Was Oscar Wilde Fairly Tried?
April 7, 2014
On 25 May 1895 Oscar Wilde and his co-defendant Alfred Taylor were convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour. The key evidence against them came from their former associates – “renters” Charles Parker, Fred Atkins and Alfred Wood who testified that Wilde had committed “indecent acts” with them and …
What is the History of Sexuality Again?
January 6, 2014
People have been calling themselves “historians of sexuality” since the early 1990s, and there were plenty of others who dealt with questions of sex, desire and the body before that. How is it then, that we are still asking the question, ‘what is the history of sexuality?’ Perhaps one of the first writers to place …
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