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	==See also==		==See also==
	*[[Green Carnation Prize]]		*[[Green Carnation Prize]]
	*[[Green ~~carnation~~ (bar)]]		*[[Green Carnation (bar)]]

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Ross Burgess at 13:06, 20 November 2015

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	The '''green carnation''' has become a gay symbol since it was popularised by [[Oscar Wilde]] in the 1890s. Green carnations do not exist in nature; they are prduced by plunging a white carnation into malachite dye.<ref>"From Month to Month, a Summary (The green carnation to which we have referred)", ''[[The Artist and Home Journal]]'', 13, 1 April 1892: 114–115.</ref>		[[File:Green Carnation.jpg\|thumb\|A green carnation]]The '''green carnation''' has become a gay symbol since it was popularised by [[Oscar Wilde]] in the 1890s. Green carnations do not exist in nature; they are prduced by plunging a white carnation into malachite dye.<ref>"From Month to Month, a Summary (The green carnation to which we have referred)", ''[[The Artist and Home Journal]]'', 13, 1 April 1892: 114–115.</ref>

	The shape of the carnation has been said to symbolise the anus, while the colour green was thought to be favoured by homosexuals.<ref>Graham Robb, ''Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century'' (London: Picador, 2003): page 151.</ref><ref name=DP />		The shape of the carnation has been said to symbolise the anus, while the colour green was thought to be favoured by homosexuals.<ref>Graham Robb, ''Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century'' (London: Picador, 2003): page 151.</ref><ref name=DP />

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	At the opening night of his play ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' in 1892, Wilde persuaded members of his circle to wear green carnations in their buttonholes.<ref name=DP>[[David Haldane Lawrence]], ''[[Diverse Performances]]'', pages 46–49.</ref> When asked what all this meant, Wilde replied, "Nothing whatever, but that is just what nobody will guess."<ref name=DP />		At the opening night of his play ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' in 1892, Wilde persuaded members of his circle to wear green carnations in their buttonholes.<ref name=DP>[[David Haldane Lawrence]], ''[[Diverse Performances]]'', pages 46–49.</ref> When asked what all this meant, Wilde replied, "Nothing whatever, but that is just what nobody will guess."<ref name=DP />

			The novel ''[[The Green Carnation (novel)\|The Green Carnation]]'' includes characters based on Oscar Wilde and [[Lord Alfred Douglas]]. It is referred to disparagingly in Wilde's play ''The Importance of being Earnest'', first performed that year.

	In 1895 an article in ''Punch'' mocked at the "Decadents" who		In 1895 an article in ''Punch'' mocked at the "Decadents" who
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	By 1910, C D Wilton, writing in the journal ''Modern Man'', noted that wearers of the green carnation had		By 1910, C D Wilton, writing in the journal ''Modern Man'', noted that wearers of the green carnation had
	:"brought the inoffensive buttonhole into grave disrepute – so much so that our tailors to-day make no proper provision in dress suits for a floral decoration."		:"brought the inoffensive buttonhole into grave disrepute – so much so that our tailors to-day make no proper provision in dress suits for a floral decoration."

			In more recent times the green carnation has been re-adopted as a gay symbol.

			==See also==
			*[[Green Carnation Prize]]
			*[[Green carnation (bar)]]

	==References==		==References==
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	[[Category:~~LGBT~~ symbols]]		[[Category:Flags and symbols]]

Ross Burgess at 12:44, 20 November 2015

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	The '''green carnation''' has become a gay symbol since it was popularised by [[Oscar Wilde]] in the 1890s. Green carnations do not exist in nature'		The '''green carnation''' has become a gay symbol since it was popularised by [[Oscar Wilde]] in the 1890s. Green carnations do not exist in nature; they are prduced by plunging a white carnation into malachite dye.<ref>"From Month to Month, a Summary (The green carnation to which we have referred)", ''[[The Artist and Home Journal]]'', 13, 1 April 1892: 114–115.</ref>

			The shape of the carnation has been said to symbolise the anus, while the colour green was thought to be favoured by homosexuals.<ref>Graham Robb, ''Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century'' (London: Picador, 2003): page 151.</ref><ref name=DP />

			At the opening night of his play ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' in 1892, Wilde persuaded members of his circle to wear green carnations in their buttonholes.<ref name=DP>[[David Haldane Lawrence]], ''[[Diverse Performances]]'', pages 46–49.</ref> When asked what all this meant, Wilde replied, "Nothing whatever, but that is just what nobody will guess."<ref name=DP />

			In 1895 an article in ''Punch'' mocked at the "Decadents" who
			:"nightly gathered at any of the theatres where the plays of Mr WILDE were being given. Nightly, the Stalls were fulfilled by Row upon Row of neatly-curled Fringes surmounting Button-holes of monstrous size."<ref>Max Meerboom, "From the Queer and Yellow Book – Book I 1894", ''Punch'', 2 February 1895: page 58.</ref>

			By 1910, C D Wilton, writing in the journal ''Modern Man'', noted that wearers of the green carnation had
			:"brought the inoffensive buttonhole into grave disrepute – so much so that our tailors to-day make no proper provision in dress suits for a floral decoration."

			==References==
			<references>
	[[Category:LGBT symbols]]		[[Category:LGBT symbols]]

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