Nick Benton’s Gay Science No. 68: The Emerald Pin in ‘Velvet Goldmine’

Gay screenwriter Todd Haynes in his brilliant film, “Velvet Goldmine” (1998), has his own colorful way of depicting the “otherness” of our tribe in its opening segment. The baby Oscar Wilde, the famous gay “pop idol” of his day, arrives in a space ship and is planted on a doorstep in a basket with an emerald pin attached to his blanket.

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