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Was Oscar Wilde Gay? Questions Resurface After His Library Card Is Reissued 130 Years After Being Revoked Over Suspicions of Homosexuality

Oscar Wilde's reading pass for the British Library was reissued after its revocation 130 years ago.

International Business Times UK

Oscar Wilde’s library card reissued by the British Library 130 years after it was revoked

The British Library said they hoped to honour Wilde’s memory and ‘acknowledge the injustices and immense suffering he faced’

The Independent UK

After Oscar by Merlin Holland review – Wilde’s grandson on the legacy of a scandal

The playwright’s only living descendant traces the shadow cast by his trial – and his rehabilitation as a gay icon

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Tombstone tourism: Meet the travelling taphophiles obsessed with graveyards

A growing number of tourists are “rebelling against tick-box travel” by ditching the popular sights for a trip to the graveyard.

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Salomé review – breathtakingly boring spin on Oscar Wilde’s baroque tragedy

Maxim Didenko delivers Wilde’s version of the biblical tale with a blingy design, topless men in hoods and yodelling

The Guardian - UK

The Importance of Being Earnest review – Stephen Fry’s Lady Bracknell presides over merrily queered comedy

Max Webster’s frisky Oscar Wilde revival, first seen at the National Theatre, arrives in the West End with a new cast

The Guardian - UK

The Importance of Being Earnest: 'Stephen Fry's Lady Bracknell is the trump card'

3/5 An all-star cast takes on Oscar Wilde’s classic in hyper-camp style

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Take That singer Jason Orange's former West End apartment for sale for £2.85m

Jason Orange bought the newly-converted property in the Strand’s Gatti House in 2015, a year after leaving Take That

Evening Standard

House of Guinness: Real-life Guinness heirs steal spotlight at London premiere celebrating Netflix drama on brewing dynasty

Descendants of the legendary Irish brewing family, including Lady Mary Charteris and Daphne Guinness, joined the cast at London’s Picturehouse Central

Evening Standard

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The young Oscar Wilde’s Russian revolutionary drama reveals a playwright divided

Vera; or, The Nihilists concerns a plot to kill a tsar but after Alexander II was assassinated, its London premiere was cancelled. Now receiving a rare production, it captures his conflict between ethics and aesthetics

The Guardian - UK

Stephen Fry's guide to London: dining at Row on 5 and getting a trim at Geo F Trumper

The actor loves hotel stays at Claridge’s, and dates at La Petite Maison

Evening Standard

Best luxury hotels in Dublin 2025, from celebrity favourites to Michelin-starred dining

From stylish getaways to relaxing spa breaks, Dublin’s array of luxury hotels will leave you feeling pampered and rejuvenated

The Independent UK

Hotel Café Royal reopens Oscar Wilde bar as grill restaurant

Until recently used for afternoon tea, the room is now a grill restaurant, as it was when the hotel first opened

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The Guardian - UK

British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked

Exclusive: Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency

The Guardian - UK

Butt-naked Milton and a spot of fellatio: why William Blake became a queer icon

How did an ancient poet and painter who died in obscurity come to obsess everyone from Oscar Wilde to David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Derek Jarman and David Bowie? The writer of a new book explains his glorious allure

The Guardian - UK

‘Men need liberation too’: do we need more male novelists?

As a small press launches dedicated to new male fiction, authors including Anne Enright and Nikesh Shukla ask if men are really being pushed out of publishing

The Conversation

Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a work of art activism beloved by Banksy

In 2021, Banksy revealed a mural of Oscar Wilde, clad in prisoner garb, making an escape from the abandoned Reading jail. The artist claimed that he would donate profits from the sale of the stencil he used to create the work (a projected £10 million) to set up an arts…

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Mrs Warren’s Profession review – Imelda Staunton in formidable form as brothel-keeper

Filial tangles, played with the actor’s real-life daughter Bessie Carter, bring George Bernard Shaw’s once-banned drama to life

Evening Standard

OPINION - If you want to make London unwelcoming for LGBTQ people, you've picked the wrong city

London is a living, breathing anthology of stories. From Soho to Dalston, every corner whispers tales of those who dared to be different. It’s in these streets that Oscar Wilde once walked, where Virginia Woolf penned her thoughts, and where countless unnamed heroes lived authentically, even when the world wasn’t…

The Independent UK

Inside the Met Gala: Under a petal-filled sky, guests honor Black style, hail a ‘monumental night’

Once inside the Met Gala Monday evening, guests passed under a slew of flower petals suspended from the ceiling

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39 Times People Took Pictures, Only To Realize It Was ‘Accidental Renaissance’

Maybe it's true what Oscar Wilde once said, "life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

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I Used AI To Reimagine 5 Iconic Historical Figures In Full Color—Here’s How They Look

I reimagined iconic historical figures, bringing hidden details to life through AI technology. The post I Used AI To Reimagine 5 Iconic Historical Figures In Full Color—Here’s How They Look first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Iconic People Reimagined: I Colorized 5 Old Photos—Here’s The Result

I reimagined iconic historical figures, bringing hidden details to life through AI technology. The post Iconic People Reimagined: I Colorized 5 Old Photos—Here’s The Result first appeared on Bored Panda.

The Conversation

Long before debates over ‘wokeness’, Epicurus built a philosophy that welcomed slaves, women and outsiders

If you peruse the philosophy section of your local bookshop, you’ll probably find a number of books on Stoicism – an ancient philosophy enjoying a renaissance today. But where are the Epicureans?

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