Airbnb Made a Simply Brilliant Product to Protest Australia's Lack of Marriage Equality

A ring that's incomplete for a reason

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Some design projects are so amazingly simple and on point, you wonder why no one thought of them earlier. Case in point in this Airbnb campaign, in which the hospitality brand is protesting the ongoing lack of marriage equality in Australia—by marketing a ring that’s incomplete.

The gap in the ring, of course, represents the gap in marriage equality. Airbnb is encouraging people to wear the ring, which it’s calling The Acceptance Ring, as a way of showing acceptance of marriage equality—and support for those Australians who cannot yet marry.

The campaign is called “Until

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