Why Is The Colour Purple Gay?

👒🔍 Download June’s Journey for free now using my link: https://woo.ga/nx50917q My BRAND NEW merch store: https://jessicaoutofthecloset.myshopify.com/ CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 02:35 Hercules’ dog discovers purple dye 08:08 Sappho’s violets 11:42 Perkin disovers (synthetic) purple dye 14:13 “A streak of lavender” 17:13 The obscenity of violets 21:15 Pansies (and other plants) 25:09 The Lavender Menace 30:25 The Lavender Rhinoceros 33:54 Lavender = Queer 38:05 Alice Walker’s The Color Purple 47:24 Spirit Day FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Instagram ➭ https://www.instagram.com/JessicaOutOfTheCloset TikTok ➭ https://www.tiktok.com/@jessicaoutofthecloset Facebook ➭ https://www.facebook.com/JessicaOutOfTheCloset Threads ➭ https://www.threads.net/@jessicaoutofthecloset Find my filming equipment on my Amazon store: UK ➭ https://amzlink.to/az0yCIyQyduqS US ➭ https://amzlink.to/az0uHJvmBASLD How to JOIN the Kellgren-Fozard Club and SPONSOR this channel ➭ https://www.youtube.com/c/JessicaKellgrenFozard/join If you've enjoyed this video then feel free to buy me a drink to show your support! ➭ https://ko-fi.com/A1814A5T --------------------- Bibliography: How the Lavender Menace Fought for Lesbian Liberation in the 1970s (https://www.them.us/story/lavender-menace) The secret history of queer flowers (https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/25/us/flowers-lgbtq-lavender-meaning-cec/index.html) You’ve Probably Heard of the Red Scare, but the Lesser-Known, Anti-Gay ‘Lavender Scare’ Is Rarely Taught in Schools (https://time.com/5922679/lavender-scare-history/) Violet delights: A queer history of purple (https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/articles/violet-delights-a-queer-history-of-purple) Tyrian Purple: The disgusting origins of the colour purple (https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180801-tyrian-purple-the-regal-colour-taken-from-mollusc-mucus) From Lavender to Violet: The Lesbian Obsession with Purple (https://dressingdykes.com/2021/08/20/from-lavender-to-violet/) Four Flowering Plants That Have Been Decidedly Queered (https://daily.jstor.org/four-flowering-plants-decidedly-queered/) Queer Botany: The Sapphic Violet (https://botanicgardens.uw.edu/about/blog/2021/12/21/queer-botany-the-sapphic-violet/) Four flowers that have become queer symbols (https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/plants-LGBTQ-symbols) How lavender became a symbol of LGBTQ resistance (https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/lgbtq-lavender-symbolism-pride/index.html) IYG: Like the Color Purple, Bold and Vibrant (https://www.indianayouthgroup.org/post/like-the-color-purple-bold-and-vibrant) Lavender Menace Action at Second Congress to Unite Women (https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/lavender-menace-action-at-second-congress-to-unite-women/) Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1970). Lavender Menace at Second Congress to Unite Women, NYC, May 1970 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/37a041f0-1e8b-0137-6081-735e6c157ca0 The invention of the colour purple (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/12/the-invention-of-the-colour-purple) How A Lavender Rhino Became A Symbol Of Gay Resistance In '70s Boston (https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/06/03/lavender-rhino-gay-resistance-boston) Lesbian Rebellion and the Lavender Menace (https://dressingdykes.com/2020/09/18/lesbian-rebellion-and-the-lavender-menace/) In the Wake of Stonewall: Gay Power Hits Back (https://www.villagevoice.com/in-the-wake-of-stonewall-gay-power-hits-back/) ‘The Color Purple’ Can Survive Alice Walker’s Prejudice (https://sojo.net/articles/culture-opinion/color-purple-can-survive-alice-walker-s-prejudice) If Only “The Color Purple” Had Loved All of Us (https://www.autostraddle.com/the-color-purple-review/) The 40-year fight over ‘The Color Purple’s’ queer love story (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-12-21/the-color-purple-celie-shug-queerness-musical-movie-alice-walker) The Color Purple Author Alice Walker Defends J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia (https://www.out.com/news/jk-rowling-alice-walker) The latest adaptation of ‘The Color Purple’ strips away Celie’s powerful love story (https://andscape.com/features/the-color-purple-fails-to-give-celie-the-love-story-she-deserves/) GLAAD Spirit Day (https://glaad.org/spiritday/) GLAAD 2023 Social Media Safety Index (https://glaad.org/publications/social-media-safety-index-2023/) Laith Ashley Is Taylor Swift’s Lover in Her New “Lavender Haze” Music Video (https://www.them.us/story/laith-ashley-taylor-swift-lavender-haze) Infinite Monkey Cage Serendipity in Science (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b053721m) How The Pansy Project Began (https://thepansyproject.com/about/) We Still Need Spirit Day: Remembering How It Started and Who It’s For (https://www.autostraddle.com/we-still-need-spirit-day-remembering-how-it-started-and-who-its-for-258868/) The Indiana Youth Group (https://www.indianayouthgroup.org/post/like-the-color-purple-bold-and-vibrant)