In July 2017 we called out Facebook for banning lesbians when they referred to themselves as “dykes.” Just last month we uncovered that Facebook was giving a platform to neo-Nazi clothing brands, allowing them to sell their wares on its pages, and also that Facebook had been targeting LGBTQ youth with ads for conversion therapy.Ĭlearly, disappointment in Facebook by the LGBTQ community is of course nothing new.
Last September we reported that the influential social network made over $750,000 in donations to anti-gay political groups. Even the ACLU spoke out against the platform, saying, “More needs to be done. Users need a meaningful, robust right to appeal the removal of any post - and before it is removed.” If the image had depicted a man and a woman kissing - or even two femme women kissing - would it have been removed? Likely not.īack in April, the nearly complete “Facebook community standards guide” was published for all to see, and it left us at Hornet scratching our collective head at some of the decisions therein. It’s not unusual for queer men to stumble across posts about Facebook removing images of two men kissing. The centerfold depicts him fully nude, splayed atop a bear skin rug with a cigarette in his mouth and his forearm covering “the goods.”Īs many in the LGBTQ community are particularly well aware, Facebook has long had serious issues with the enforcement of its “community standards” on the platform. He has since come out to say he was embarrassed by the now-iconic Burt Reynolds centerfold because it made him look like an “egomaniac,” but he’s also said that at the time he didn’t really have any qualms about participating in the shoot. And he has Cosmopolitan magazine to thank for it. Though he became an on-screen star in the late ’70s and ’80s and his work speaks for itself, it was the early 1970s - 1972, to be exact - when Burt Reynolds became an international sex symbol. The death was announced by the actor’s manager Reynolds reportedly passed away at Jupiter Medical Center in Florida. But to add insult to injury, when many decided to pay tribute to the Hollywood star and sex symbol by sharing an image of the iconic 1972 Burt Reynolds centerfold by Cosmopolitan magazine - an image of the actor sprawled out on a bear skin rug that contains no actual nudity - social media platform Facebook removed the image and banned some users for sharing it.īurt Reynolds starred in films including Deliverance, Smokey and the Bandit, Boogie Nights (for which he won an Oscar) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, which he starred in beside country music legend Dolly Parton. Much of the world was sad to hear that actor Burt Reynolds passed away yesterday at the age of 82 from cardiac arrest.
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