After Pride: What Comes Next for LGBTQ+ Business Leaders

After Pride: The Real Work Begins

Mobilizing LGBTQ+ Business Power in the AI Era

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Pride Month has always been a time to reflect, celebrate, and be seen. But once the floats roll away and the hashtags fade, what happens next?

If you’re serious about LGBTQ+ economic empowerment, visibility alone isn’t enough. We need a strategy. Ownership. Systems. Execution.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve explored the power of business ownership, the four core challenges LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs face, and the opportunities available to those ready to scale. Let’s pull it all together to wind this month down with pride and power as we forge ahead into a new frontier together.

🙅🏽 Pride Is Not a Marketing Moment & Remains a Movement

Up until last year, it was starting to feel like Pride had lost its meaning and a certain edge, becoming reduced to rainbows and corporate sponsorships. Good, bad, or ugly, those days are fading fast.

My take is too many brands treated Pride like a costume. Slap a bunch of pride flags somewhere, change that logo rainbow for the month, throw some money at the local pride organizers, and cash in. And as we’ve seen lately, for many of them, we’ve fallen out of fashion as they scale back or exit because they’d rather kneel to a certain someone than stand tall with us. That’s okay. Let them fall off, we’ll take the hit. Message heard, lout and clear! We’re awake again and focused on something bigger: building a movement rooted in resilience, creativity, and collective economic power so we never have to feel this sense of whiplash again.

Pride is a reminder of how far we’ve come, but also that representation is just the floor. Not the ceiling. We don’t just want to be seen. We want to level the playing field. To correct disparities. To claim ownership. To lead. The era of nicely asking for breadcrumbs is over.

Business ownership is one of the most direct paths to freedom. It lets us control our narrative, define our income, and reinvest in our people. And that only works when we build businesses that are designed to weather any storm, and when we come together as a community to support one another in good times and bad. Shop local, buy local vibes for our community, adapted to the digital age.

⚡️ LGBTQ+ Entrepreneurs Are Power Players in the Making

Many of us are already out here hustling with so much more of our collective potential still untapped. LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs are so creative, resilient, and community-driven. Unfrotunately, for some the barriers to entry or growth remain stubbronly high. Many of the systems are still stacked. And for many others, the idea of launching or scaling a business feels exhausting, isolating, or just plain out of reach with the added complexities of being part of our alphabet mafia while navigating a world largely designed by and for our straight companions.

So to those solo providers, small teams, and traditional storefront SBOs out there hustling, I commend you and encourage you to keep pushing forward. We need you now more than ever. To those who haven’t taken the leap yet but want to, you’re not alone and encourge you to seize the moment. Because we won’t build the kind of generational community wealth we need to claim our space at every table — in every industry, across every region without you.

Forming a thriving, interconnected network of LGBTQ+ business owners, experts, and leaders who have each other’s backs is going to be a game changer. A culture of collaboration with one another that allows us to be stronger competitors in our respective arenas . One where we elevate each other and grow together.

It starts with performance-driven strategies that reflect our values, systems that scale sustainably, and smart tools (including AI) that help us punch above our weight individually and collaborate collectively like never before. Its time that we create our own ‘old boys’ network’. The LGBTQ siblinghood? We’ll think of a name. Anyways, we can do it as long as we move together.

‼ We Must Seize this Moment

Whether you’re just starting out or stepping into your next level — what you do now matters, so Don’t Let the Pride Stop Here! Pride Month might be coming to a close, but our work is only the beginning. If you’re ready to:

• Build a sustainable income as your authentic self
• Expand your impact and influence, or
• Grow a values-aligned team that reflects your mission

…this is your moment. The time between now and the end of the year can shape your next chapter.

Pride is a celebration. But the renaissance of queer resilience through new, faster-growing, and better connected business ownership is the best solution to securing our seat at the table now and forever.

When you’re ready, let’s turn your ideas into real, sustainable income. On your timeline. On your terms. I’m here to help you launch with clarity and grow with strategy. And if you’re simply here to read, cheer others on, or take things in at your own pace — that’s more than welcome too. We need all forms of participation.

When LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs rise, we don’t just build businesses. We build power.

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