Idealista, increasingly inclusive, changes the tab of gay-friendly to LGTB friendly

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

The Equality Advocacy Project has asked one of the largest real estate portal in Spain, Idealista, to change the its "gay-friendly" tab to a more inclusive descriptor, specifically to include the transgender community.

The Equality Advocacy Project is a non-profit organization formed by an LGTBQ+ group of journalists and people from the communication industry that wants to put pressure to be the speaker for those people who suffer persecution in their countries of origin.

Last June, the organization contacted Idealista to change the "gay friendly" tab to that of "LGTBQ+ friendly". After listening to their presentation, they understood the situation and got to work to carry out the changes in the platform.

“In most cases, transgender people find that when they go to see a shared house, they don't have the possibility to rent for the simple fact of being trans. The ‘gay friendly’ tab didn’t help,” explains the Founder of Equality Advocacy Project, Rafael Aníbal, who stated that after the job search, the most difficult thing is finding a home.

“It is important that large companies with the visibility of Idealista include the rest of the LGTBIQ collective. It is a matter of awareness, both at the company and public level. With the change of tab to ‘LGTBQ+ friendly’, users will understand the complexity and heterogeneity of the collective itself. From now on, if you are so open as to share a house with a gay, you should also be so to do it with a transsexual person.”

— Equality Advocacy Project Founder Rafael Aníbal

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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