#LordAlfredDouglas

[planet-gay-comic]

Beauty in Sadness: A Broken Heart amidst the Shadows of Denial

Lord Alfred Douglas, also known as Bosie, was a British poet and writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born as the son of the Marquess of Queensberry, he became known for his relationship with the famous writer Oscar Wilde. Their passionate affair began in the 1890s and later became public.

The relationship between Lord Alfred Douglas and Oscar Wilde inspired Wilde to create some of his most renowned works. However, the scandal resulting from their connection led to Wilde's arrest, trial, and conviction for 'gross indecency.' These events left Lord Alfred Douglas with deep sorrow and remorse for the pain their relationship had caused.

After Wilde's sentencing to hard labor and his time in prison, Lord Alfred Douglas mourned him. He deeply regretted the consequences of their affair and felt guilt for the suffering Wilde had endured. The story of Lord Alfred Douglas is marked by love, scandal, and the broken heart that resulted from the suppression of their relationship.

The story of Lord Alfred Douglas reminds us that the suppression of homosexual relationships causes significant pain. The criminalization of homosexuality is unjust and forces innocent individuals to hide their love. As a society, we should support the diversity and individuality of every person, striving to create a world where love can flourish freely, without fear of discrimination or persecution. Let us fight for true justice and freedom for all.

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[bookwormmads]

Happy Sunday everyone 💜😋 What are your reading plans for today?? . . (Photo description: garden in the background. My hand, holding the paperback Portuguese edition of “To Lord Alfred Douglas”, by Oscar Wilde) . . #oscarwilde #lordalfreddouglas #lettertobosie #romancebooks #romance #bookstagramsofportugal #bookstagramportugal #bookstagram #book #bookstagrammers #booklover #bookcommunity #books #bookaddict #currentlyreading https://www.instagram.com/p/CFEwDTpAXTQ/?igshid=dl146n9w29gc

[ipgbook]

Happy birthday #oscarwilde! Keeping this witty wordsmith's legacy alive and exploring the bitter battle between two former lovers following #Wilde's downfall and early death that left lasting repercussions on how we remember the man and his works today. #happybirthdayoscarwilde #166yearsyoung #LordAlfredDouglas #RobertRoss #Scandal #OscarsGhost #LauraLee #quotations #famouswords #lastwords @amberleypublishing #prose #poetry #loversquarrel #factfinding #librarylove

[tyneoconnell]

#oscarwilde #PatronSaint for #Catholic #eccentrics & all who’ve #suffered the crushing belittling #loneliness of #disenfranchisement for who they are. With @daniellismore @high ChurchoftheimmaculateConception Mayfair where Oscar Wilde’s began a lifelong friendship with Jesuits of FarmSt their loyalty to him unstinting throughout his trial & 2years hardlabour in ReadingJail as Beardsley & all his friends & fans hung him out to die. He even asked to live in their #Presbytery after his release which led to threats of closure against the church as #Wildes #notoriety & #anticatholic prejudice sparked a mediastorm of frenzied bigotry. He fled England making one of several pilgrimages to the Pope before his deathbed conversion in Paris in 1900. Catholic hatred was as severe then as under Cromwell Catholics were still fleeing Britain emigrating to America & beyond to escape persecution. I’m the 1950’s Converting to Rome still represented the ultimate act of rebellion ensuring its fascination for Bohemians & aesthetes - Wilde’s long road to conversion began at 4 his mother feminist poet Lady Jane #Speranza” began secretly taking him to Mass in Ireland. It continued at Oxford & London his rooms decorated with Portraits of the Pope, Cardinal Newman & other Catholic imagery eliciting furious notes from his father threatening disinheritance if he continued his dalliance with the “Scarlet Woman”. Catholics practiced in secret then & Churches are still referred to as their street address - Jesuits were even banned from owning land in a London until 1840 after my ancestor Daniel O’Connell passed Catholic Emancipation Act enabling them to buy & transform St Georges graveyard into Mount Street Gardens Presbytery & Church home to Westminsters LGBT community Catholic imagery flows throughout Wilde’s #writing poignantly exposing his struggle for faith, acceptance & the suffering he endured at the hands of #bigots including his erstwhile lover #lordalfreddouglas whose scathingly cruel #biography about Wilde proved “Biographies are inevitably written by one’s Judas” (at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqqeUnWHqkf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1eks9yxm8v9am

