Our society is a big melting pot when it comes to relationships. For years many celebrities have slowly been coming out the closet expressing their love for people of the same sex along with regular everyday folks. So keeping up with the times Facebook has made some changes allowing those in same sex marriages to display it on Facebook. Check out the recent Facebook update after the jump.
Following in Apple’s iconic footsteps, Facebook over the weekend unveiled two new “cake topper” figures for same-sex couples declaring their marriage status on the social network.
Previously, changing one’s partnership status to “married” would produce an timeline icon depicting a heterosexual couple.
One of the first to use the new icon was Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who married his partner Sean Eldridge on Saturday.
GLAAD notes that this is not Facebook’s first gesture of LGBT inclusion: In February of last year, the company made it possible for users to select “In a Civil Union” and “In a Domestic Partnership” from a list of possible relationships.
It remains to be seen how One Million Moms — an anti-gay offshoot of the American Family Association which relies on Facebook to propagate its message — will respond to this progressive feature.
