jan 1, 1895 - Oscar Wilde Arrested

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Oscar Wilde, tried for gross indecency over a relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, was sentenced to two years in prison with hard labour.

“I thought at the time, and still think, that the monstrous development which ruined him was pathological, and that a hospital rather than a police court was the place for its consideration.”
(ACD on Oscar Wilde’s homosexuality)

A 1965 UK opinion poll finds that 93% of respondents still saw homosexuality as a form of illness requiring medical treatment 70 year later.

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