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Oct 29, 2006
Articles: One love, two lives
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By VZ
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HOW SHOULD GAY PEOPLE, OR ANYone sympathetic to gay rights, regard Alfred "Bosie" Douglas? On the one hand, he was Oscar Wilde's lover, the brilliant young poet who coined the phrase "I am the love that dare not speak its name" and publicly defended the man he loved long after Wilde was jailed for gross indecency. On the other hand, he later renounced homosexuality, become a fervent (and married) Catholic, and denounced Wilde as "the agent of the devil in every possible way".
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