Purple String

[Pax]

This is a girl only thing, but I didn't want to put it in the lesbian section, cos it applies to bi girls too.

I don't know if anyone else has heard about it, but baisically, it's kind of like an ID thing, it's a subtle way of knowing who is a lesbian/bi girl. All it is is a piece of purple string tied around the wrist.

I read about it on another website and there was a link to the creator's myspace: Purple string (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=25298275&blogID=201312045&MyToken=076b7d0d-5f3a-485a-8ab6-3a5f2e375755) It has a better explanation on it. I just wondered how far it had spread, and if any one else would wear it

[boek]

i'd wear it. now i'm off to go look for purple string..

[Inky_Puff]

I saw a blog about it on myspace, it looks pretty good. My gf and I both wear one and im pretty sure my sister is also going to (she lives in another town)

[minkajane]

I'm still trying to pluck up the courage to buy myself one of those pink-purple-blue bi bracelets. Of course, I'm still in the military until the end of this year, so I have good reason to be nervous. When I get out, I'll be able to wear things like that.

[l-foote]

intriuging. i'd have to think about it...

[L.A.Matthews]

What a fucking stupid idea...I don't where a fucking vaj on my head to show that I'm straight...

[Samhain]

What a fucking stupid idea...I don't where a fucking vaj on my head to show that I'm straight...
thats a bit harsh, a lot of people where things to show their identity, christians wear a cross, pagans a penticle and some gay men and women wear rainbows.
and anyway LA if you where once told by society that your sexuality was wrong, you may be eager to wear something to show how proud you are about it
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[L.A.Matthews]

Pride is shown from within.

[Samhain]

Pride is shown from within.
I was very moved recently by a documentry film I saw about Nazi Germany and the fact that being gay was the lowest of the low, if you where a Jew you had to wear a yellow triangle and if you where gay a pink one and the people that wore the pink one where the scum of the earth.
people are still being persecuted for their sexuality and their religion, in places in the world people are being killed outright for being gay, In brighton where I live, a supposedly gay town people are still being beaten up in the streets and in the last two years there has been at least two people who have been killed for being gay.
I don't wear any gay pride symbols, I do wear a penticle, to acknowledge that for me to be who I am today, people have been murdered and tortured in the original witch hunts, so in my mind a lot of symbols are showing that pride comes from within.
LA in your life you may be persecuted for many things, you may have a history of people hating you for aspects of yourself, but no one will ever persecute for being straight, however if you ever realise you are gay you may understand the power of turning a symbol that did mean disgust into something that means pride, or of wearing a symbol that is new but none the less states clearly that you are not going to be silent any longer because by sleeping with men you are doing nothing wrong
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[L.A.Matthews]

That's all well, but don't you think that this is another step to increase the alienation of the gay culture from society? You ask for equal-rights, but then you broadcast it out like it's a disability.

[L.A.Matthews]

Here's one of my responses to "How often do you talk about/mention your sexuality?" thread. I think it fits perfectly with this thread also:

Originally Posted by L.A.Matthews
In my opinion, telling people who don't ask, or care, that you're gay is fueling the problem of discrimination and homophobia. By all means, be proud of your sexuality, but there's no need to parade it around like it's a novelty. You don't see people having huge "Straight Parades" for being straight. If you feel that being gay is normal to you and natural (in a personal sense, not an ethical sense), treat it just like that without the pretty ribbons and packaging.

[Samhain]

Here's one of my responses to "How often do you talk about/mention your sexuality?" thread. I think it fits perfectly with this thread also:
and I agree with you but I think wearing a ribbon is different to going and deliberatly wearing something that loos gay, ones making a statement, ones pushing buttons.
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[Samhain]

That's all well, but don't you think that this is another step to increase the alienation of the gay culture from society? You ask for equal-rights, but then you broadcast it out like it's a disability.
its saying we're prod of who we are and we'll always be a minority group, theres no differnce between a ribbon and wearing a cross a christian.
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[L.A.Matthews]

Are statements and buttons needed to be pushed?

[Samhain]

Are statements and buttons needed to be pushed?
your making the presumation that all gay people want to be accepted in to main stream society, having equal rights and not persecuting us is different to becoming main stream.
we're different to straight people, i'm not straight acting, i have no wish to be main stream or to conform.
we shouldn't be given a hard time for that and if we are its out of fear of us because people are frightened of those that are different.

my friend advertses the fact that he is Irish, I announce the fact that i am pagan far more than i do my sexuality, women have womens rights movements, these are all things that make statements.
we should not forget that beauty is in diversity.
I don't want to broadcast my sexuality and go to gay pride i don't have a need, but if i did i'm not harming others by doing so.

and what I discovered with gay pride this year is that there are still groups of people that take that oppertunity to advertise the fact that its 'wrong to be gay' while that still exists, we still need gay pride and as many ribbons we can get, so that people know we are not going away, we are going to stand our ground.
on average i delete about 2 homophobic threads every week, when that all stops then people can stop wearing ribbons.

and that why theres no 'straight pride' because you have never been persecuted for your hetrasexuality

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[L.A.Matthews]

Yeah, I see your point actually. Maybe I came across abrupt, but I meant it on a personal level of wheather I would wear the ribbon.

[ConeyIslandOfTheMind]

no one will ever persecute for being straight
S
Well, that's a bunch of bullshit. :rolleyes:

There are gays in this world who are just as heterophobic as some people are homophobic.

If you are proud of your sexuality, hell...Don't tell it, live it.

[Takumi]

Hey Everyone,

I have 2 parts for this. I think that some big shot wakes up one morning and asks himself: "how can I make money today? Oh! Let me start this trend and get people to wear these bracelets/strings/colors/ etc...” Look at all the yellow bracelets or even better... pride flags... Just because it has a pride flag, the price is higher. The other thing is, why do you need to show what you are? Are you that much in need of attention? Samhain said, you would be "eager to wear something to show how proud you are about it", action = reaction or even trouble (depending where you are). I don't know many people that wear the cross because they are devoted Christians, it's for fashion reasons more then anything. I think if you are happy with yourself (which many people aren’t), you are what you are and shouldn't care much about going the extra mile and showing it.

It's nice meeting you all.

[*~nathan~*]

i dont think it would do me any good being a gay male