On the occasion of celebration, as well as support for a community heavily punished by society, the company Google is integrating a new attribute to its Maps app.
This novelty is specifically related to the LGBTQ+ community. In a few words, those people who have a business in Google Maps, will be able to put a label named as “LGBTQ+”.
This label will serve to show that your bar, restaurant or any other type of business is friendly with people who are within one of the gender identities or sexual orientation to which the aforementioned acronym refers.
Google Maps doesn’t want to leave anyone out
Although within Google Maps it was already possible to access a tool to give much more visibility to the LGBTQ communitythe little sign was still missing “+” at the end of this acronym to complete the integration as far as communities of different sexual genders are concerned.
It is important to add that, with this novelty, the Google Maps app has included other functions, which? For example, the one that allows you to see where there are forest fires in real time, and the widget to see the traffic without having to open the app.
That yes, for the moment, this tag is only available to anyone in the United States have a business profile verified by Google. It is expected that it will be activated in the rest of the world as the weeks go by.
How to add the LGBTQ+ tag to a business on Google Maps?
If you want add this tag to your businessyou must follow each of the steps that we leave you below:
- The first thing you should do is sign in to your Google business profile.
- Once there, and having logged in with your account, you will have to click on the option called “Edit profile”.
- Within the section called “Commercial information”, you will have to look for the tab “Plus” and click on it.
- Select the category you want to change and set the attribute in question as “Yes”.
- If everything has been configured correctly, you should click on “Save”.
With nothing else to add, the new attribute should help make LGBTQ+ owned businesses more visible to people unfamiliar with the local area.
