Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? at Miscellany.
My alma mater (Western University, London Ontario, Canada) felt the need to do a bit of social media clean-up as a result of complaints received over a poster that, among other images, included one of two women in hijab about to kiss.
Western University posted the image on its Instagram account Tuesday to mark the international day against homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia. The poster was removed Wednesday after numerous complaints and a petition signed by more than 32,000 people requested the social media post to be removed.
(The International Day is officially a commemoration of the 1990 decision by WHO to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder. The original … Read the rest