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Oscar Wilde once noted that there are two tragedies in life, one is not getting what you want, the other is getting what you want. The left thinks that the end result of tranzmania is that the captain of the football team and the head cheerleader will still be hooking up, but both will be male, and neither will be homosexual (otherwise known as gay conversion therapy). One outcome of acceptance of anyone's imagination run wild gender identity is that one can identify as any gender one feels! I first discovered I felt like I might be TranzCisTrumpGendered the day...

A writer hired to translate Amanda Gorman's poem "The Hill We Climb" into Catalan said he has been removed from the position by publisher Univers. Victor Obiols, whose previous work includes Catalan translations of William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, told CNN Thursday that the commission was initially approved by Gorman's representatives, but they later decided he wasn't right for the job.

The recent pardon of the late world heavy weight champion Jack Johnson by our president was a gracious act long overdue. A previous motion had passed the House but died in the Senate in 2008. Johnson’s racially motivated conviction for violating the Mann Act after he had married a white woman resulted in his beginning a year term in Leavenworth prison in 1920. It was not a salutary place; I buried one of its inmates who had done much more than a year there. Johnson skipped bail and spent several years in Europe via Canada. In Barcelona, much in need...

Hilarious Oscar Wilde sketch performed by the Monty Python troupe. Sure to make you smile.

A reminder about the totalitarian temptationThe Washington Post’s culture critic, Philip Kennicott, recently took to the pages of his paper to note the “cognitive dissonance” between ingrained “habits of homophobia” in American culture, on the one hand, and a recognition that “overt bigotry is no longer acceptable in the public square,” on the other. As an example of those who resolve this dissonance by holding fast to their homophobic prejudices, Kennicott cited Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, who had remarked on the similarities between the Empire State’s recent re-definition of marriage and the kind of human engineering attempted by...

Oscar Wilde is one of most famous homosexuals in history, so it sometimes surprises people when they learn that Wilde had a wife named Constance and two children. Divorced before Wilde reached the pinnacle of his fame, Constance is one of history’s forgotten women: a spirited, intelligent person in her own right, but one doomed to live in the shadow of Wilde’s legacy, as well as endure the humiliating consequences of his homosexual passions. Thomas Kilroy’s play, The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde, now playing on the Guthrie’s Proscenium Stage, is a moody, serious, artful exploration of the dark side...

Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, gay icon and deathbed convert to Catholicism, has been paid a rare tribute by the Vatican. His aphorisms are quoted in a collection of maxims and witticisms for Christians that has been published by one of the Pope’s closest aides. Wilde (1854-1900) had long been regarded with distaste by the Vatican — a dissolute and disgraced homosexual who was sentenced for acts of gross indecency over his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas. The book, compiled by Father Leonardo Sapienza, head of protocol at the Vatican, includes such Wildean gems as “I can resist everything except temptation”...

When first published in England two years ago, Neil McKenna’s The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde won universal critical acclaim. The praise was more than deserved, for this stunning piece of investigative historiography reveals for the very first time how Wilde was a militant precursor of the modern gay liberation movement long before his famous speech from the dock in defense of “the love that dare not speak its name.” Making use of hitherto unpublished and unconsulted documents, diaries and letters, this extraordinary book—just published in the United States—also gives a new and revealing portrait of Wilde’s sexuality that supercedes...

I recently finished reading Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. In the preface of the novel, Wilde states: "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all." "The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium." Wilde addresses the "subject matter" of the moral life when he describes the gradual corruption of Dorian Gray,who turns to hedonism and murder. Contrary to Wilde, readers can and do delve beyond...

Schools will be encouraged to hold lessons exploring the achievements of gay men and women throughout history as part of the first gay history month. The project, to be held in February, will highlight the hidden history of household names who would probably today identity as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, such as William Shakespeare, who was rumoured to be bisexual, and Florence Nightingale, who few people know was a lesbian. Other events covered during the month will include talks on the early years of gays and lesbians in British television and discussions of the history of the British LGBT...

LONDON (Reuters) - For Oscar Wilde, there was no such thing as bad publicity. In life he thrived on notoriety and once famously said: "There is only one thing worse in the world than being talked about and that is NOT being talked about." He would, therefore, have thoroughly approved of the chorus of howls which greeted a musical about his life that closed in London after just one night -- one of the shortest runs on record. The musical deals with the last six years in the life of the Irish playwright who died aged 46 in a Paris...