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A prominent British LGBT news and entertainment website has sparked outrage after posting a racist meme of Nicki Minaj to its Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Gay Star News, one of the UK's biggest LGBT sites, has apologised after tweeting a picture of a chimpanzee with "Nicki Minaj" written on it.



A prominent British LGBT news and entertainment website has sparked outrage after posting a racist meme of Nicki Minaj to its Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Gay Star News published the picture on Thursday afternoon; it featured a series of celebrities ? including Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Christina Aguilera ? under the hashtag #ThrowbackThursday. For each of these, along with Rihanna, Adele, and Demi Lovato, a picture of the star as a child was used under each name.

But in the case of Nicki Minaj, a baby chimpanzee was pictured under her name. For Madonna, what appears to be a cave painting was used ? a reference to her age that readers deemed misogynistic.

The posting of this meme by such a high profile news outlet has attracted widespread condemnation on social media, with many accusing Gay Star News of racism.

The criticism prompted Gay Star News, whose editor Tris Reid-Smith was formerly the editor of Gay Times, Britain's longest-running LGBT publication, to swiftly apologize and remove the post.

"We apologize an offensive meme was posted on our Twitter feed," Reid-Smith said. "We didn't look closely at all the images in it and it won't happen again."


Reid-Smith told BuzzFeed News: "We are gutted. It was a moment's mistake because someone didn't look. This is something we shared and totally failed to look at properly. It is totally vile. The person who made the mistake is mortified as am I. It was up for just a few minutes and then deleted as soon as he saw."

He added: "We instantly and unreservedly apologized on Twitter and I would like to repeat that we are desperately sorry. This was purely because we didn't spot it. This has never happened before and will not happen again. We will not only say sorry but will work to make amends. We are strongly anti-racism and this really matters to us."

https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/this-popular-lgbt-news-outlet-just-published-a-racist-meme?utm_term=.wrgAkkGK#.junADD8N

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Barbs, I'm OUTRAGED! 

[Almost]

The Madonna one

[Freemala Harris]

Not surprising

Racist fags

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That's what this homophobic pedo supporter gets 

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That's what this homophobic pedo supporter gets 

Yeah, I'm thinking maybe they caught onto her LGBTQ shade MESS.

When you put it that way.....

[Admin]

fff Madge

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The Madonna one had me IN PAIN

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This prehistoric drawing of this cavebitch

[SouravMay]

bbhh @ britney being a robot since birth

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this Madonna one 

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but no for real this is fucked up to use a pic of Monkey

they could've used a possum. But this is clearly racist

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That's what this homophobic pedo supporter gets 

Yeah, I'm thinking maybe they caught onto her LGBTQ shade MESS.

When you put it that way.....

Sometimes you get what you give.

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That's what this homophobic pedo supporter gets 

Yeah, I'm thinking maybe they caught onto her LGBTQ shade MESS.

When you put it that way.....

Sometimes you get what you give.

Well slice straight through the pan fried double stuffed pizza.