I found this article while surfing around Google News today and now I have to start making travel plans for next summer:
In pictures: Redheads celebrate fiery locks at Dutch festival
Sign me right the hell up, right now! A festival for red heads? Red Head Days! My people are gathering en masse! I need to be a part of this! It doesn’t matter that my step daughter did a study abroad program in The Netherlands and hearing about her travels has made me want to visit the country (and pretty much all of Western Europe). I would want to travel to this festival even if it was held in a condemned parking garage in Cleveland.
I need to be counted among the festival-goers! I need to celebrate my red headedness with my red headed brothers and sisters! What a joyous thrill this would be! I am so excited!
Sign! Me! Up!!!
Inside the Red Head's Head 
And here I, one with atypically red hair, thought the closest people like me got to being celebrated was Kick a Ginger Day.
While growing up, my hair color was insulted, but not complimented [other than by some adults, which to me was no consolation].
Even today, with the entertainment industry’s noticeable concerted effort to feature non-Caucasian characters for heroic or protagonist roles, my kind basically continue to be relegated to bully or bad-guy roles, e.g. “Redmond” in the mystery/horror movie Knock at the Cabin. … That is, when a redhead does get a role.
Then again, maybe we reds should be grateful to be represented at all on the big and small screens.
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