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 Wilde’s access to the British Museum Reading Room was revoked in 1895 after the gay ...
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 ...
When Oscar Wilde was jailed for, "gross indecency," a 19th century euphemism for gay sex, his library card was revoked. 130 years later, the... Author Oscar Wilde Gets Back His Library Card Over A ...
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 ...
One of the greatest things about live local theater is its power to surprise us, to defy our expectations and shake our sense of what we think we know. That said, sometimes it’s not a bad idea to have ...