Facebookers Urged To 'Post Gay Kiss Pictures'
23 June 2011 08:56LGBT activists across the world are furious following an allegation that Facebook has banned pictures of same-sex kisses. This emerged following a blog post on the website ‘Dangerous minds’, and follows last week’s furore with the John Snow pub in Soho, where Jonathan Williams, 26 and Jamie Bull, 23, were asked to leave for kissing.
'Dangerous Minds’ editor Richard Metzger wrote on Saturday that a picture of two men kissing, had been removed from Facebook “because it violated Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities”.
Facebook went on to say that posts “that contain nudity, or any kind of graphic or sexually suggestive content, are not permitted on Facebook”, despite the couple being fully-clothed.
As a result of this, a campaign has begun to encourage people to change their Facebook profile pictures to pictures of same-sex couples kissing in order to challenge attitudes that there could ever be anything wrong with this.
Commenting on behalf of LGBTory, the Conservative LGBT group, Chairman Matthew Sephton, said:
“I find these allegations very worrying indeed. They suggest that there is somehow something inappropriate or wrong about two people of the same sex showing affection for each other by kissing or being seen kissing. This is wholly unacceptable and Facebook need to explain themselves as a matter of priority.”
