Gay Jeans Day, 30 Oct 1996cmuOUT asked people to wear jeans at Carnegie Mellon on Wed., Oct 30, to show their support for lesbians, gays and bisexuals.
Members of cmuOUT passing out blue denim ribbons in front of Doherty Hall. |
Someone painted "Fag" on the "Schlagmare" haunted house poster, which has nothing to do
with Gay Jeans Day. Anti-gay graffiti appeared in several places on campus. Outside
Warner Hall a chalk drawing said "All fags dead." |
The banners shown here are only half of all the banners that Ping made to advertise
Gay Jeans Day. The rest were torn down. |
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Greetings: The first Gay Blue Jeans Day I remember, and it may well be the First One Ever, was in 1973 at Rutgers University, Camden NJ. It was part of a day's worth of activities celebrating Walt Whitmans birthday. Activities included a noon screening of the delightful film, "Pink Flamingoes". The head of the school Gay Alliance put the entire days activities together. (I wish I could remember his name! His first name was Jerry, I believe.) I wouldn't be surprised if it was Jerry who invented the brilliant Gay Blue Jeans Day idea. Yours in Queerdom, Carl Armon
Blue denim ribbon with safety pincmuOUT set up a table in front of Doherty and gave out ribbons to people who wanted to show their support of the lesbigay community by wearing one. Some people didn't have jeans to wear, or couldn't wear them; others wanted to wear a ribbon in addition to jeans. |