‘Is My Son Gay?’ Android app pulled

A controversial app for Android smartphones that purported to help mums ‘calculate’ if their sons were gay has been pulled by Google, the developers say.

‘Is My Son Gay’ was released early last week, causing an uproar on Twitter and a host of online responses that slammed it for being homophobic and relying on sterrotypes.

The app posed 20 questions, including ‘does he care about how he dresses?’ and ‘does he read the sport pages?’. It then offered three results; ‘gay’, ‘normal and modern’ and ‘not gay’. The last option assured mothers they ‘did not have to worry’ because they would have grandchildren.

On Monday, the app page was no longer available on Android Market. A representative of the company that developed it, Emmene-moi, told SBS that Google had pulled it from the site unilaterally.  Read More