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Fun with Google's "Gay Pride" bar!

 

You may have heard that the gay-friendly folks at Google (no sarcasm there, I got no beef with the Googs) have unrolled a special rainbow search results banner in time for Gay Pride.

Interestingly, the rainbow stripe only appears when certain gay-friendly search terms are entered. For example, you'll get the fruit stripe when you search for "gay" (above)...

 

... but not "marcia gay harden". Which is interesting because she was in Angels in America, HELLOOOO!

A bunch more interesting results below!

Fruit stripes for "stonewall"...

... but not "stonewall jackson":

You also get the bar if you search for "queer", "lesbian", "gay pride" and "transgender", but not for "fag", "dyke", "queer as folk", "homo" or "elton john". And wait, no rainbow stripes for "liza minnelli", "barbra streisand" or "over the rainbow"? Consider these pearls CLUTCHED!

Anyone else find any fun rainbow-stripe-worthy search terms? 

Liz T's picture

terms with stripes...

drag queen

gay marriage

GLAAD

HRC

Ben Weldon's picture

Rainbow stripe for lgbt but

Rainbow stripe for lgbt but not glbt or lgbtqi! I for one am outraged! ;-)
Shizuma's picture

Hmm.

Got a bar for bisexual (yay!) but not for pansexual or omnisexual.
Dave Doty's picture

No stripe...

for Neil Patrick Harris, Gay-Straight Alliance, Westboro Baptist Church or nambla.

No stripe for Queer As Folk!

Rich's picture

John Barrowman,Gay=

No stripes
famguyrules90's picture

:-O

No banner for brokeback mountain, or civil partnership but there is for civil union? im so confused!!!!

My tonuge would catch your tongue...were the world mine :-)

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blooddrivendream's picture

No rainbow stripe for

No rainbow stripe for Google-ing "rainbow," I am a little disappointed by that. 

Or even for genderqueer.

Aww. . . I want more rainbows! 

Kitty's picture

My Results

I got bars for: "Gay Pride", "Pride Parade", "Gay Pride Parade", "Drag King","Transsexual",  and the most obvious that no one mentioned "Homosexual", "Homosexuality", and "Bisexuality"

Interestingly, no bars for "Gay Pride Month", "Rainbow Flag", or "Queer Cinema"

Kitty

oneoftwo's picture

No stripe for...

After Elton?  What's up with that?
Campion's picture

no bar for gay penguins, so

no bar for gay penguins, so much for electing them our leaders! and "gay people in history" is also no bar.

What! No bar for "gay rights" !

Gay Men and Gay Women get bars, but there must be an age limit as gay teenagers or teens do not get a bar.

 

 

 

 

sven's picture

Rainbow Stripe for Gay Travel

Tis the season to travel...

 

Happy gay travels to all

 

Sven