#this is lowkey a planning doc for an article i am writing for my school's media blog i'm gonna publish to

[dykeofmisfortune]

it's just. velvet goldmine is about queerness of the past and queerness of the present. ESPECIALLY as a highly sexual movie about queer men made in the 90s. that it's about the 70s and 80s. a movie that literally has the characters discuss change and nostalgia. the promise of a future. the early 1970s as a glimmer that the characters acknowledge will never come back. oscar wilde and his gemstone of gay sex that gets passed on through the centuries. the unrelenting hope for a future. the "present" being the 80s from a movie made in the 90s. it's an AIDs piece, sure, but it's a queer piece over all. how queerness manifests itself time and time again. how it's literally about a chain of events, as evident by the gemstone of gay sex getting passed along. velvet goldmine is about the promise of a future.