Periwinkle, cornflower, turquoise, aqua, azure, etc.
And now they’ve claimed every color of the rainbow! I’m all for Gay Pride, but no fair, gay guys. Leave at least a couple colors for us heteros (I guess for very conservative heteros, those colors would be black and white).
We’ll always have egg shell.
“We’ll always have camo, sweetheart…”
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Hey, #gaycolorsmatter.
I wear a lot of pink, never gave it a second thought. I met my wife (some 33 years ago) whilst wearing a salmon pink Lacoste cardigan. (mind you she does say that I’m the gayest straight man she knows…and now I’m wondering on what data she is basing that )
In Australia, for many years the retail directory was the Pink Pages.
It was changed to the Yellow Pages in the 1970s (not sure why).
It was the Pink Pages throughout my primary school. I’m sure that if pink was identified as the ‘gay’ colour (even though the word ‘gay’ wasn’t), there would have been endless jokes about ‘What services can you find in the Pink Pages?’.
I believe in Russian, light blue and dark blue have separate basic color names.
As to the folks who are saying thinks like “lavender,” that’s not a basic color word in English: black, white, grey, blue, orange, red, green, purple, yellow, brown, pink, tan.
Where have you got that list from? I wouldn’t put Tan as being any more common than Lavender, really.
Maybe it’s because I grew up in the ‘70s that I consider it basic. I couldn’t really tell you what color lavender is, but tan is immediately recognizable to me.
Looking at Wikipedia’s basic color list, they have only eleven, omitting tan.
What colors do the other days have?
But you left out “avocado”?
As pointed out earlier, pink has only been a basic colour word for a few centuries, so the list is expandable. There’s hope for your “tan” yet, but it’s not one of the likely next candidates.
In Russian, the color used to suggest gay men is light blue.
Actually, before the 15th century, orange was not considered a separate color, but called red-yellow. Then the Portuguese introduced orange trees to Europe, and “orange” caught on as a color.
Slight nitpick - orange was called “yellow-red” ( ġeolurēad). Some orange things were also just called “red”.
Later, (before the introduction of “orange”,) some were also called “yellow-saffron”, or just “saffron”.
But I don’t know if ġeolurēad was thought of as just a mix, or was really considered a separate colour with a composite name. I don’t think distinct colour and distinct name are necessarily the same thing.
Colors of the Day in Thailand:
Sunday – red
Monday – yellow or cream
Tuesday – pink
Wednesday (day) – green
Wednesday (night) – gray
Thursday – orange or brown
Friday – light blue
Saturday – purple or black
Thanks, that’s really interesting. I don’t remember reading anything else where colors mark the days.