Seeing Red: Human Rights Campaign’s marriage equality logo goes viral
Source: MSNBC
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The Human Rights Campaigns push for marriage equality is sweeping social media Tuesday as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the Proposition 8 case. The social campaign launched around 1 p.m. EST Monday afternoon, when the organization changed its Facebook profile picture from its iconic blue and yellow logo to the current red version.
Red is a symbol for love, and thats what marriage is all about, Human Rights Campaign spokesperson Charlie Joughin told MSNBC.com on Tuesday. We wanted to give people an opportunity to show their support for marriage equality in a public and visible way.
Celebrities and politicians alike have replaced personal Facebook profile pictures with the HRCs red logoactor George Takei, Maryland Gov. Martin OMalleyand even more have spoken out on Twitter.
We never expected anything like thisfor it to go viral, HRCs Joughin said. So were excited. But more importantly, were excited that the public support for marriage equality has been so great.
Read more: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/03/26/seeing-red-human-rights-campaigns-marriage-equality-logo-goes-viral/
I must admit - until this AM I was not familiar with this particular log..when suddenly several different Facebook friends of mine had suddenly changed their profile pictures to this logo. I honestly thought that this must be the work of some kind of virus. But I was able to quickly find out the story.
MuseRider
(34,103 posts)or some other logo made for the occasion. Mine is my avatar here, switched it all over in hope that others would join in.
Pretty amazing. So happy to see so much support.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,055 posts)I have the DU rainbow Supreme Court pillars as the top image on FB, the HRC icon as my profile pic, and currently ~5/20 of my friends profile pics on the home page, and 3/6 on one timeline grid and 2/8 on the other are the HRC icon.
Also a few variations on the theme I love, as well!
Making me smile every time I look at it!
Auggie
(31,153 posts)SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)The Oatmeal, right?
Gore1FL
(21,116 posts)having red that high in the banner sometimes gives me the illusion of messages or updates.
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)on Facebook and DU.
On edit: Except it doesn't seem to be showing up.
Loki
(3,825 posts)primavera
(5,191 posts)... including mine. And I love it!
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)just found it on Facebook
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