12-28-2021, 09:31 AM
Quote:CW: This entire thread revolves around the persecution of queer men.
April 1895 ...
They arrested Oscar Wilde.
Oh, God. They arrested Oscar Wilde. The man went in to defend his name (an indefensible one, certainly, but that was hardly a crime worth persecuting), and instead of just the mud he was dragged to jail in it.
Zechariah had received solicitations from London … but they laid unanswered. Were they hunting sodomites in the street there, now, too?
His orange velvet suit only made his pale, nauseous face look more sickly.
He had paid a neighborhood boy to fetch … Doctor Wells, if he recalled properly. Was that the one he had seen in the paper? The name was familiar from somewhere.
The cottage was dusty. The tea was too strong. The biscuits were fine, if a bit stale. Zechariah’s hair was too long. He fit right in with Wilde’s type with but a cursory glance. The paper announcing the news still sat open on the dining table.
