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It is celebrated on the last Friday in August each year in Australia and was launched in 2010. [4] [5] Previous years have celebrated the day in September or October. [6]The day was co-founded by Katherine Hudson and Scott Williams, [7] when Hudson was in high school [8] and Williams was in the first year of university.
Spirit Day is an annual LGBTQ awareness day observed on the third Thursday in October. [1] Started in 2010 by Canadian teenager Brittany McMillan, it was initially created in response to a rash of widely publicized bullying-related suicides of gay school students in 2010, including that of Tyler Clementi . [ 2 ]
Spirit Day has since become an annual event for LGBTQ people and their allies to wear purple to show their support for the cause. And the need for such a day is still warranted.
Wear it Purple Day: The final Friday of August: 2010: A day to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for rainbow young people. The day was co-founded by Katherine Hudson and Scott Williams. [67] Comparable days exist in a number of other countries, including the Netherlands (Purple Friday) and the United States (Spirit ...
Oprah Winfrey has worn the color purple 14 times to promote the movie. In other words: fourteen fabulous reasons purple is the best color.
Need a reason to unplug? There’s a “holiday” for that. October 20 is National Information Overload Day.
A purple brooch bearing an inscription pertaining to epilepsy. Purple Day is held annually on March 26. Supporters are encouraged to wear a purple-coloured item of clothing. Purple is the international color for epilepsy and is also a color that symbolizes solitude. [citation needed]
These featured pictures, as scheduled below, appeared as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page in October 2024. Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the anchor name (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/October 2024#1]] for October 1). You can add an automatically ...