Queer SF content creators say Instagram applies double standard to LGBTQs

Four queer San Francisco content creators and one in New York allege they were treated unfairly by social media giant Instagram. They said their accounts were restricted or even deleted under the auspices of rules around “sexually suggestive” content.

Three of the five told the Bay Area Reporter that Instagram alleged they were selling or buying sex through the platform – charges they say are baseless.

“What I was told flatly, directly, was that because my butt was in the photo, nudity constitutes the solicitation of sex,” said Cameron Cash, a gay man who runs the account @camofthecentury.

As the B.A.R. researched the issue for this article, more queer people and organizations came forward. Most recently, the Exiles, a storied San Francisco woman- and queer-centered educational Leather/