Google has quietly removed cultural observances like Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and Pride Month from its calendar app.
For years, Google’s online and mobile calendars automatically marked the start of Black History Month in February, Women’s History Month in March, and Pride Month in June. But as of 2025, those references are gone.
The tech giant has also erased Holocaust Remembrance Day, Hispanic Heritage Month, Indigenous Peoples’ Month, and Jewish Heritage Month, as first reported by The Verge.
Google users protested the calendar changes, with many accusing the tech company of trying to curry favor with Trump.
“Anyone know a good search engine that isn’t so frightened of pumpkin head that it removes black history month from its calendar? Or reinvents the name of a bit of the sea? Shame on #Google,” one user wrote.
“Calendar used to capitulate to fascism,” another wrote on Google’s Calendar Help page. “This is shameful. Reinstate these calendar dates!!!”
“These bootlickers have immediately shown us who they are. I thought I was the only one who noticed! Let’s spread the word! Google are Nazi sympathizers.”
Another user pointed out, “Is it just me, or are white, non-Jewish, heterosexual men the only people who seem to matter to this f**ked-up regime?”
@tymachantee Man we have to stick together #fy #google #dei #googlecalendar #trump ♬ original sound – TYMA♈️????️
Google spokesperson Madison Cushman Veld addressed the controversy, explaining that the changes were part of a broader policy update in mid-2024.
“For over a decade, we’ve worked with timeanddate.com to show public holidays and national observances on Google Calendar. Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world,” Veld said in a statement to USA TODAY.
She also cited challenges in maintaining consistency across countries as the reason for scaling back.
“We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable,” she continued.
“So, in mid-2024, we returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com globally while allowing users to manually add other important moments.”
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According to Newsweek, Google donated $1 million to Trump’s 2025 inauguration, and its CEO, Sundar Pichai, attended the ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 21.
Less than a week later, on Jan. 27, Google announced it would update its maps system to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, following an executive order from Trump.
The company also reinstated Mount McKinley as the name of Alaska’s highest peak, reversing its previous recognition of the Indigenous name Denali.
Cathy Renna, director of communications for the National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund, condemned the move, calling it “another egregious example of companies caving to the biased and exclusionary attacks of the Trump administration.”
“One of this country’s greatest strengths is its diversity—and the rise of Christian nationalism, white supremacy, and political leaders strong-arming this kind of exclusion should alarm all of us,” she continued.
“Google is just one of several companies caving to pressure and acting against the values of their workers and customer base. Google will be on the wrong side of history for this and any other actions that bow to the extremism of the Trump administration. Fair-minded people who understand the reality and value of diversity will stand with those companies who will not give in to hate and exclusion.”
