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Contents:

• “WEAR ’EM”: PRCETON UNIVERSY’S FIRST GAY JEANS DAY
• GAY BLUE JEANS DAY
• “WEAR ’EM”: PRCETON UNIVERSY’S FIRST GAY JEANS DAY
• GAY BLUE JEANS DAY
• GAY JEANS DAY FABRIC CROSSWORD CLUE
• GAY JEANS DAY FABRIC CROSSWORD CLUE
• GAY BLUE JEANS DAY
• TAG: GAY JEANS DAY
• GAY STUNTS ASSOCIATN
• NATNAL GAY BLUE JEANS DAY
• GAY JEANS DAY FABRIC CROSSWORD CLUE

“WEAR ’EM”: PRCETON UNIVERSY’S FIRST GAY JEANS DAY

The events of October 11, 1989, Prceton’s first “Gay Jeans Day, ” reverberated far beyond the nf of a 24-hour perd. Wh pk flyers stenciled black letters, anizers of Prceton’s first Gay Jeans Day urged the mp to “wear ’em” whout further tails. Many took to mean that wearg jeans would be a claratn of their own homosexualy.

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Gay Jeans Day flyer, 1989.

Lbian Gay Bisexual Alliance Rerds (AC037), Box 1, Folr 5. Gay Jeans Day, which by 1989 was beg observed on mp across Ameri, had begun as Blue Jeans Day and appears to have origated njunctn wh the “Symposium on Gay Liberatn and Edutn” -sponsored by the Rutgers Stunt Homophile League 1974. The League had advertised this and subsequent Blue Jeans Days as an opportuny to clare one’s homosexualy through a clothg choice and statned strategilly-placed “unters” to pretend to be notg who wore jeans and who did not.

Wearg jeans on Gay Jeans Day was meant to show one’s support for gay, lbian, and bisexual stunts, and was therefore tend to be clive of straight stunts as well. In the late 1980s, at the height of the AIDS epimic, gay Amerins were particularly proment subjects of social disurse, often a negative way. The first Gay Jeans Day happened to ci wh AIDS Awarens Day.

“WEAR ’EM”: PRCETON UNIVERSY’S FIRST GAY JEANS DAY

Though this appears to have been untentnal, anizers of Gay Jeans Day did acknowledge that the epimic had been on their mds as they ma their plans. In the mid ‘70s, an Amerin homosexual lived a ‘liberated’ natn whout the prence of the current ‘New Right’ and the fear of AIDS. Today, homosexuals feel threatened by a general cultural disda flicted by polil and relig movements and a vastatg epimic.

Many stunts did not want to take the chance they might be seen as gay and rented the perceived mand to take sis, as Myl W. Derieg ’92 wrote a letter to the edor of the Daily Prcetonian: “If I wear jeans, I will be labelled as a homosexual. If I don’t wear jeans, people will ll me homophobic.

There is no middle ground on Gay Jeans Day for someone who is uncid or who ankly don’t re. “The promoters of Gay Jeans Day have exprsed nothg but ntempt for the law of the land. The cisn [to wear jeans or not] is siar to the dilemma that gays, lbians and bisexuals face every day.

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How are they gog to package themselv to appear before peers who often view homosexualy as different, an aberratn?

Szanne Bernat ’91 wrote that homophobic slurs had been hurled at her brother when he vised her on mp earlier that year, and the tensns that arose over wearg jeans had helped to highlight what was like to be nspicuoly different. “I thk that Gay Jeans Day…brought a flavor of this personal vlatn home to many stunts who felt their fens go up…”. Henshon said that more women than men had worn jeans (an observatn echoed by Ken Griggs ’91, head of the Coaln Agast Homophobia), wh about 44% of the people he had seen wearg them, and that the day felt awkward wh everyone lookg at everyone else’s legs.

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His article closed wh an exprsed hope that those who were on mp at the time uld have their hearts softened to the plight of gay stunts. Lorg McAlp ’83 wrote that his time at Prceton as a closeted gay man had been eply paful and scribed the environment as “reprsive. Stunts might then beg to qutn not only their behavr but the stutnal system that fosters homophobia and narrows thkg about life choic.

