We need your advice: Tumblr is blocking LGBT blogs, labelling them “sensitive”

Has your LGBTQA tumblr blog incorrectly been marked as “sensitive”? We would like to know!

My wife has been sharing LGBT news and life stories over at sallymolay.tumblr.com since the summer of 2014 She has some 2300 followers, who have been liking and sharing her content. The blog contains more than 1000 posts.

Early last year we discovered that Tumblr had marked the blog as “sensitive”. This meant that only members of tumblr could see the content. The public web site was no longer available for people without tumblr accounts. It could no longer be crawled by the search engines.

As most of you know, tumblr decided to ban porn in December. Now my wife’s blog is treated as an adult blog. Even registered “tumblerers” get the message “This Tumblr may contain sensitive media”.

It doesn’t. There is absolutely no explicit imagery on that blog and no “adult” content. Tumblr had flagged some images, none of which present nudity. These posts have later all been unflagged by tumblr. 

The blog is “clean”, but tumblr has not removed the content wall. They have, however, removed her avatar and the blog design. 

My wife has several times reported the issue to tumblr, using the online form set up for this purpose. This has had no effect.

We are preparing  a blog post and a magazine article on this issue and need more examples of tumblr unfairly labelling LGBTQA blogs as “sensitive”. 

We would also like to know if anyone has been able get in touch with tumblr officials regarding this matter or if anyone has gotten around similar walls. 

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