Employees of Google Israel were seen marching in the Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv this Friday.
http://shirbut.com/blog/?p=727
This might be non-news in other countries.
In Israel, where ultra-orthodox politicians are opposing any public expression about sex or homosexuality, this is indeed news.
Even more, the writer of the post (Eran Neufeld) wrote that as far as he remembers, Google is the first company to march at the parade as a group – with a company logo. |
On a related note, here are some older photos of Google employees joining a gay pride parade in San Francisco:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-07-05-n12.html |
When i visited Google Israel last year, they had an ad about this:
http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-tel-aviv/large/12.jpg
(Checkout the ad with Gmail magnet on it) |
its not really news since israel seems to be progressive in granting gay rights
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