Posts about gay prit wrten by Lord Henry Wotton
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TAG: GAY PRIT
The latter associatn, read by other mentators particularly the fal pag as punishment for narcissism, hedonism, or homosexual activy, is here glossed as an accatn agast Victorian junctns agast same sex sexual activy nstutive of homosexual inty: the marks of disease acce the sphere of cultural reprentatn, which then mark and mar the dividual body. Dorian Gray as a text then lnch a kd of "homosexual panic" on the part of subsequent wrers "nt mornism, " notably Gabriele D'Annunz, whose Il Piacere attempts to re-valorize the ephebe as the bearer of non—and mt now do so as an avowedly heterosexual male, but the ntext of the danger of the dandy: the Wil figure as "Humphrey Heathfield" mt be troduced orr to have been experienced, even if only disgt. D'Annunz's turn toward fascist polics is not accintal this rpect: the lerary phenomenon of "fascist mornism" appears to hew very closely to the fear of the cultural ascendancy of the dandy, often read such texts as a subcultural homosexual male, who mt be both experienced and extguished.
Dorian Gray featur a fixatn on male bety and a repeated pattern of hostile beliefs and remarks toward women, marriage, and fily, all likely due, at least part, to the thor’s homosexual nature and his perceptn of happs, pleasure, and moraly as a gay man an era where homosexual sire is nsired an immoral viancy; somethg to be ashamed of, hidn, changed, and by extensn – studied.
BEG GAY WAS THE GRAVT S WASHGTON
Osr Wil explor the nuanc of human sexualy, cludg his own, unr the ver of cis-straight male iendships between ma characters Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton, and artist Basil Hallward by maskg homoerotic behavr wh heteronormative relatnships to e to terms wh his own morals and societal expectatns.
Bee the Victorian Era viewed homosexualy wh disgt, The Crimal Law Amendment Act of 1885 outlawed sexual relatns between men, though not between women, and if charged, a person would be guilty of a mismeanor punishable by any term of ls than two years wh the potential for hard labor. Acrdg to the article “A Theory of Sndal: Victorians, Homosexualy, and the Fall of Osr Wil” by Ari Adut, they claim that Bra was the only untry to crimalize all male homosexual acts even though was rare and wh reluctancy that anyone was actually prosecuted. Adut believ that Wil was arrted and charged to the fullt extent of the law not bee of his high-profile stat, nor his years of nearly open homosexual behavr, which his social circle had been entirely privy to and were ntent to speak about behd closed doors, but bee Wil’s libel trial agast a lover’s father brought negative public social reactns and, by proxy, angry third parti who wished to punish Wil (219).