Australians Have Been Instructed to Wear Purple Today or Face the Consequences
The long march of gender through the instititutions, Down Under
Today is Wear it Purple Day in Australia, an annual fundraising and awareness event for LGBTIQAlphabetical young people. Held every August since 2010, Wear it Purple Day was inaugurated after the suicide of Tyler Clementi, an American teenager from New Jersey who had been captured kissing another male on video.
Whereas the Wear it Purple Day tradition b…
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