Backstory: sent to my sister and me, email subject was ‘Queer Day’.
Good morning ladies, if you are wondering what my subject line is all about, let me explain. Back in the days when I was in school, thursday’s were known as queer day. If you wore yellow on that day you were probably gay (a word that came much later). Wow how the world has changed huh? I wonder how many people today would be wearing the yellow compared to then. How was that for a little piece of history? Take it to your class rooms. I feel wild and sassy today. Hope this finds you both ready to MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!
The same word was used when I was also in school (66-70), but it did not have the “gay” connotation. Where I lived it just meant you were really different, usually by the way you acted, or you didn’t quite look like everybody, it even was used to describe some kids with physical handicaps. Man, how cruel we were as kids. I have a child with a learning disability and am seeing the effects of being teased and how they can affect kids. It is a struggle to try and keep up his self esteem, especially when other kids are calling him names. If only I would have known then what I know now.
May 7, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Hmmm…that’s queer.
May 7, 2009 at 1:47 pm
i think i’d like to hang out with this queer mumzy!
May 7, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Oh how cool mum! :D
May 7, 2009 at 5:31 pm
my mom told me the same story! only at her school, you were “queer” if you wore pink and green on Thursday.
May 7, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Oh how odd… and then other people said their schools did the same. Kids are weird, I mean queer.
May 8, 2009 at 9:26 am
In my elementary school, it was green on Thursdays. I’m still traumatized from that time I forgot…
May 9, 2009 at 4:15 pm
My phone rings and it’s my mom.
Me: Hello?
Mom: I’m speechlessly happy! I just got back from The Container Store.
May 11, 2009 at 1:57 pm
“I feel wild and sassy!” Only in America.
May 15, 2009 at 4:36 am
we did just green on thursdays…
May 18, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Jerin – elementary school? Really? Puh-lease!
August 21, 2009 at 12:19 pm
A funny story to relate..back when I was in Junior High (63-65) I wrote a song called “I Wish It Were Thursday”. It was a very trendy song for the day and I taught it to my two sisters who sang it constantly. Then I got wind of Thursday’s being “Queer” day and I was embarrassed for it to be sang as I couldn’t be more hetrosexual…fast forward to my 60th Birthday when I recieved a DVD with my song put to music and a montage of pictures of me throughout the years…I loved it! and now all the kid’s in the family are singing “I Wish It Were Thursday”:)
June 30, 2010 at 11:03 am