Facebook legalizes gay marriage

Same-sex couples now have special icons to illustrate their marriage. Homosexuality is gaining a growing place in the new media.

A new wind of tolerance is blowing among the guarantors of morality 2.0.

Facebook, which censors the smallest square centimeter of nipple so as not to offend the sensitivity of its users, takes a step in favor of homosexual couples. Since this weekend, they feature custom icons (man-man, woman-woman), to illustrate their wedding.

Awarded for his commitment

so far, they had to content themselves in their Timeline with the straight pictogram. According to the specialized site Mashable, this novelty appeared for the first time on Saturday on the profile of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes on the occasion of his marriage to his companion Chris Eldridge. Courtesy of Mark Zuckerberg, social network boss, who has «liked» the statute.

Facebook has been advocating for gay rights on the internet for a while now.. Since February 2011, couples have can choose between «wedding» et «Pacs» to specify the nature of their union. This commitment has also earned the social network this year a prize awarded by the «Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation».

Apple comes out of the closet

The discourse is also changing at Apple. So far Apple has been playing the political correctness card, redacting sex-explicit apps from the App Store. The apple firm is no longer afraid to shock conservative American families, committed to a straight vision of marriage. The next version of iOS should indeed integrate emoticons for gays and lesbians, according to the Techcrunch website.

Along with the traditional «smiley», hearts and stars, same-sex couples will appear. For the emoticon representing the family, on the other hand, we remain in the classic (dad+mom+child).

Will American conservative families boycott the apple firm for this visibility given to homosexuality? The ability to marry between people of the same sex in the online game «Star Wars: The Old Republic» had caused a wave of indignation in their ranks and an avalanche of indignant letters to the publisher of the game.

Things are changing in the United States, and homosexuality is gaining a growing place in the new media. The movement even seems to be accelerating, since Barack Obama came out in favor of same-sex marriage.

As if the presidential guarantee legitimized small innovations which waited quietly in the drawers of the developers.

 

source http://www.lematin.ch By Simon Koch