Osr Wil: Gay In Or Not? | The Cur Rear

Contents:

• HOW OSR WIL PAVED THE WAY FOR GAY RIGHTS THE ARTS
• WHY THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORY DERVE MORE ATTENTN
• WIL STORI 2014: THE YEAR'S BT GAY SPECULATIVE FICTN
• WIL STORI 2016: THE YEAR’S BT GAY SPECULATIVE FICTN
• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

HOW OSR WIL PAVED THE WAY FOR GAY RIGHTS THE ARTS

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. Woods, a Lambda :Lerary Award nomee for her novel Thgs to Do When You're Goth the Country, says Baldw succeed at "blurrg the l of hero and villa and brgg the plexy of human nature to horrifyg foc." Maybe that's bee Baldw said the book isn't actually about beg gay.

WHY THE “BAD GAYS” OF HISTORY DERVE MORE ATTENTN

SJ Sdu, thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li, lled , "One of the first Anglophone works to challenge the trope of the sad/suicidal gays who die at the end, this book gave a blueprt of what queer fictn uld look like."The Price of Salt's dizzygly erotilly charged prose also telegraphed her signature sense of an omo "menace" ( this se, the threat of beg ught or found out jt as the Red Sre h the Uned Stat).

Forster (A Passage to India, A Room Wh a View, Howards End) wrote the benchmark gay novel Mrice cir 1913, was published posthumoly 1971.In a lh tale of manners, posn, and sire, the tular character meets and falls for his classmate Clive while at Oxford.

WIL STORI 2014: THE YEAR'S BT GAY SPECULATIVE FICTN

The pair embark on a two-year affair until Clive leav Mrice to marry a woman and live out his proscribed life as part of the land gentry, leavg Mrice shambl and seekg to cure his homosexualy.But Forster's novel do not end gay tragedy. The thor of Night Drop, Marshall Thornton lled the novel "the origal gay romance." A note found on Forster's mancript for Mrice, which was disvered tucked a drawer, read "Publishable, but worth ?" Ismail Merchant and Jam Ivory adapted the novel to the big screen a geo film starrg Jam Wilby, Hugh Grant, and Rupert Grav.

The queer g-of-age novel about Jim Willard and his search for love was the first novel om a rpected wrer (Gore Vidal) to speak directly and sympathetilly about the gay experience an era when homosexualy was still very much taboo.

WIL STORI 2016: THE YEAR’S BT GAY SPECULATIVE FICTN

The book is remembered today for this legacy as well as for var them -- Hollywood's glass closet, beg gay the ary, the poisono effects of homophobia on society -- that still reverberate today. The only novel by the great Osr Wil may not be overtly gay, but there's plenty of gay subtext there for the reful rear - about as much gay subtext as a popular thor uld get away wh 1891.Dorian's iends Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotton exprs tense admiratn for his bety, and passag that show Basil's feelgs for Dorian as more clearly homoerotic were excised by an edor, acrdg to Nicholas Frankel, who eded an edn prentg Wil's origal text 2011.Even the text as origally published has referenc to Dorian's rptn of not only young women but young men: "There was that wretched boy the Guards who mted suici.

"This epic chronicle of gay culture the Amerin sixti is as far-reachg as is important, givg a glimpse to inty and motive," affirmed SJ Sdu, the thor of Marriage of a Thoand Li. The 1982 book by Edmund Whe, which begs wh the first sexual enunter of a 15-year-old boy, is based on his own experienc g to terms wh his gay inty as a youth the Midwtern Uned Stat. Integral to the lbian non (spe s beg nsired somewhat problematic) Brish wrer Radclyffe Hall's 1928 novel foc on Stephen Gordon, an upper-class lbian who dons men's clothg and be a novelist who eventually be a part of a lerary salon Paris at a time when there were no overt laws exprsly barrg homosexualy.

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

Hall's novel was groundbreakg her troductn of the views of "sexologists" Richard von Krafft-Ebg and Havelock Ellis, who posed that homosexualy was an born, unalterable tra that was nsired a ngenal sexual versn that simply meant a "difference" and not a fect. Wonrful book," gay refugee activist and lumnist Danny Ramadan rav about the global-md story.The book unpacks the emotnal life of a young girl displaced by the Nigerian civil war who begs a gut-wrenchg affair wh a fellow refugee.

The girls are om different ethnic muni, forcg them to face not only the taboos of beg queer but the prejudic of survivg a natn that is eatg self alive."A great rellectn of everythg anyone would say Nigeria agast homosexualy g the fense of relign," explas David Nnanna Ikpo, the Nigerian thor of Fimisile Forever. Dalloway, a novel to which Cunngham pays homage; mid-20th-century Los Angel, hoewife Lra Brown, disntented wh her life, nonts her attractn to women; and 1990s New York Cy, Clarissa Vghan, who is lbian, plans a party for her bt iend, wrer Richard Brown, a gay man dyg of AIDS.Cunngham weav their stori together seamlsly and movgly a novel that is servedly regnized as a morn classic.The 2002 film adaptatn, wrten by David Hare and directed by Stephen Daldry, received several Osr nomatns, and Nile Kidman won Bt Actrs for her portrayal of Woolf.