THE PURPLE CIRCUIT
PRESENT
OSCAR WILDE'S
163RD BIRTHDAY SALON
THE MANY LOVES OF OSCAR WILDE
OCTOBER 18TH
5PM
THE DRAWING ROOM OF TOM HOUSE
HAND-BLENDED TEA & SANDWICHES WILL BE SERVED
FOLLOWED BY OSCAR'S FAVORITE~
"PRINCESS CAKE"
"PRINCESS CAKE"
~featuring~
OSCAR WILDE
ROBBIE ROSS
FRANK MILES
JOHN GRAY
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS~ "BOSIE"
WALT WHITMAN
OXFORD STUDENTS & YOUNG POETS
RENTBOYS/PRISONERS & GAMINS
THE MOVEMENT OF MEN LOVING MEN
OSCAR WILDE
ROBBIE ROSS
FRANK MILES
JOHN GRAY
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS~ "BOSIE"
WALT WHITMAN
OXFORD STUDENTS & YOUNG POETS
RENTBOYS/PRISONERS & GAMINS
THE MOVEMENT OF MEN LOVING MEN
HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO
TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE
1421 LAVETA TERRACE
ECHO PARK, CA 90026
info- antebellum@earthlink.net
Oscar Wilde
(16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900)
prolific Irish writer who wrote plays, fiction, essays, and poetry.
He became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes
of decadence, duplicity, and beauty.
Wilde had his first full homosexual relationship with Robbie Ross, Wilde had taken an interest in same sex relationships.
He met and kissed Walt Whitman and had lived with the painter Frank Miles.
He met and kissed Walt Whitman and had lived with the painter Frank Miles.
Constance Wilde (January 2, 1859 – April 7, 1898), was Oscars wife and the mother of his two sons Vyvian and Cyril. Oscar rarely spent the night at home.
Alfred, Lord Douglas is the most famous of Oscars lovers.
There was also John Gray, a group of young poets & numerous rentboys~ prisoners & gamins throughout Oscar's life.
Oscar was, for his era openly gay -
not the most sensible thing to be if you wanted to get on in Victorian England.
not the most sensible thing to be if you wanted to get on in Victorian England.
At the height of his fame and success, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry prosecuted for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas.
After two trials he was convicted and imprisoned for two years' hard labour,
the maximum penalty.
Oscar Wilde died destitute in Paris at the age of 46.
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