pride month happy hour ideas for work
a guide to planning a great pride happy hour
This article will feature a step-by-step guide to hosting a great Pride-themed virtual happy hour with activities, games, cocktail recipes, and trivia!
A virtual happy hour is a great choice if you are looking to host a Pride team-building event this June. Happy hours are fun, easy, and highly engaging experiences and an awesome way to celebrate Pride with your virtual team! So, come up with a date, and time and schedule it in the calendar. Send your team a custom invite and get ready to build out your happy hour experience.
1. Plan Your Event
KraftyLab’s mixology experience is a highly-customizable session, and the perfect way to teach your team a brand new skill, give them an opportunity to make delicious themed drinks and learn some party tricks that will impress their friends and family in the future. Now, before we get to the fun stuff, here are some tips to plan your session:
Build A Playlist: Set the scene with a high-energy and fun playlist full of classic LGBT+ anthems and hits like Y.M.C.A, Dancing Queen, Born This Way, Vogue, and many more. Invite your team to send along their favorite work-appropriate songs and build your playlist!
Check out KraftyLab’s Pride Anthem playlist here.
Virtual Decorations: Encourage your team to display any pride flags they may own, or use a fun Pride-themed filter or background during your video call. This may be a great way to discuss the evolution of the Pride flag, its history, and current versions like the Progress Pride Flag.
Provide Resources: Prior to the event, compile some resources for your team on LGBT+ history and activism, as well as current issues. Team members can choose to look through this in their own time, and expand their knowledge and understanding on LGBT+ topics.
2. Choose Your Cocktails
To help your team enjoy their mixology session, you should send a mixology kit with some core components like a cocktail shaker, strainer, stirrer, and ingredients to make some delicious drinks. When choosing your drinks, be wise and try to pick similar ingredient cocktails, so participants only have to find a limited amount of ingredients. Check out three great Pride drink ideas:
Rainbow Paradise is a layered drink made from pineapple juice, coconut-flavored rum, grenadine, and blue curaçao.
Taste The Rainbow is a layered drink made with peach schnapps, pineapple juice, and blue curaçao.
Rainbow Shooters are impressive-looking shots made with coconut rum, blue raspberry vodka, pineapple juice, and blue curaçao.
3. Add Some Snacks
To elevate your happy hour session, why not include some snacks from queer-owned brands? This way, you can provide your team with some tasty treats and support a small business!
Cowgirl Creamery is a lesbian-owned cheese company that operates from California, operating creameries, retail stores, restaurants, and online shops. Their corporate gift-giving guide makes choosing the right package so easy!
Wunderkeks is a gay-owned cookie empire run by a married couple from Guatemala. They specialize in best-selling cookies and brownies that are shipped right to your door, and their care packages offer a delicious sampler for your team!
CoolHaus is a queer-woman-owned ice cream business offering dairy and non-dairy ice cream sandwiches, cones, pines, and cups online, in ice cream trucks and retailers all over the US.
4. Have Fun Through Playing: pride month trivia
Add a fun layer of excitement and competition through a fun game of Pride team trivia. You will be able to test your team’s Pride Month knowledge and all things LGBT+ history, pop culture, icons, and more.
Q1. How many colors did the original pride flag have?
8
5
6
Q2. Who organized the first Pride event?
Marsha P Johnson
Sylvia Rivera
Brenda Howard
Q3. Which country was the first to recognize same-sex marriage?
Holland
Germany
The Netherlands
Q4. In which city did the Stonewall Riots break out in 1969?
Chicago
New York
San Francisco
Q5. What year did same-sex marriage become legal nationwide in the US?
2011
2015
2018
Q6. Which gay comedian’s character in a 90s sitcom came out on television after coming out in real life?
Wanda Sykes
Ellen DeGeneres
Rosie O’Donnell
Q7. What are the respective experts from Queer Eye known as?
The Queer Five
The Five Guys
The Fab Five
Q8. What ground-breaking musical starred queer artists in NYC at the time of the HIV/AIDS outbreak?
Rent
Chicago
Wicked
Q9. Drag queens have become a global phenomenon thanks to which groundbreaking artist?
Bianca Del Rio
Sasha Velour
RuPaul
Q10. Will and Grace are often regarded as the first major successful show with leading gay characters. Where was the show set?
Atlanta
Los Angeles
New York
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