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Minister Matt Kean highlighted Wear it Purple Day in his inaugural speech to Parliament in 2011. [68] Penny Sharpe submitted a motion to the NSW Upper House of Parliament in 2012, for the group's achievements to be acknowledged. [69] Wear it Purple Day 2014 was acknowledged by the Australian Senate in a motion submitted by Senator Sarah Hanson ...
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 ...
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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]
In March 2012, Purple Day received the Royal Assent and became a legal day for epilepsy awareness in Canada. [4] In December 2015, electronics retailer Dick Smith had arranged a major corporate partnership with Epilepsy Action Australia to support Purple Day in Australia with a $50,000 cash sponsorship, prizes and exclusive distribution of ...
The first Purple Hijab Day was celebrated on February 13, 2010. [11] The color purple was chosen because the color purple "is associated with mourning." [11] People who promote Purple Hijab Day stress that the day is about symbolism, but that "acting in unity will send a strong message for progress in our communities."
"Start Wearing Purple" is a song by gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, written by frontman Eugene Hütz. The song was packaged as a double single along with " Sally ", and released as the band's second single in February 2006.