Queer writer Juliet Jacques, author of four books, including Trans: A Memoir, says she recalls having a poster of Wilde’s quotes on her bedroom wall in her adolescent years. “Its central conceit and its key ideas are things which exist beyond the boundaries of the text, it lives outside of itself, which is something very rare I think.”
“ Dorian Gray is a fascinating thing because far more people know the story than have ever actually read the book. “A few years ago I wrote a play for Proper Job Theatre that was a contemporary revisioning of The Picture of Dorian Gray, which looked at a lot of the things that often pre-occupy my work masculinity, body dysmorphia, gym culture,” he tells PinkNews. The author of the collections Physical, Playtime and Pandemonium says he finds Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray “fascinating”. Professor of contemporary writing at the Manchester Writing School at the Manchester Metropolitan University, Andrew McMillan, is an award-winning gay poet whose work is greatly inspired by Wilde.Īward-winning poet Andrew McMillan. He died in November 1900 after contracting meningitis, dying in exile at the age of 46.īut his legacy lives on with creatives from all walks of life continuing to be inspired by his works. Prior to being incarcerated, Wilde reigned supreme in the literary sphere, but throughout his life he harboured a heavy secret – he was gay – and due to an unaccepting society, which criminalised homosexuality, he was forced to hide his identity.ġ6 October marked the beloved poet’s birthday. In 1895, just a few months after the debut theatre performance of The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde was sentenced to two years of hard labour for “gross indecency”, the maximum sentence at the time. Oscar Wilde was a true revolutionary – not only for his writing, but for paving the way for gay rights through his own public, and very tragic, story.
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