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11/02/2026

We explore how Pink Media has shifted its focus over the last three decades, growing from the founding of GayWired.com in the mid 90s to our current work helping brands connect with a targeted LGBTQ+ audience online. Matt provides a look at the company trajectory and the strategies required to remain effective in a changing digital landscape.

10/28/2026

Vikings, Cowgays and a 40th Birthday Parade: Your Palm Springs Pride 2026 Story

Two back-to-back celebrations, eleven days, one desert. Here’s how Palm Springs Leather Pride and the 40th Palm Springs Pride play out, and how to plan it all with Gay Desert Guide’s Pride Planner.

https://ilovegay.net/vikings-cowgays-and-a-40th-birthday-parade-your-palm-springs-pride-2026-story/

10/28/2026

Forty-eight hours in Big D, from a retro Oak Lawn breakfast to a nightcap in a century-old schoolhouse, with a lot of Texas in between.

https://ilovegay.net/two-steps-drag-and-banana-pancakes-a-perfect-lgbtq-weekend-in-dallas/

09/10/2026

Cape Town Hosts WorldPride in 2028 — So Why Doesn't Safari Marketing Ever Show Two Grooms?
Zannon James of Mason & Wild Luxury Safaris asked a question on LinkedIn this week that the travel industry has been avoiding: why is Africa still so absent from the LGBTQ+ travel conversation? His answer points straight at the imagery — safari marketing sells honeymoons and romantic escapes constantly, but almost never shows two men or two women. Meanwhile South Africa hits twenty years of marriage equality this November, has held the world's oldest constitutional protection for sexual orientation since 1996, was just voted the top LGBTQ+ city destination of 2026 — and Cape Town hosts WorldPride in 2028. That's an underserved destination category with a hard deadline attached, and roughly two years to build an audience before the spotlight arrives. Our full read on what that means for destinations, operators and brands.
https://ilovegay.net/cape-town-hosts-worldpride-in-2028-so-why-doesnt-safari-marketing-ever-show-two-grooms/

09/08/2026

In May 2026, Destinations International and IGLTA released Why Values Matter: A Destination Guide to LGBTQ+ Travelers — a genuinely strong, research-backed framework built on Valuegraphics work with more than 1,800 LGBTQ+ travelers, organized around three power values: Harmony, Health & Well-Being, and Balance. It's free, it's good, and it just landed in front of 800+ member destinations. Here's the part that keeps me up at night: step one of the five-step framework is "strengthen marketing representation" — which quietly assumes you have somewhere to run that marketing. Most destinations don't. Meta removed sexual-orientation interest targeting in 2022, and Google's ad policy names "gay travel" as a category where you can't even use your own customer list. So we now have a market where LGBTQ+ travel strategy is abundant and free, while channel access is scarce and getting scarcer. Matt Skallerud of Pink Media on the ex*****on gap between the playbook and the media plan — and the five things a destination has to build to close it.

https://pinkmedia.lgbt/blog/dmo-lgbtq-strategy-ex*****on-gap-2026.html

09/06/2026

Inclusion Just Became Auditable.
Australia folded LGBTQ+ readiness into its national tourism standard. That's a bigger deal than the badge on the window.

For twenty-five years, "are you LGBTQ+ friendly?" has been a question with no checkable answer. Australia just gave it one. The Australian Tourism Industry Council has folded Rainbow Ready Accreditation into its national Quality Tourism Framework — five assessment areas covering policy, operations, physical environment and marketing, guest information and staff training — co-developed with academics from Charles Sturt, the University of Queensland and Monash, and free for operators already holding Sustainable Tourism Accreditation. Matt Skallerud of Pink Media on why the structure matters more than the badge: this isn't a rainbow sticker program, it's LGBTQ+ readiness written into the same standard that governs everything else. Certification tells you who's ready. Networks like GALTA and Visit Gay Australia are how travellers find them. US destinations: this question is coming to your next RFP.

https://pinkmedia.lgbt/blog/rainbow-ready-accreditation-australia-2026.html

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