When Oscar Wilde was jailed for "gross indecency," a charge historically used to criminalize gay sex, his library card was revoked. 130 years later, the British Library has re-issued it. Sponsor ...

The British Library has reinstated the suspended library card of revered Irish author Oscar Wilde, who died in 1900. Wilde’s access to the British Museum Reading Room was revoked in 1895 after the gay ...

“Oscar Wilde was a great playwright, and what happened to him was unjust by today’s standards,” says Richard Wagner. That’s why Wagner wanted to direct Moises Kaufman’s “Gross Indecency: The Three ...

In early 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, left a card at Wilde's club bearing the phrase "posing sodomite." Wilde sued the Marquess for ...

LEOMINSTER — City on a Hill Arts will present “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde” by Moisés Kaufman on Friday, June 6, Saturday, June 7, Friday, June 13, and Saturday, June 14 at City ...

NILES, Ohio (WKBN) — A former employee of a local ambulance company is facing charges of gross sexual imposition and public indecency after allegedly exposing himself to another person. On January 6, ...

: [POST-BROADCAST CLARIFICATION Oct. 22, 2025: Although widely attributed to Oscar Wilde, the quote that kicks off this story — “be yourself; everyone else is already taken” — may not, in fact, have ...