Russians have put their own patriotic twist on a Facebook application sweeping the globe that acknowledges marriage equality.
Millions of people participated in a trend on Facebook this week, where users overlayed their profile pictures with rainbow colours, to support a historic move by the US Supreme Court at the weekend to recognise same-sex marriage.
But this caused backlash among conservative users in Russia, who opted to display their national pride instead.
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After seeing the popularity of the rainbow filter, Russian graphic designer Oleg Chulakov created a Photoshop tool to add the colours of the Russian flag to users’ pictures.
After it was downloaded 5,000 times Mr Chulakov decided to turn it into a web app called ‘Love for the Motherland’.
By Wednesday morning, Mr Chukakov had added a ‘geolocation’ option so people from any country could upload their country’s flag.
Mr Chulakov said the patriotic idea was not anti-gay.
However, many people on social media with the new Russian flag pictures have tagged them as “#pridetobestraight’ and ‘#proudtobeRussian” in both Russian and English, The Independent reported.
On Tuesday, The New Daily reported a Melbourne-based photographer had a couple cancel their wedding booking because he openly supported marriage equality.
Corey Wright used the rainbow Facebook app on his business profile photo, which offended the soon-to-be-married couple who emailed Mr Wright to cancel their booking and demanded their deposit back.
#pridetobestraight #pridetoberussian #гордбытьнатуралом pic.twitter.com/9DiE7y8urR
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