Facebook Adds New Timeline Icons For Married Same Sex Couples

Take THAT AFA, NOM and all you other weasels out there. It’s over, we have been assimilated. If Facebook does it, there is NO going back. From the GLADD website-

Facebook has rolled out a new feature providing additional recognition for its users who are married to a person of the same sex. Now these users who have indicated on their Facebook timeline that they are married will be recognized by new same-sex marriage icons, rather than the marriage icon used for straight married couples.

This change follows several notable LGBT inclusion efforts by Facebook. Last year, Facebook added ‘In a Civil Union’ and ‘In a Domestic Partnership’ options to user profiles. Facebook has also taken significant steps toward preventing anti-LGBT bullying, and created the Network of Support with GLAAD and other LGBT organizations in 2010.

  • Squatlo

    I divorced FaceBook about two years ago, and don’t miss that banal time-suck in the least.  However, I was happy to see the Pride Month Oreo Cookie page, and these little relationship icons are cool, too.

    Rest assured, there will be some tight asses out there who will drop their accounts because of this, or perhaps “unfriend” those who use those symbols.  But slowly, surely, and without question, the troglodytes, mouth-breathers, and knuckle-draggers of society are going to eventually come around or die out.

    Baby steps, I guess.  But really, what’s the big deal?