How Osr Wil Paved the Way for Gay Rights the Arts | AnOther

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. 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

(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. 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. We are remd, particular, of Wil’s signifince the centuri-long stggle for gay rights. “The name Wil is associated forever wh homosexualy.

Homosexualy was not spoken about at all durg the Victorian perd and fact up until que recently. The Picture of Dorian Grayby Osr WilOsr Wil has long been a gay in for his treatment of homosexual sire his wrg – bravery which rulted heavy censorship om his publisher and shock amongst his 19th century dience. By AJ Birt, Send Year History As we approach the end of LGBT history month, feels only fair to wre about one of the first, and most outspoken, ‘gay ins’: Osr Wil.

HOW OSR WIL PAVED THE WAY FOR GAY RIGHTS THE ARTS

The thor’s nduct throughout his trial, as well as his liftyle general, helped to solidify him as a gay in.

It was at the trial of Wil that we see Wil further solidified as a gay in. As well as beg a well-known dandy-athete, as shown the photograph above and through his liftyle as a sociale, Wil’s nduct at the trials was blatantly homosexual.

However, Wil’s strength of character only served to sentence him for evint homosexualy.

OSR WIL’S GAY SOCIALIST VISN

Statements such as ‘I am not, happily, I thk, an ordarily nstuted beg’ further unrsred Wil’s stat as a wty, entertag, but evintly gay man.