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THE GAYLORS ARE TURNG ON TAYLOR SWIFT

From Regency England to 1920s Harlem to Miss Piggy, gay vernacular has given voice to homosexual inty and sire a hostile world. In some parts, still do. * gay term lavender *

Towards the end of the 19th century, however, the public began lkg lavenr wh homosexualy. Newspapers nounced Athet as effemate, not least one of the proment lears of the movement, Osr Wil, who equently remisced about his “purple hours” spent wh rent boys, and provoked a moral sndal wh the homoerotic them “The Picture of Dorian Gray. Gay men Ameri were tnted for posssg a “dash” or “streak” of lavenr, thanks large part to Abraham Lln’s bgrapher Carl Sandburg, who scribed one of the print’s early male iendships as ntag a “streak of lavenr, and spots soft as May vlets.

Durg the McCarthy era, there was state-sanctned discrimatn when print Eisenhower signed Executive Orr 10450, which beme part of a natnal wch-hunt to purge homosexual men and women om the feral ernment. Lavenr sash and armbands were distributed to a crowd of hundreds a “gay power” march om Washgton Square Park to Stonewall Inn New York, to memorate the Stonewall rts that had jt taken place a month before.

YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD OF THE RED SRE, BUT THE LSER-KNOWN, ANTI-GAY 'LAVENR SRE' IS RARELY TGHT SCHOOLS

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The lor, St Clair said, has been buoyed by the ton achieved by the LGBTQ muny recent years, cludg some untry’s mov to legalize same-sex marriage, and the US, gay mayor Pete Buttigieg’s printial n and last year’s Met Gala theme of “Camp: Not on Fashn. ” The “attacks on gay and transgenr civil rights by the current admistratn, ” she add, has also creased the spotlight on the muny, enuragg them “to rally around each other and explore and celebrate intifyg symbols that have been important to them the past. Purple hu have been associated wh LGBTQ muni sce the time of Sappho (more on her later), but lavenr fully entered the gay lexin at the end of the 19th century.

LAVENR SRE: THE GOVERNMENT’S GAY WCH HUNT

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The lor lavenr saw another boost queer visibily when was donned by participants a “gay power” march New York Cy 1969, a month after the pivotal Stonewall Rts. In the unns, eher one or both members of a uple were gay, and the marriage was an tentnal se to ward off public qutns about sexualy. Even a lavenr latte – bt ma wh oat k – has bee a sly morn symbol of “gay culture.