‘The Love that Dare Not Speak Its Name’: Osr Wil as a Gay In — The Bristorian

Contents:

• OSR WILR: INIC GAY WRER
• OSR WIL GAY QUOT & SAYGS
• OSR WIL’S ‘CCIAL’ ROLE THE GAY RIGHTS STGGLE
• ‘THE LOVE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME’: OSR WIL AS A GAY IN
• HOW OSR WIL PAVED THE WAY FOR GAY RIGHTS THE ARTS
• OSR WIL’S GAY SOCIALIST VISN

OSR WILR: INIC GAY WRER

He is also one of the most celebrated and inic gay men of Brish history. Osr Wil, apart om beg famo as a dramatist, playwright, w and poet, is also famo as beg an inic gay man.

Homosexualy was nsired a crime durg the Victorian era.

OSR WIL GAY QUOT & SAYGS

As he famoly had a homosexual relatnship or ‘affair’ wh the son of an aristocrat, his personal life beme public knowledge, and he was ultimately tried, sentenced and imprisoned.

OSR WIL’S ‘CCIAL’ ROLE THE GAY RIGHTS STGGLE

Wil apparently beme active as a gay man  1886. Wil, who famoly had a gay relatnship wh Lord Aled Douglas, otherwise known as ‘Bosie’, was acced by his father, who happened to be the Marquis of Queensberry, of homosexualy. Wil was tried for homosexualy on April 26, Wil Trial | Photo Creds: History.

‘THE LOVE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME’: OSR WIL AS A GAY IN

Wil was a was the time when homosexualy was a crimal offense.

However, Osr is bt known for his 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian AffairFor obv reasons, Osr kept his homosexualy a secret. The rd said, For Osr Wil, posg somdome [sic] expected, this totally ed Osr’s public relatns sce homosexualy was a crimal offense England back then.

Homosexualy was legalized France 1791 durg the French said no, he won’t flee and cid to sue Douglas’ father for famatn.

HOW OSR WIL PAVED THE WAY FOR GAY RIGHTS THE ARTS

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. (France had crimalized homosexualy 1791 durg the French Revolutn. 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.

OSR WIL’S GAY SOCIALIST VISN

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.

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.