What Is the Grass thor Mark Doty and Pulzer Prize wner Jericho Brown discs the gay poet's legacy.
Contents:
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
- GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
- REARCHERS REVER AN EARLY COPY OF A 19TH-CENTURY GAY RIGHTS ESSAY
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
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His ma problem was that Queensberry’s allegatns about his homosexualy were te, and therefore uldn’t be judged the trial, Queensberry’s fense acced Wil of solicg 12 other young men to m sodomy. The fense also qutned Wil about the premise of his ntroversial 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, suggtg that Wil had ed the novel’s homoerotic them to sce Lord Aled.
GAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSEGAY LERATURE: POETRY AND PROSE
Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily. * gay english writer 19th century *
Osr Wil was tried for homosexualy on April 26, plead not guilty on 25 unts of gross a prelimary bail hearg, hotel chambermaids and a hoekeeper had ttified that they had seen young men Wil’s bed and found fel stas on his the trial, Wil was qutned extensively about “the love that dare not speak s name, ” a phrase om Lord Aled Douglas’ poem “Two Lov, ” published 1894, that many terpreted as a phemism for trial end wh the jury unable to reach a verdict.
But for the award-wng gay poet Doty, textual analysis of the great Amerin bard required a personal analysis, which necsated this kd of spirual ntact.
REARCHERS REVER AN EARLY COPY OF A 19TH-CENTURY GAY RIGHTS ESSAY
By the mid-1920s, at the height of the Prohibn era, they were attractg as many as 7, 000 people of var rac and social class—gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and straight alike.