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- A top Australian wedding magazine was forced to shut its doors after it recieved backlash for refusing to feature same-sex couples in its spread.
- White Magazine’s founders issued a statement explaining that it was “no longer economically viable” after advertisers began pulling out of the publication over its beliefs.
- According to the statement, the company took a silent stance as Australia debated and ultimately legalized same-sex marriage in December.
- Several of White Magazine’s former photographers, some of whom are queer themselves, raised the alarm to the publication’s practices.
- “It seems they’re able to differentiate a photographer from their work, as long as a heterosexual couple ends up on their pages,” a former photographer for the magazine wrote on Twitter.
A top Australian wedding magazine was forced to shut its doors after it recieved backlash for refusing to feature same-sex couples in its spread.
On Saturday, White Magazine’s founders issued a statement explaining that it was “no longer economically viable,” after advertisers began pulling out of the publication due to the backlash the company recieved over its exclusion of LGBTQI+ weddings. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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