30 Days of Pride Day 2- Oscar WildeWilde was an Irish poet and playwright, his most beloved works be

30 Days of Pride Day 2- Oscar WildeWilde was an Irish poet and playwright, his most beloved works being The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. At the height of his fame and success, Wilde prosecuted the Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde’s lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men. After two more trials he was convicted and sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Not long after his release, he died at age 46 from meningitis. Whilst imprisoned, he still wrote voraciously, stating in one letter,“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”In 2017, over 100 years after his death, Wilde was among an estimated 50,000 men who were pardoned for homosexual acts that were no longer considered offences under the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales in 1967). -- source link

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