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It’s Kiss a Ginger Day, and gay redheads are celebrating all over social media
is National Love Your Red Hair Day, as we’ve previously covered, but January 12 is Kiss a Ginger Day.Comedian and activist Derek Forgie launched Kiss a Ginger Day on Facebook in 2009 as a response to anti-redhead discrimination and bullying. “When you feel like you’ve been ridiculed about something you have no choice over, you feel guilty about something that you really didn’t do wrong, which is a weird thing to do to people,” he said in a YouTube video about the holiday.Sign up for the Queerty newsletter to get your fix of heartthrobs with a side of the hottest queer news and culture.Forgie got the idea for the holiday after hearing that young redheads were getting beat up on a so-called Kick a Ginger Day.