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Oscar Wilde was released after two years in prison for being gay

127
years ago

19 May 1897,

Oscar Wilde was released after two years in prison for being homosexual. The father of his lover Alfred Douglas, following a judicial conflict with the Marquis of Queensberry, was imprisoned on charges of sodomia. He collapsed, exiled to Paris and died three years later.

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