Pride Month: speakers, programming & vendors for ERGs services for ERGs.
Pride Month is the annual June observance commemorating the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City and celebrating LGBTQ+ identity, history, and continuing civil rights work.
Pride Month runs the full month of June, marking the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. For ERG leaders, it's a planning window for visibility, community, and care — a chance to celebrate LGBTQ+ colleagues and the history the month is built on.
All LVMH Pride ERGs Unite for Global Pride Marches
More than a calendar moment.
June marks the anniversary of Stonewall (June 28, 1969), a foundational moment in modern LGBTQ+ history. The first Pride march followed one year later in New York — that lineage is part of the programming.
For ERG leaders, the work is twofold: celebrate the full LGBTQ+ spectrum (including trans, non-binary, ace, and intersex members), and support colleagues with programming, community, and resources they can actually use.
What follows is the planning architecture: speakers, vendors, programming ideas, and a 6-week timeline — for ERG leaders building a month with both joy and substance.
The Pride pitfalls.
What sinks Pride programming isn't usually a missing speaker — it's a misread of the moment. The three misses worth naming out loud.
Logo-deep Pride.
Members notice when the logo changes June 1 and there's no programming, no budget, and no ERG involvement behind it. Make sure the internal experience matches the external posts.
Centering only cis gay men.
‘LGBTQ+' is not interchangeable with ‘gay.' Build programming with trans, non-binary, bisexual, asexual, intersex, and queer-of-color voices at the center, not the closing slot.
Forgetting community over spectacle.
The most-remembered Pride moments tend to be the small ones — a member-led history session, a quiet coffee meetup, a written shout-out from a leader. Big spectacle is optional; community is the point.
Curated for Pride Month.
Speakers, facilitators, and vendors filtered for Pride programming. Pulled live from ERGs.io — every profile is one click away from a full bio, rate, and inquiry form inside the platform.
Chris Rollins
Discover Live
Gretchen DeKnikker
Haley Moss
Saria Hawkins-Banda
Training Concepts Consulting
Real Pride programming ideas from ERGs.io.
A few of the most-favorited Pride Month ideas ERG leaders are running this year. Open ERGs.io to browse the full library — filtered, saveable, and bookable with vendors.
Other observances in the calendar.
Every observance gets its own planning page — speakers, vendors, programming ideas, and a timeline.
Stop scrambling. Start planning the month that lands.
ERGs.io pulls every speaker, vendor, and programming format into one workspace — so planning Pride takes one afternoon, not one month of late nights. Free to start.