Purple gay
A Brief History of the Gayest Color
You may feel like the sky's hue tilted a small purple today. It's not your eyes, it's the reflection of all of us wearing purple for Spirit Day. While the annual event was founded in by Canadian teenager Brittany McMillan, our roots with the shade purple are deep in LGBT history.
Spirit Day encourages the planet to "go purple" to exhibit support for LGBT youth and speak out against bullying. Purple has long been synonymous with gay and bisexual men and women, but why? It all comes down to timing and choice of words.
After some analyze (read: Googling) I traced the origin of the color's association back to , when English chemist William Henry Perkin was searching for a cure for malaria and accidentally discovered the first synthetic dye, mauveine. The dye had the ability to color silks a rich yet light purple shade, and it gave birth to an entire industry of synthetic dyes that by the s were prevalent in fashion. The timing couldn't have been more perfect.
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Flags of the LGBTIQ Community
Flags have always been an integral part of the LGBTIQ+ movement. They are a visible inclusion meant to observe progress, advocate for representation, and strengthen the demand and drive for collective action. There possess been many LGBTIQ+ flags over the years. Some possess evolved, while others are constantly creature conceptualized and created.
Rainbow Flag
Created in by Gilbert Baker, the iconic Pride Rainbow flag originally had eight stripes. The colors included pink to represent sexuality, red for healing, yellow for star, green for serenity with nature, turquoise for art, indigo for harmony, and violet for soul. In the years since, the flag now has six colors. It no longer has a pink stripe, and the turquoise and indigo stripes were replaced with royal blue.
Progress Pride Flag
Created in by nonbinary artist Daniel Quasar, the Progress Pride flag is based on the iconic rainbow flag. With stripes of black and brown to represent marginalized LGBTIQ+ people of color and the triad of navy, pink, and colorless from the transgender flag, the desig
Deep Purple: Show Support for Gay and Lesbian Youth
By Tony Peregrin in News on Oct 19, PM
Spirit Day&#;not dissimilar to the idea of &#;Spirit Week&#; held in many elevated schools&#;now counts millions of Americans committed on Facebook to wearing the shade purple tomorrow. The thought 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 ceaseless harassment and bullying. But just as importantly, Energy Day is also a way to show the hundreds of thousands of LGBT youth who encounter the same pressures and bullying that there is a vast community of people who support them. As one of the event's Facebook pages says: "This event is not a seminar nor is it a rally. There is NO meeting place. All you have to do is wear purple."
Purple symbolizes 'spirit' on the rainbow flag, a symbol for LGBT Pride that was created by Gilbert Baker in
In addition to wearing the tint purple, GLAAD (The Male lover & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) is also asking gays and lesbians and their allies to twist their Facebo
In his book Chroma () the artist Derek Jarman writes about colour. At the end of his life, with his eyesight failing, he imagines purple as a transgressive colour.
“Purple is passionate, maybe violet becomes a short-lived bolder and ***** pink into purple. Sweet lavender blushes and watches.”
By the time he conjures his orgy of purples in the ’s, purple had a clear queer heritage. Stripes of purple possess flashed across the designs of queer flags from Gilbert Baker’s rainbow flag to Daniel Quasar’s 21st century progress flag, with the idea of purple as overlapping pink/red and blue representing a blurring of genders in bi and trans flags. Looking back at the messy, majestic history of lgbtq+ purples gives a feeling of why the Gay Working Group chose to explore Scottish design history through a lavender lens.
Vibrant variations of purple were notoriously difficult to pin down outside of character without extinguishing an entire species of shellfish. Reserved for the obscenely well-off until the 19th century, these glorious colours retained an aura of mystery after synthetic dyes