This community gave the broader LGBTQ+ world its marches, its language, and its music — and has been under-served by the rainbow economy it built. A New Black Renaissance is on. Reach the Black LGBTQ+ community where it actually is — the Black Pride circuit, the South, the culture's own creators. Partner with Pink Media for the most comprehensive yet targeted reach into the most influential, least-invested-in market in the series.
The Opportunity
There are a variety of ways in which we can help you reach the Black LGBTQ+ community — from the Black Pride circuit travelers and the Southern majority to the parenting families, ballroom and nightlife culture, the professionals and entrepreneurs, and Black trans communities. Partner with Pink Media for the most comprehensive yet targeted reach into the highly-coveted LGBTQ+ consumer, with a focus on the QPOC / African-American community. This audience audits brands on both racial-equity and LGBTQ+ records — the double receipts — and the culture credit is checked: who cites, compensates, and hires the culture's originators, and who just samples them.
First, we focus on getting your brand out to a hyper-targeted audience online — and because ethnicity can't be targeted directly, we target honestly: Black entertainment, media, and cultural-affinity signals layered onto LGBTQ+ inventory (display, mobile, and video), geo-targeted to the ZIP code, with CTV via ACR. Second, we run share-of-voice social, ensuring your brand is present in the community's own conversations. Third, we curate and amplify UGC — the culture's own creators and community moments — with your brand at the table, credited and compensated, not sampling.
This includes our #ILoveGay Network, now reaching over 1.5 million LGBTQ+ followers, plus Black Pride circuit and host-hotel campaigns around DC, Atlanta, and the Center for Black Equity's 30+ city calendar. Our success metrics are based on the visibility and performance we provide: impressions, reach, click-throughs, and engagement.
Our Campaign Framework
A comprehensive strategy that reaches the Black LGBTQ+ community through interest-based advertising, social share-of-voice, AND curated UGC amplification — simultaneously, with the culture credited.
Ethnicity can't be targeted directly, so we target honestly — Black entertainment, media, and cultural-affinity signals layered onto LGBTQ+ programmatic inventory (display, mobile, video), geo-targeted to the ZIP code across the Southern and metro concentrations, with CTV via ACR.
We keep your brand present in the community's own conversations — organically and through paid amplification via our #ILoveGay network — across Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, X and more, plus Black Pride circuit and heritage-moment activation.
The culture's own content: Black queer creators, ballroom talent, and community moments, curated and shared with your brand credited and compensated — plus sponsorship-with-presence at DC Black Pride, Atlanta, and the CBE circuit, and #ILoveGay Today interviews.
The Data Behind the Market
A snapshot of the diversity and ethnicity data Pink Media layers onto LGBTQ+ inventory to reach the Black LGBTQ+ community with precision — honestly, by interest and cultural affinity.
Diversity & ethnicity in-market signals. Black cultural-affinity and multicultural audience data — the honest, indirect approach that reaches the QPOC community by interest and culture, geo-targeted to the ZIP code.
The community that built the culture, and a New Black Renaissance. Our editorial summary covers the history, the Williams Institute and Black LGBTQ Community Survey data, Black Prides worldwide (DC, Atlanta, the CBE network), ballroom's global century, the organizations (NBJC, Black AIDS Institute), health equity, and the marketing best practices — with a full report available to buy or subscribe.
Targeting Capabilities
Pink Media's programmatic QPOC targeting platform comes ready with built-in features that go far beyond standard LGBTQ+ advertising.
Black entertainment, media, and cultural-affinity signals layered onto LGBTQ+ inventory — the honest, indirect approach to reach by culture.
Target and report by any region — the DMV, Atlanta, Houston, the Carolinas — down to ZIP code, where the Williams data puts the population.
Sponsorship, host-hotel, and destination activation around DC, Atlanta, and the Center for Black Equity's 30+ city calendar.
Built-in campaign feature to adhere to the Digital Advertising Alliance's (DAA) rules & regulations — compliant by default.
The Data & the Community Research
A snapshot from the Williams Institute and the Black LGBTQ Community Survey — a market that punches far above its media budget.
Growing fastest in Gen Z — the most racially diverse queer cohort ever measured (Williams).
Of Black same-sex couples — among the highest rates of any group, and nationwide.
Of same-sex couples with a Black partner — vs. 19% of different-sex couples.
Of Black adults in DC identify as LGBT — the highest; Southern states dominate the top ten.
Sources: the Black LGBTQ Community Survey 2020–2021 and the CMI 12th Annual LGBTQ Community Survey (U.S. Profile) — the community datasets behind the QPOC market.
Sources: the Williams Institute (LGBT African-Americans report), the Black LGBTQ Community Survey 2020–2021, and the CMI Community Survey, as compiled in Pink Media's QPOC Market Guide. Read the summary.
Pink Media brings 30 years of LGBTQ+ marketing expertise to the QPOC / Black LGBTQ+ market — reaching the community where it actually is, the Black Pride circuit and the South, for consumer, travel, health, financial, and community brands, 24/7, 365 days per year. We work with any budget, with nonprofit and community pricing available, starting at $500 per month.
Ready to Connect?
One partner. A clear plan. Real results — cast, credited, and compensated. Tell us about your brand and audience and let's build a strategy that reaches the Black LGBTQ+ community the way it actually lives, and returns to the circuit next year.