Lord #AlfredDouglas was born #OnThisDay in 1870; his father, the Marquess of Queensberry, had #OscarWilde prosecuted for sodomy in order to break up relationship with #Bosie, who repudiated Wilde & his #homosexuality... #LGBTQ #history
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#AlfredDouglas was born #OnThisDay in 1870; his father, the Marquess of Queensberry, had #OscarWilde prosecuted for sodomy in order to break up his relationship with #Bosie, who repudiated Wilde & his #homosexuality, earning him a dubious place in #LGBTQ #history...
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Leaving aside the ruinous case of #OscarWilde & #AlfredDouglas; noted writer and, later, artistic photographer Carl Van Vechten was also a crucial white patron of the Harlem Renaissance (and a patron of Harlem’s Mt. Morris Baths).
- ‘Asbury Park South’ Florine Stettheimer. 1920.

Bosie biography

Wilde & Bosie

Lord #AlfredDouglas was born #OnThisDay in 1870; his father, the Marquess of Queensberry, had #OscarWilde prosecuted for sodomy in order to break up Wilde's relationship with '#Bosie,' who repudiated Wilde & his #homosexuality... #LGBTQ #history
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