![]() ![]() On one occasion Queensberry was stopped from pelting Wilde with vegetables at a London theatre. At some stage Wilde got drawn into the feud between Bosie and his grotesque father, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry, who regarded the two men’s suspected homosexual relationship as an abomination. Their love survived this disappointment as it eased into a platonic tension. Their interludes together featured ravishing conversations in London’s finest restaurants and bouts of illegal non-penetrative sex (probably intercrural, aka coitus interfemoris involving the joy of legs) in London’s finest hotels.īosie introduced his lover to the world of gay incensed brothels and their ‘renters’ (male sex workers), perhaps because Wilde was not physically to his taste. Two men – the famous, middle-aged playwright Oscar Wilde and the young, pretty aristocrat Lord Alfred Douglas nicknamed Bosie – had fallen in love. A scandal erupted that makes the lurid Depp/Heard court case of 2022 look like a village panto. In Britain’s 1890s, Queen Victoria’s long, dreary, po-faced reign of sexual hypocrisy experienced a reality wake-up call on a spectacular scale. Source: Gillman & Co, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commonsįinding the soul purposes of doomed or very troubled relationships through the horoscope. ![]() Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas in 1893
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