The Rainbow Pride Reaction Is On Facebook And People Are Reacting
During any normal month, there are five reactions on Facebook: Like, Heart, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry. But in honor of Pride month, Facebook’s rolling out a new one: a rainbow.
The social media network announced in a post on Friday, “We believe in building a platform that supports all communities. So we’re celebrating love and diversity this Pride by giving you a special reaction.”
June is traditionally when LGBTQ people across the world celebrate Pride. The rainbow flag takes on a poignant tone this year, though: Gilbert Baker, the activist who created the rainbow flag in 1978 at Harvey Milk’s request, died in March 2017. He described himself as “the gay Betsy Ross,” according to his New York Times obituary.
People were excited and planned to make the most of the time they had with the emoji.
According to Facebook, it’s available for all of Pride Month.
But not everyone on Facebook has been able to immediately access the rainbow reaction.
And people, especially LGBTQ people, were a bit confused.
Don’t stress. Here’s how to get start reacting with rainbows on Facebook asap:
Log into Facebook.
Like the LGBTQ@Facebook page.
Voila! You’re now able to react to whatever you want with a rainbow! (Or so they say.)
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17 Comments
Delle
June 10, 08:44Hehehe. Let’s see those Nigerians that can boldly don on the Rainbow “flag”.
*mouth filled with popcorns*
Pink Panther
June 10, 08:46Check me out on Facebook, Delle. I’m in my element. ?????
Dextrous
June 10, 19:14Aren’t you afraid of giving out your sexuality to your facebook audience?
Pink Panther
June 10, 19:24You don’t get to operate an LGBT blog for three years and still worry about who thinks you’re gay or not on the social media.
Jcee
June 10, 09:28Sweetie ,please I want to bottom for the first time. Can you walk me through any preparations required.
Thanks.
Pink Panther
June 10, 09:57Hmm.
Colossus
June 10, 10:18Don’t ‘hmmm’, help out
ambivalentone
June 10, 10:45LOOOOOL. Have u got a stake in this matter?
Pink Panther
June 10, 10:47Epp me and ask o.
Jcee
June 10, 11:44Sorry, the question was meant for delle. Didn’t know how it ended on your reply box.
Delle
June 10, 18:19I should make that into a post for you and others like you, Jcee. Keep reading.
*kisses*
ambivalentone
June 10, 09:20Just did, but can’t find the icons. Am I not gay enough too?
Quinn
June 10, 09:51Not having the pride reaction is homophobic! hahaha! I’m gonna go use it! and say #jesusovertherrainbow!
Miss_terious
June 11, 07:40Lawd knows I must have used the pride reaction over a 100 times already ?. It gives me JOY. Homophobes should suck it up…. Like literally they should if not my pride reaction game is gonna go up a whole noda level
Pink Panther
June 11, 07:50The mischievous wickedness of it all. lol
Just Negodu
June 11, 20:22I am seeing this thing on some Nigerians fb post. I come dey wonder; Naija is gradually accepting the fact that lgbt is real and stays
Malik
June 13, 10:34Lol. I bet a good number of Nigerians don’t even know what the rainbow means.
I’m not taking chances though.