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Apple Adds Gay And Lesbian Couples To iOS 6 Emoticons

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by Andrew Belonsky
June 14, 2012 | 11:24am

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Apple's new iPhone operating system is LGBT-inclusive.

Via Gizmodo:

The new version of Apple's iPhone operating system comes with new emojis, the popular emoticons that are often used in texting and email, especially by young kids and nerdy adults like me. Two of these new pictograms represent gay and lesbian couples for the first time.

The icons are placed next to the previous relationship-related emojis showing a heterosexual couple holding hands and a heterosexual couple with a son. One shows two men holding hands. The other shows two women in the same position.

Gizmodo's Jesus Diaz wonders if these same-sex couples will have babies by the time iOS 7 comes out. And, if so, will anti-gay activists toss their iPhones en masse?

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Posted June 14, 2012 at 11:24am ETC by Andrew Belonsky
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