Talk:Spirit Day

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Date
Can the date be adjusted from 17 October to the "third Thursday in October" which is what GLAAD has on their website as the actual date of the event? https://www.glaad.org/blog/whats-coming-2014 "And Spirit Day will be bigger and more purple than ever! We'll continue to ask students, parents, celebrities, networks, landmarks, sports teams, magazines, television shows, web sites, and blogs to go purple to oppose bullying and stand with LGBT youth on the third Thursday of October." 12.54.94.28 (talk) 15:21, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Geographical spread
Initially directed at the USA and Canada, this 'event', promoted on Facebook and Twitter among other social networks, had a global reach. I am wary of categorising it as a USA/Canadian LGBT event. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 08:11, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

There may be other days with this title
However this article is intended to describe the one new event. Other days should be referred to, if they are notable and verifiable, under "See also".

The phenomenon of the 20 October 2010 day, with over 1.6 million Facebook users opting to attend, is a substantial phenomenon. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 08:25, 26 October 2010 (UTC)


 * So substantial, indeed, that it is cited in mainstream media, though with different numbers depending upon when the report was filed. I've added some to the article now the number can be confirmed in reliable sources. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 08:42, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

The True Motivation for Spirit Day
All of the articles that I have read, including the original Facebook event and even the NOH8 campaign newsletter proclaim that the impetus for declaring a Spirit Day was the rash of gay suicides -- not LGBT suicides.

From what I understand, no major media outlets at the time had been reporting alarming news of transgender youth bullying nor bisexual/pansexual youth bullying, nor for that matter lesbian bullying. The addition of these groups only came afterward. Just look at the bibliography for this Wikipedia article; the facts speak for themselves.

So I think it is important to recognize the motivation for this day was exclusively in response to the recent suicides of young homosexual men.

--RKrause (talk) 21:41, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

In keeping with the facts, I have again changed the article to reflect the original impetus of Spirit Day being gay suicides. Please do not change it back to LGBT without citing sources. I understand that perhaps some people want to be "politically correct", but the original Spirit Day was not created to be politically correct and that should be reflected in the history.

--RKrause (talk) 22:06, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

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french/français
hello, anyone can stranslate this page on french?

bonjour, quelqu'un peut traduire cette page en français? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:CB19:456:D000:4D02:D858:367C:9E48 (talk) 16:57, 5 October 2020 (UTC)