Gelinda wrote:Well, I have a fear that Purple is wrong. I have heard in the deep south it said that men wearing purple are GAY and so I wonder if that is more wide spread. ..
Gelinda, I think you are mistaken about this. Men wearing purple has no significance known to me. LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) organizations often use the so-called “rainbow flag” as a symbol of their diversity, the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple symbolizing the heterogeneity of their members — but purple itself having no more meaning than any of the other colors. Lesbians and gays most often use an inverted pink triangle, whose history goes back to the badges worn by prisoners in Hitler’s concentration camps. I have never heard of the color purple being associated with gays. Alice Walker’s novel,
The Color Purple, is set in the deep South, but it is not about gay people. I doubt that Ms. Walker, who was born and raised in Georgia, would have chosen that particular title if
purple had been a recognized symbol in the deep South for gay men. :?
