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Is purple a gay color
In fact lavender – a subtle hue that shifts between light pinkish purples, and gray and blueish tones – has had, despite its whimsical nature, its own historical significance in representing.
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Gilbert Baker created the original pride flag in Baker was urged by Harvey Milk to create a symbol for the LGBT community and he chose a flag, which he saw as the most powerful symbol of pride.
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These lighter colours developed a queer hue as they became more fashionable with women and lavender became a slang term for a gay man. By the late ’s newspapers were casually mentioning the “lavender set” as a dismissive shorthand for groups of queer men.
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The idea behind Spirit Day, first created by teenager Brittany McMillan earlier this month, is to honor the six gay boys who took their lives as a result of relentless harassment and bullying. But just as importantly, Spirit Day is also a way to show the hundreds of thousands of LGBT youth who face the same pressures and bullying that there is a vast community of people who support them.
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Gay men in America were taunted for possessing a “dash” or “streak” of lavender, thanks in large part to Abraham Lincoln’s biographer Carl Sandburg, who described one of the president’s early male friendships as containing a “streak of lavender, and spots soft as May violets.”.
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How many times, in the history of lesbian fashion, is purple on the periphery? Within this blog, it crops up repeatedly, an Easter egg for the eagle eyed.
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Most people typically associate the term LGBT with the six colour rainbow flag (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple). It was originally introduced by Gilbert Baker in and has commonly been used as a way of showing identity or support.
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You may feel like the sky's hue tilted a little purple today. It's not your eyes, it's the reflection of all of us wearing purple for Spirit Day.
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Of all the shades of purple, lavender is that which is most associated with lesbians and the LGBTQ community as a whole. It’s more of a linguistic correlation than a fashion one, but it’s where I’ll begin nonetheless.
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