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Elliot Page's Met Gala Suit Featured a Green Carnation—Here's What That Means

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coming out as transgender in December 2020.For fashion's biggest night, Page, 34, donned a black Balenciaga suit paired with a pair of black sneakers.The Juno star accessorized with a green rose pinned to his lapel, which many are speculating is intended to be a nod to the green carnation symbol that's associated with Oscar Wilde.The green carnation became a queer symbol in 1892 and has continued to be a token for queer men ever since."The green carnation became a queer symbol in 1892 when Oscar Wilde instructed a handful of his friends to wear them on their lapels to the opening night of his comedy Lady Windermere's Fan," Sarah Prager writes in an essay on certain flowering plants and their queer symbolism, per JStor."From then on, wearing.

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