“Is My Son Gay?” Android App Pulled After Pressure from AllOut.Org
It is not okay to stereotype people in a negative way or a way that is oppressive and ridiculing. Let people just be the way they are and don’t flaunt either way. We have more important issues to channel on social media.
Google Developers pulled controversial app after AllOut.org launched twitter campaign: “Demand that @Google & #Android dump homophobic “Is My Son #Gay?” app NOW, no excuses! #LGBT.”
At the beginning of the week, Google developers pulled the controversial “Is My Son Gay?” Android app after AllOut.Org members expressed outrage through a twitter campaign.
Hundreds of members tweeted, “Demand that @Google & #Android dump homophobic ‘Is My Son #Gay?’ app NOW, no excuses! #LGBT”. As a result the app was removed.
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