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Nascent Drama

In his hit song "Dang Me," Roger Miller sings these lines:

Roses are red, violets are purple
Sugar is sweet and so is maple surple [sic]
 
In the Byzantine Empire, Gospel manuscripts were written in gold lettering on parchment that was colored Tyrian purple.[25]
 
In the Star Trek universe, Klingons have purple blood.[26]
 
In the Star Wars universe, Jedi Master Mace Windu has a purple lightsaber.
 
Trance Gemini from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda was purple in the first few season.
 
In modern times, purple is often associated with homosexuality.
 
At the 24 June 2007 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade, Yahoo passed out 3 7/16" diameter round plastic stickers with a picture of a gay man or woman imaged as one of the Yahoo Gay Pride avatars against an HTML/CSS Purple background that said Out, Proud, and Purple.[27]
 
The Purple Party is a gay circuit party that has taken place on the third weekend in April in Dallas, Texas since 2001. It is produced by the Purple Foundation to benefit gay charities. [28]
 
In the mid 1970s, there was a gay piano bar at 2223 Market St. between Noe and Castro in San Francisco called the Purple Pickle.[29]
 
The NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns and Sacramento Kings use purple as their primary color, though the former call purple as "Forum Blue", in reference to their old arena The Forum.
 
For a time, the Milwaukee Bucks, Toronto Raptors and Utah Jazz use purple, but have since abandoned.
 
In baseball, purple is one of the primary colors for the Colorado Rockies.
 
In the National Football League, the Minnesota Vikings and Baltimore Ravens use purple as main colors.
 
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