#wearitpurple — Public Fediverse posts

Wear It Purple Day — the school awareness day founded in 2010 after a spate of LGBTQIA+ youth suicides — is again under pressure from conservative and Christian-right campaigners pushing to have it banned from Australian classrooms.

The trigger: former principal Janelle Rowe told News 24 and the Daily Telegraph she left her 34-year career after refusing to support the day, prompting a wave of far-right press releases. Groups including the Australian Christian Lobby have cast the day as a "child protection" issue.

This QNews opinion piece pushes back, arguing the real harm is silence: LGBTQIA+ students already face homophobic abuse from primary school, and telling children their classmates are welcome is not what traumatises them.

#auspol #wearitpurple

https://qnews.com.au/why-are-we-comfortable-exposing-children-to-homophobia-but-not-protecting-them-from-it/

www.rainbowshoelaceproject.com.au
#WearItPurple #WearItPurpleDay

Happy #funkyshirtfriday *and* #wearitpurple day!

Morgen ist "Wear it Purple Day". Eure Aufgabe ist dann also: zieht etwas lilafarbenes an.

Warum?

Am letzten Freitag im August, dem "Wear it Purple Day" tragen queere Menschen und Allies lilafarbene T-Shirts (oder andere Kleidungsstücke), um auf Mobbing gegen queere Jugendliche in Schulen aufmerksam zu machen.

Mehr dazu hier: https://www.wearitpurple.org/our-story-1

#wearitpurple #pride #ally #allies

Today's Desk-Bot for #WearItPurple day is Shockwave.

He might be amoral, but he finds homophobia...illogical.

#Transformers

My Happily Made monkeys are helping me celebrate Wear It Purple Day 2025 💜 This year's theme is Bold Voices, Bright Futures. Our LGBTQIA+ young people have so much ahead of them if we create a society that includes and supports them.

#wearitpurple
#lgbtqiap
#queer
#minus18
#happilymade
#knit

Wear It Purple Day,
Because people have it hard enough, especially our youth, without being persecuted for being who they truly are.
#WearItPurple #WearItPurpleDay #LGBTQIA+

Wear It Purple strives to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for rainbow young people. #WearItPurple

https://www.wearitpurple.org/our-story

Friends!

This Friday is #WearItPurple
day - a day to show your support for young #LGBTIQA+
folks! (in other places in the world it is sometimes called Spirit Day).

Here are some handy resources for you, your schools, workplaces and homes: https://www.wearitpurple.org/wip-day-resources

pass it on! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#LGBTQ+ #safety #underthreat in #Sydney after #hateful #attack on #Pride #event.

The #event, called #WearItPurple, was abruptly #shutdown after a group of #men were seen #tearing down #LGBTQ+ #flags, #shouting #abuse, and generally #causing #trouble.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Australia #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Homophobia #Transphobia #HateSpeech #Hatecrimes

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/03/sydney-pride-event-lgbtq-attack/

Wear It Purple day! 💜 #WearItPurple

Today is #WearItPurple day and I wanted to wear purple to show solidarity with young queer people

I actually have a lot of purple clothing – especially that bright aniline violet colour, which I adore – but it's a colour I feel very self-conscious about wearing because I am fat, and so purple makes me look like Grimace

There's one particular dress I got at an op-shop and I don't think I've ever worn it out of the house. It's a giant knee-length sack made of stretchy T-shirt material, and it's so comfortable

But I look inescapably like Grimace in it

Maybe it's time to banish it to the Pyjama Wardrobe, where all my disgraced daytime clothes live, like white t-shirts that never come up properly white again, and the promo t-shirts I get at movie events

Just made it to campus here at Macquarie Uni and the whole place is wearing purple!

I got my purple on, incl. the live long and prosper pride pin!

Solidarity, support and acknowledgement to all the LGBTIQA + young folks in our communities. You matter. You add value. You are our next gen!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜

#WearItPurple #PRIDE #LGBTIQA+

On #WearItPurple Day, it's apparent I should have gone for a purple Yes campaign t-shirt, rather than the black one.