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OSR WIL’S ‘CCIAL’ ROLE THE GAY RIGHTS STGGLE
Wil, a homosexual, was put on trial for gross cency 1895 after the tails of his affair wh a Brish aristocrat were ma public. Homosexualy was a crimal offense at this time England.
He bucked tight-laced Victorian fashn by wearg lorful velvets and silks and keepg his hair Aled Douglas Wil kept his homosexualy a secret. Homosexual acts were a crimal offense England at the time and remaed illegal there until the 1960s.