Brnohler ’68 aligned his views more closely wh those of the stunts who were agast Gay Jeans Day and pared homosexualy to a disabily:. we should draw the le when ant elements of the homosexual populatn attempt to blame the stutns of society at large for the unhapps that may rult om their dilemma.

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Where homosexualy is ncerned, there seems to be a growg acceptance of such irratnaly as a legimate social movement. However, the foc had always been on gay, lbian, and bisexual stunts. This was the se for Kev Gonzalez ’94, who had a iend who was om Puerto Ri like him and refed to wear jeans bee would signal homosexualy.

Sue Ann Steffey Morrow, who was Associate Dean of the Chapel at the time Gay Jeans Day was first anized at Prceton, said 1989 that the Chapel was sponsorg bee “We believe that the universy n do better givg gay stunts a strong and welg place this muny. ” Later, Morrow reflected, “even if the gay and lbian stunts weren’t ready, they beme que visible…” Kathryn Hamm ’91 scribed her experience wh Gay Jeans Day as a closeted stunt as “really trmatic” 2019. Gay Jeans Day was observed at Prceton until the middle of the first of the 21st century, around the same time as the openg of the mp LGBT Center 2006.

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” Social activism among LGBT stunts took different forms, but the impact of Gay Jeans Day remaed wh those who experienced . Lbian Gay Bisexual Alliance Rerds (AC037).

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Prceton Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer/Qutng, Intersex, Asexual (LGBTQIA) Oral History Project (AC465). “‘This Ceremony Was Not Sanctned’: Gay Marriage at Prceton. Gay TV and Straight Ameri.

“The Rutgers Universy Lbian/Gay Alliance 1969-1989: The First Twenty Years. “Tolerance Towards Lbians and Gays: A Factor Analysis of Prceton Unrgraduate Attus. Gay Blue Jeans Day, alternatively Natnal Gay Blue Jeans Day or jt Gay Jeans Day is a celebratn equently advertised on llege mp the Uned Stat ordatn wh World AIDS Day, Gay Equaly Day, Gay Pri Week, or Natnal Comg Out Day.

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Stunts are enuraged to wear jeans on a particular day to munite their support of gay rights. The anizers of Gay Jeans Day at CMU analyse the actn this way.

Allow straight people to thk about how others will react to their perceived sexual orientatn, and to experience havg to alter their normal behavr to avoid beg perceived as gay. Durg mp bat the early 1990s about such Jeans Days, the Lbian and Gay Alliance at Bowlg Green State Universy published a letter to the lol newspaper ditg that part of the logic of g a mon piece of clothg such as jeans was to monstrate that, when jeans dited participatn affirmg such rights, people would liberately wear another form of clothg tac prott.

Many supporters of the prott[2] argued that the prott was effective bee forced heterosexuals to do somethg to actively engage homophobia (wear somethg else that day), or wear their ual attire (blue jeans) and bee possible targets of homophobia themselv, and that many people unaware of the. prott might wear blue jeans and be ted by beg targets of homophobia.

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personal relatnship to homophobia by leavg no space to be unterted.

Blue Jeans Day is celebrated on llege and universy mp across the untry as a way to promote equal rights for gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people.

Started 1974 at Rutgers Universy, Blue Jeans Day is observed ordatn wh Gay Pri Week or Natnal Comg Out Day (October 11).

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Its purpose is to promote equal rights for gay and transgenr people; wearg blue jeans, whether a person is gay or straight, is a way to show support for equal rights for everyone.

On Blue Jeans Day, heterosexuals aware of the tradn uld eher show solidary wh gay people by wearg blue jeans and bee possible targets of homophobia themselv, or be forced to engage homophobia by nscly choosg to wear somethg else.

This crossword clue Gay Jeans Day fabric was disvered last seen the December 9, 2021 at the USA Today Crossword.