She & HER is the platform built for and centering the sapphic community — sapphic: women who love women, wlw. This is what we've already done, who we've done it with, and what we'd bring to a She & HER × Parlor partnership — starting in Houston.
Ninety seconds to judge feasibility. Everything after this section is the case.
Thirty minutes with Parlor leadership to scope She & HER as the curation partner for Parlor's LGBTQ lane — with Houston, Shayla's host city and our home base, as the first market.
Two weeks ago we were on the ground in New York as an Official 2026 Sponsor of NYC Pride. Not a rendering. Not a deck. A weekend that ran.
June 26–28, NYC Pride weekend: the She & HER Influencer Pit at the VIP center of the action, The Powder Room — our styled VIP activation, built with brand partners including Glossier — and a content operation photographing all of it. Here's the weekend through our photographer's lens.
Everything on this page was shot in a single day of the sponsorship — the kind of coverage the Houston lane inherits on day one.
Partnerships aren't a slide for us — they're the operating model. A sample of what's signed, live, and in motion.
Official 2026 Sponsor (Heritage of Pride). VIP Pit branding, styled VIP activation, and a content operation across Pride weekend — plus an invitation to NYC Pride Tech Week this October.
Field Partner at the largest Black tech conference in the country — hosted in Houston this year. Programming, an on-floor presence, and a national audience landing in our home city.
Houston's only lesbian bar and a direct She & HER affiliate — a year-round, community-native venue relationship. Our Houston ground game doesn't start from zero; it starts from Pearl.
Fashion + beauty partners in motion — Valencia, Wear Ski, and others in conversation — under a coalition model where every sponsor clears our community red-flag list before they touch a room.
Parlor built the harder half — a vetted membership, a personalized interest model, rooms worth dressing for. We bring the layer that makes the LGBTQ lane real.
We're not arriving in Houston. We're already there — and so are you.
Shayla is already Parlor's Houston host — the market is opened, the member base is hers to know. What Houston's calendar doesn't have yet is curated LGBTQ programming. That's the open lane.
She & HER is built out of Houston — founder included. Pearl Bar gives us a year-round community venue. The network isn't a plan; it's where we live.
AfroTech lands in Houston Nov 2–6 with a national Black tech audience — the same window our app enters beta. Houston programming that fall inherits both waves.
We're deliberately not pitching a pre-baked event. The right first Houston moment is a thirty-minute conversation — your read on the membership, our read on the community, one calendar.
Pride was the proof, not the premise. The prize is year-round — an LGBTQ lane on Parlor that runs in February as confidently as it runs in June.
Houston-built founder with 15+ years in machine learning across Google, Microsoft, and Cambridge. Built She & HER as the platform for and centering the sapphic community — find your human. Led the NYC Pride 2026 sponsorship and activation end to end.
Designer and stylist with ~53K cross-platform reach — and your Houston host. She brings the cultural read on what works inside a Parlor room and the styling moments that make each event photograph correctly.
Shayla's existing Parlor host calendar is independent of this work. She & HER engages her on the partnership side; her relationship with Parlor as a host continues exactly as it is. Any question about how the two dovetail, we'll talk through with you directly — on your timeline, before anything signs.
We'd love to walk this with you — anyone on your side it should include. We'll bring the NYC Pride recap in full, the sponsor pipeline, and our read on what a Houston lane looks like. No pressure on the room; just the receipts, the model, and a conversation.
