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Facebook Releases Adorable LGBT Messenger Stickers for Pride

Which one reflects you?

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Facebook says it is celebrating Pride by adding over a dozen free Facebook Messenger stickers to the Sticker Store. Among them: two brides holding a cat, a football player and his boyfriend, a leatherman and his Chihuahua, a disco bunny, an AIDS/Life Cycle rider, and of course lots of different families.

"We see this as one more way we can make Facebook a place where people can express their authentic identity," says Facebook's Carolyn Merrell.

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