Google has been removed from the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index after failing to ban a 'gay cure' app on its Play platform.
In an attempt to reach out to Google, the Human Rights Campaign joined forces with the LGBTIQ+ youth organisation Trevor Project, delivering a petition with over 140,000 signatures calling for the 'harmful' app's removal.
"We have been urging Google to remove this app because it is life-threatening to LGBTIQ+ youth and also clearly violates the company’s own standards," a HRC spokesperson said.
The app, which was developed by the Living Hope Ministries, has already been removed by Microsoft, Apple and Amazon.
Wayne Besen, executive director of anti 'conversion therapy' organisation Truth Wins Out, writes in the petition: "Google has failed to return any of our emails, phone calls or tweets and seems to think they can just pray away the gays."
He added: "Google is allowing a homophobic app to ruin lives at the click of a button."
It's only the third time in 20 years that a company has been suspended from the HRC's equality index.
