YouTube
released a moving #ProudToBe new video celebrating Pride yesterday (27 June).
YouTube
Spotlight launched this video as part of the campaign and already has more
than 3 million hits on YouTube.
The video features
famous LGBTI YouTubers, clips of viral videos including Rachel Evan Woods,
Human Rights Campaign, LGBTI marches, and clips of same-sex parents with their
children.ru
It also
includes Peppermint and Shea from the recent season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, as well
as RuPaul himself.
‘It’s so
important that we keep fighting for the right to be who we are. The right to
love whoever we we want to love’, is one of the testimonies you’ll hear
throughout the two-minute video.
The video was
targeted by numerous homophobic, biphobic and transphobic comments, receiving
over 150,000 downvotes.
If you’ve
visited YouTube, you’ll also see there is a Pride flag waving right next to
their name.
YouTube still
hasn’t removed their ‘family filter’
Though YouTube
has released this moving video in support to the LGBTI community, they still
have yet to completely remove the ‘family filter’.
Earlier this
year, LGBTI YouTubers have realized that their videos haven’t been showing once
the ‘family
filter’ was ticked on which restricted content that seemed
‘inappropriate.’
While they issued
an apology, and promised some videos would be unrestricted, YouTube saidearlier
this year they have no plans to remove the filter.
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