CTA's luck in rail line color assignments

[emathias]

Originally Posted by Chicago60614

huh? Where'd that come from? I'm 36 and gay and have been living in Boystown for around 10 years. I've never heard anything about lavender except for soap maybe or that my grandma loves the color because she likes lilacs. haha.

As gay rights have grown locally and nationally, there isn't much of a unified community as their use to be. People are free to live their lives just how they want. Being gay is just one small aspect of your life, it's not like it really makes you different than anyone else in the grand scheme of things. Some people still act like gays all think alike or all like pink or all act a certain way. I just laugh. They're just the same old random boring people as everyone else.

Originally Posted by ChicagoMeO

I don't know why lavender and pink are considered rep of the gay community, but if you look up the social service organizations, they sometimes have Lavender in the name... I will have to do a search.. I too lived in Boystown and went to stuff and I found out this way. do a google search, I just went there and theres too many names - but if you google: Gay/Lavender it will list them. not sure why lavender/purple got to be this.

and its not meant to be insulting, just telling ya about it

Come on, surely why lavender is sometimes associate with gay people in the West isn't such a mystery. In the West, boys are represented with a light blue, girls with pink. If you mix them, you get lavender. Before the contemporary understanding of the complexities of gender and sexuality, the homosexuals people were most aware of were tom-boy women and effeminate men - in other words, the gay people who were most obvious were seen as being somewhere between the genders. Is there really confusion about that? (I'm a gay man)

[TheSunshineKid]

Anyone who's offended even if the rail line's were directed in such places are reading way too much into it.

[Pink Jazz]

Originally Posted by TheSunshineKid

Anyone who's offended even if the rail line's were directed in such places are reading way too much into it.

I fully understand that the political correctness of CTA's color assignments is completely unintentional, but it is interesting how lucky CTA has been based on the demographics of the areas served by each line.