Oscar Wilde
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Gay History Month – October 22: The Brutal NYC Gay Bathhouse Raid of 1916 and Lord Alfred Douglas the Original Evil Queen
October 22, 1870: Lord Alfred Douglas is born near London on this day. Forever known as Bosie, the lover of…
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Gay History Month – October 16: Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde and Nazi Germany’s Paragraph 175
October 16, 1856: Oscar Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880's, Oscar Wilde became…
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Gay History – February 18, 1895: Oscar Wilde Is Accused of Being A “Sodomite”
On this day in 1895, British playwright Oscar Wilde was dining at the Albermarle Club in London when the Marquess of Queensbury…
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