The Trials of Oscar Wilde and Socrates: Love and Death.
6 min readJul 16, 2021
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde
On 18 February 1895, the Marquess of Queensbury — yes that Queensbury of the boxing rules— left his calling card at Oscar Wilde’s club, the Albemarle, inscribed:
“For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite” (sic) see below.
