Oscar Wilde
long lecture tour of the United States and Canada. Full of talent, passion and, most of all, full
of himself, he courted and married the beautiful Constance Lloyd.
A few years later, Wilde's wit, flamboyance and creative genius were widely renowned.
His literary career had achieved notoriety with the publication of "The Picture Of Dorian
Gray". Oscar and Constance now had two sons whom they both loved very much. But one
evening, Robert Ross, a young Canadian houseguest, seduced Oscar and forced him finally to
confront the homosexual feelings that had gripped him since his schooldays.
Oscar's work thrived on the realisation that he was gay, but his private life flew
increasingly in the face of the decidedly anti-homosexual conventions of late Victorian
society. As his literary career flourished, the risk of a huge scandal grew ever larger.
In 1892, on the first night of his acclaimed play "Lady Windermere's Fan", Oscar was re-
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