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Pink Media’s new LGBTQ+ Dallas Region Guide maps the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex — Oak Lawn and the Strip on Cedar Springs, a perfect equality score built at City Hall, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ fundraiser, and Visit Dallas’s year-round LGBTQ+ welcome.

Leather Pride’s VALHALLA, The Cowgays, Aubrey O’Day and a 40th anniversary parade led by Fortune Feimster and Cheyenne Jackson. Here’s how to plan Palm Springs Pride 2026 with Gay Desert Guide’s Pride Planner.

A new Quebec campaign from Conseil québécois LGBT and Publicis Montréal opens on the LGBTQ+ topics that so often get pulled into political debate, then turns to housing, healthcare and the cost of living. It’s called “Remettons les débats à leur place” (Let’s Put the Debates Where They Belong). It also includes a book of short stories by LGBTQ+ authors, sent to every newly elected member of Quebec’s National Assembly. For brands, the takeaway is relevance: LGBTQ+ consumers are also renters, homeowners, parents, patients and travelers.

Brad Fuhr has been building LGBTQ+ media since the ’90s, and in Palm Springs he built the media the community needed: Gay Desert Guide in 2013, then KGAY, which he bought to keep it in LGBTQ+ hands. Now on 103.1 FM with 200,000+ monthly streaming listeners, KGAY is what our Palm Springs Regional Guide means by “start with the local media anchor.” Following this week’s Los Angeles Blade profile, we look at what his story says about owned media, why relying on one platform is risky, and how to reach the desert ahead of Pride’s 40th year.

The cradle of the civil rights movement is also the capital of Black queer America. Atlanta hosts the world’s largest Black Pride, with 100,000+ people every Labor Day. Atlanta Pride brings in about 350,000 each October. And Atlanta has held a perfect HRC equality score for more than a decade, the only Georgia city to do so, in a state with no LGBTQ+ civil-rights law and a brand-new religious-exemption law. Our new LGBTQ+ Atlanta Region Guide maps all of it: a media market two layers deep, the HIV response at the center of the country’s epidemic, a tourism board that markets through the community’s own newspaper, and a fall season the guide calls the best Q4 LGBTQ+ inventory in the country.

New York has Stonewall. Los Angeles has almost everything that came before it: the Mattachine Society in 1950, ONE magazine in 1953, the Black Cat protests in 1967, and the world’s first permitted Pride parade down Hollywood Boulevard in 1970. Our new LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Region Guide looks at the other capital of queer America. It covers the world’s largest LGBTQ+ organization, three perfect equality scores across the county, three Prides in five weeks, and a media scene that shapes how LGBTQ+ people appear on screens everywhere. The main lesson for brands: WeHo is famous, but a real L.A. plan covers the whole county, and in a majority-Latino county it has to be bilingual.

Roughly 750,000 LGBTQ+ adults live in New York — the largest community in the country, spread across five boroughs with five different Prides, their own institutions and their own press. Our new LGBTQ+ New York Region Guide maps all of it: the century of history still standing on Christopher Street, the shield laws that made the state a deliberate refuge, the two layers of media that live in the same zip codes and do completely different jobs, and the organizations that built the movement and still run it. The takeaway for brands is the uncomfortable one: in a market where a perfect equality score is the least interesting fact, the differentiation isn’t the parade — it’s what you fund and how long you stay.

America’s first gay-rights organization was chartered in Chicago in 1924 — decades before Stonewall. A century later the city runs the country’s first officially designated gay district, the Midwest’s largest LGBTQ+ community center and health system, and sits in the one state sheltering the middle of the map. That’s the argument in our new LGBTQ+ Chicago Region Guide: a Chicago buy is really a six-state buy, reaching visitors, weekenders and new arrivals from across the heartland. Inside — the refuge-state math, a nonprofit newsroom where buying queer media builds queer media, why covering both Halsted Street and the South Side is non-negotiable, and a calendar with Pride-scale moments in August and September, not just June.

Brands spent three years pulling back from Pride, but the smartest ones didn’t leave — they decentralized. On the debut of #ILoveGay Views, Dana Piccoli of News Is Out walks through what’s working: Lime’s Pride in Motion partnering with local Prides in 21+ cities, Levi’s Together We Ride built with the GLBT Historical Society alongside a $100,000 gift to Outright International, and AARP’s Out and Aging series funding original reporting across a dozen queer newsrooms. The LGBTQ+ Media Mapping Project adds the number every planner needs: 18 U.S. states have no LGBTQ+ media outlet at all, and nearly half of existing outlets run on less than $100,000 a year. The takeaway for 2027: hyper-local isn’t a consolation prize, it’s the more durable and defensible version of LGBTQ+ marketing.