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I was halfway through reading an article about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde doing it, and was like, “that’s quite a bit from so little to go on..”

But then I went looking for contemporary accounts of the meeting, and it looks like somebody then decided to write a little fanfic about it, so nevermind!

The Valley Spirit, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1882 

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, December 4, 1880 The man offering this sage advice, Henry Labouchere, might be better known for helping bring to pass the Labouchere Amendment, which made any homosexual acts or behaviour (not just sodomy, as...   High-res

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, December 4, 1880

The man offering this sage advice, Henry Labouchere, might be better known for helping bring to pass the Labouchere Amendment, which made any homosexual acts or behaviour (not just sodomy, as previously, and which had to be actually proven) illegal in Britain and much easier to prosecute. Oscar Wilde was prosecuted in large part due to the passage and Alan Turing’s hormone therapy (chemical castration) was his punishment for violating the Labouchere Amendment.