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Instagram Apologizes After Removing Gay Kiss Photo for ‘Violating Community Standards’
Instagram apologized after removing a photo featuring two men kissing for “violating community guidelines.”
The image, by London-based photographer Stella Asia Consonni, was featured on the cover of i-D magazine and showed Jordan Bowen and Luca Lucifer, a couple of 7 years, having a kiss.
Consonni said she received hate mail after posting the photo: “I am receiving many hate messages, saying that it’s disgusting and that I should kill myself for posting that.”
The photo was reinstated, but only after protest from high-profile British musicians Years & Years’ frontman Olly Alexander and Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall
Wrote Instagram to the photographer: “This post was removed in error and we are sorry. It has since been reinstated.
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Instagram Apologizes After Removing Gay Kiss Photo for ‘Violating Community Standards’
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