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Hoylman raps
Google over ‘gay
cure’ app fl ap
BY ALEJANDRA
O’CONNELL-DOMENECH
State Senator
Brad Hoylman
is calling
for Google
to examine why
it took so long to
remove a gay-conversion
therapy app
from its Play Store.
Last year, Hoylman
reintroduced his
bill banning the pseudoscientifi
c practice and it
was signed into law on
Jan. 15. New York thus
became the 15th state in
the nation to ban gayconversion
therapy.
“This needs to be a
real soul-searching moment
for the company,”
Hoylman said. “Where
did the resistance come
from and why?”
According to the senator,
Google only moved
to scrap the app after the
Human Rights Campaign
decided not to endorse
the company on its 2019
Corporate Equity Index.
“After consulting with
outside advocacy groups,
reviewing our policies,
and making sure we had
a thorough understanding
of the app and its
relation to conversion
therapy, we’ve decided
to remove it from the
Play Store, consistent
with other app stores,”
a Google representative
said when asked why it
chose to stop distributing
the app at this moment.
Living Hope Ministries,
the group behind
the app, did not respond
to a request for comment
from this paper. But in
January, Living Hope
Ministries — which was
founded with a gay-conversion
mission — denied
to The Verge that it was
performing conversion
therapy. The company’s
Web site sates that it proclaims
a Christ-centered,
Biblical world-view of
sexual expression rooted
in one man and one
woman in a committed,
monogamous, heterosexual
COURTESY BRAD HOYLMAN’S OFFICE
State Senator Brad
Hoylman speaking in
the Senate chambers
in Albany on Mon.,
March 25.
marriage for life.
“Anything less than
this ideal falls short of
God’s best for humanity,”
the site states.
Last December, Amazon,
Microsoft and Apple
all stopped providing the
app after an online petition
on change.org —
blasting the app as
“bigoted” and “hateful”
— demanded its removal.
More than 141,806
people called for Google
to remove the app on
a separate petition on
change.org .
Hoylman said that he
met with multiple representatives
from Google
at least half a dozen
times since January to
ask about the status of
the app’s removal. He
was told technical issues
and legal concerns were
delaying the process.
To him, the company
was just using delaying
tactics. He said he found
it very disappointing that
the Google would not
respond to an elected
offi cial representing the
district that is now home
to their New York City
headquarters.
“Something is broken
at Google,” Hoylman
said in a statement. “It’s
on them to fi x it — the
L.G.B.T.Q. community is
watching.”
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