#gaysper

I also need to take a new, better photo of my gayspers!

I definitely prefer the black background I've been using on my recent photos.

“A tweet from Spanish far-right political party Vox has spectacularly backfired after the group used a ‘gay ghost’ emoji to represent their battle against LGBT+ people.

The anti-LGBT political party posted a graphic on Twitter, prior to the Spanish general elections on April 28, of a Lord of the Rings character “going to battle” with the emblems of all of their adversaries.

The Photoshopped image included an anarchist sign, feminist sign, a Catalonia flag, a communist symbol, an El Pais logo (a Spanish newspaper) and to represent the LGBT community, a gay ghost emoji.

As the image went viral, the LGBT+ community used memes to reclaim the symbol as an icon of resistance against the far-right party.

Queer and trans social media users started using the hashtag #gaysper to create memes and roundly mock the group, who oppose same-sex marriage and LGBT+ families, using the rainbow-coloured ghost emoji.”  

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