Okay... I have a listing on VRBO.COM for our house in San Miguel Mexico. The listing is up for renewal in a few days and I am hesitating on another year with them due to some "rumors" I heard last year about them discriminating against gays. What I heard was that they refused to print "gay-friendly' in one of their listings.... to be honest...I don't quite get it why a rental house listing needs to say "gay-friendly"...but anyway I wrote VRBO.COM asking them out-right if they are anti-gay. Their response is below....

what do you think?

VRBO.com has never and will never discriminate against anyone based on race, religion, gender, or sexual preferences. We do not actually know any of this information about any of our members unless for some reason they have disclosed it to us. In the unlikely event they have, we have done nothing about it. We collect no demographic information about anyone other than their mailing address and phone numbers so we have no way of discriminating against them.

However, we do have standards for what we will allow on our site. We maintain a total ban on any sexual references which includes nude beaches, alternative lifestyles, or strip bars. We are as one member referred to as 'generic'. While some sites choose to allow anything to be posted, we choose to remain generic so anyone can visit our site and feel comfortable in what they might see. This has been our policy from the beginning and it's worked for virtually all of our members so there are no plans to change it.

What we do offer is to bring over 3 million visitors to the site each month, many of them interested in your property. We do not care what their race, religion, gender, or sexual preferences are either and members can determine that information themselves, if they care.