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Article: Digital Queeries.
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- March 16, 1999
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Trouble in paradise
The first two weeks of February were rife with embarrassment followed by redemption for online powerhouses Yahoo! and Microsoft.
Both companies were linked--Yahoo! through two advertisers and Microsoft on its Expedia travel site--to online promotions awarding vacations at a Sandals resort in Jamaica. The trouble came in the fine print, which said, "Sandals Luxury Resorts policies require male/female couples only."
Online advocacy group Wired Strategies, tipped off to the homophobia by Atlanta resident Kirby Frank, issued a press release. Subsequently, Yahoo! and Microsoft--at risk of alienating a $17-billion-a-year ...