The revolutnary Osr Wil paved the way for gay rights through his own tragic story that saw him nvicted for simply beg gay.
Contents:
- OSR WIL’S ‘CCIAL’ ROLE THE GAY RIGHTS STGGLE
- OSR WILR: INIC GAY WRER
- WAS OSR WIL GAY?
- HOW REVOLUTNARY GAY POET OSR WIL LEFT BEHD A LASTG QUEER LEGACY
- HOW OSR WIL PAVED THE WAY FOR GAY RIGHTS THE ARTS
OSR WIL’S ‘CCIAL’ ROLE THE GAY RIGHTS STGGLE
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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.
OSR WILR: INIC GAY WRER
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.
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.
WAS OSR WIL GAY?
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.
HOW REVOLUTNARY GAY POET OSR WIL LEFT BEHD A LASTG QUEER LEGACY
We are remd, particular, of Wil’s signifince the centuri-long stggle for gay rights. “The name Wil is associated forever wh homosexualy.
HOW OSR WIL PAVED THE WAY FOR GAY RIGHTS THE ARTS
Homosexualy was not spoken about at all durg the Victorian perd and fact up until que recently. Wil was tried for homosexualy on April 26, Wil Trial | Photo Creds: History.