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Christmas-themed Caitlyn Jenner billboard ignites LGBT row

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By John McCarthy, Opinion Editor

December 4, 2015 | 3 min read

A New Zealand company is the latest business to be engulfed in controversy for attempting a Caitlyn Jenner joke on a billboard.

Cranium Signage, a sign-making firm based in Auckland, recently erected a sign parodying the Vanity Fair Caitlyn Jenner shoot asking viewers: “hope your sack is fuller than mine this Christmas.”

The obscure Auckland sign company was vilified in a matter of minutes, all thanks to social media. A sizeable backlash from the LGBT community, unhappy at the humour directed at Jenner, was quick to condemn the company.

Phillip Garratt, owner of the company issued an apology over Facebook.

Good evening,We have removed our post and are now removing the sign tonight due to people taking offence. It was not...

Posted by Cranium Signage on Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Additionally however, he erected a new billboard hinting that the company had been censored by the masses upon social media.

Censored, and yes we put the rubbish in the bin which is going to the landfill

Posted by Cranium Signage on Tuesday, 1 December 2015

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