In a post earlier this month on the Google+ home for Life at Google, the company spoke up about its involvement in LGBT Pride Month.
From Silicon Valley LGBTQ mixers to Hangouts with Google Executives, planning a successful Google Pride is about more than coordinating the colors of the rainbow.
Gayglers from all departments of Google formed sub-committees to discuss budget, plan events, order schwag and advertise Pride while keeping an eye on the prize: ensuring the messages of diversity, inclusion and pride are central themes throughout it all.
Unfortunate nickname of Gayglers aside, Google has long been a supporter of LGBT rights. For instance, last year, the company created a campaign called Legalize Love in which Google helps to facilitate the creation of rights for LGBT people around the world.
At Google, we encourage people to bring their whole selves to work. In our more than 70 offices around the world, we’re committed to cultivating a work environment where Googlers can be themselves and thrive. Legalise Love is our drive to ensure that all of our employees have the same inclusive experience outside of the office as they do at work.
One of those rights that Legalise Love strives to make recognized is marriage equality, and today, that becomes closer to the norm for the U.S as the Defense of Marriage Act and Prop 8 saw defeat in California.
Capping all of this off is an Easter egg that Google has put in place for any LGBT-related searches online using its search engine. The search results appear in a specially-designed, rainbow-accented search bar as displayed in the image above.
LGBT Pride Month takes place in June as a way to commemorate the Stonewall riots, which happened at the end of June 1969.
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