The Supreme Court's ruling won't be delivered until June, but legal experts have suggested that the judges could be tentatively leaning towards legalizing gay marriage in all 50 states. Supreme Court regarding a set of cases that would ultimately determine whether states had to legally accept same-sex marriages performed in other states. The following day, on April 28, oral arguments were presented to the U.S. As noted by Quartz, that's over twice as many photos as were tagged to ever-popular 'prayer hands' emoji. On the first day of the update, the emoji depicting two women holding hands had about 13,000 photos tagged to it. This week, Instagram released an update that made it possible for photos to be hashtagged using emojis.
In this case, emojis may very well be ahead of a forthcoming Supreme Court ruling on whether states should accept same-sex marriages legally performed elsewhere. Emojis have always been ahead of their time when it came to inclusion of LGBT relationships. Move over rainbow flag, there are new gay symbols catching fire: the same-sex couple emojis.
