To mark the end of Pride Month in the US, Google has paid tribute to Black trans pioneer, HIV activist and Stonewall hero Marsha P. Johnson in the day’s Google Doodle. A key figure in the 1969 Stonewall riots that were a major catalyst for the momentum of LGBTIQ+ rights around the world, Johnson was […]
Members of staff for Sydney nightclub ‘The Shift Bar’ were informed by Google that their bar was ineligible for listing with Google Maps as it failed to meet company guidelines. Shift Bar staff had called the online colossus to inform Google that they had made some slight changes to the venue’s official name. The representative […]
A game available on the Google Play Store entitled ‘Ass Hunters’ has attracted controversy. The object of the game is to shoot as many gay men as possible to avoid being sexually assaulted. The rules of the game are explained on the Google Play Store: “Popular game hunting on gays is now on android! Play […]
Apple has banned a gay cure app from it’s itunes store. The ‘Setting Captives Free’ app claimed, “Despite what you may have heard elsewhere, you do not have a ‘homosexual gene,’ nor were you born this way with no hope of freedom. You can be set free from the bondage of homosexuality through the power […]
A Smartphone app designed to allegedly ‘cure’ people from the ‘bondage of homosexuality’ has appeared on both Google and Apple App stores. LGBT advocates from the ‘All Out’ organisation have called for both Google and Apple to drop the app that appeared this week. Andre Banks, Executive Director of All Out, argued the validity of a […]
Google have highlighted that today would have been gay artist Keith Harring’s fifty fourth birthday by redecorating the Google logo in the style of the artists work. Haring whose distinctive work was inspired by the street culture of New York passed away in 1990, aged just 31 of an AIDS related illness. Haring first came […]