[carlabrahamsson]

You surely haven't missed Nina Antonia’s amazing book about all the uncanny aspects of Oscar Wilde?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/9198692003

#oscarwilde #ninaantonia #trapartbooks #bosie #lordalfreddouglas #aleistercrowley #LGBTQ

[simonettiwalter]

Poesia Lord Alfred Douglas L'amore che non osa #poesia #lordalfreddouglas

[stephencaulfield]

Lord Alfred Douglas by Marlene Dumas at Inside, the Artangel exhibition inside the former Reading Prison. #artangel #inside #readingprison #hmreadingprison #hmprison #art #artexhibition #exhibition #prison #oscarwilde #wilde #artist #artists #insidereadingprison #marlenedumas #bosie #lordalfreddouglas #alfreddouglas @marlenedumas #painting #portrait #portraitpainting #oil #oilpainting #oiloncanvas (at HM Prison Reading)

[big-lio]

(via Lord Alfred Douglas – Due Amori)

Una storia famosa e molto triste questa di Oscar Wilde e Lord Alfred Douglas (detto Bosie). Ebbe una relazione con Oscar Wilde e da questo fatto - scoperto dal padre - nacque il processo per diffamazione che però portò alla condanna e alla carcerazione Oscar Wilde. Guardate lo spezzone dal film “Oscar Wilde” in cui viene letta la poesia "Due amori - L’Amore che non osa dire il suo nome"

"Sognai di stare su un piccolo colle e un piano ai miei piedi s’apriva simile a vasto giardino che a suo talento fioriva di fiori e boccioli. V’erano stagni sognanti [segue]

[carlabrahamsson]

Just got my hardback copy of Nina Antonia’s excellent “Dancing with Salomé – Courting the Uncanny with Oscar Wilde & Friends”… It’s so good I’m going to re-read it again!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/919869202X

#ninaantonia #oscarwilde #lordalfreddouglas #bosie #aleistercrowley #victorianoccultism #occulture #goldendawn

[carlabrahamsson]

“Wilde’s occult literary masterpiece is an epic of seduction and corruption; a cautionary tale of a beautiful yet malleable young aristocrat who is played like a harp by a Mephistophelean older man…” – Nina Antonia, “Dancing with Salomé”

https://www.amazon.com/dp/9198692003

#ninaantonia #oscarwilde #lordalfreddouglas #bosie #aleistercrowley #victorianoccultism #occulture #goldendawn

[carlabrahamsson]

Trapart Books just published Nina Antonia’s “Dancing with Salomé – Courting the Uncanny with Oscar Wilde & Friends” – an amazing book!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/9198692003

“Dancing with Salomé” unmasks the occult aspects of Oscar Wilde’s celebrated tome The Picture of Dorian Gray, whilst exploring how the unseen manifested not just in the famous author’s life but in that of his love interest, Lord Alfred Douglas. The gilded backdrop to their ill-fated liaison was the Decadent movement, a literary and artistic feast of the divine and debauched which redefined the lines of male beauty. Curiously, Aubrey Beardsley, the most renowned illustrator of the Decadents, refused to keep any of Oscar Wilde’s books in his home, as he believed, like many of his friends, that the playwright was accursed. Beardsley’s theory is not as far-fetched as it seems if one takes into account the doomed lineages from which both Oscar and Lord Alfred Douglas were descended.

Through a series of interlinking essays, Nina Antonia takes us to meet the Decadent demi-monde of the 1890’s with whom Wilde and Douglas mingled. Whilst eroticism and mysticism were key themes of the Decadents, there was also a surge of interest in ritual magic, enabled by the flowering of the “Golden Dawn” – the most significant esoteric order in England’s history. Wilde’s wife, Constance, was a member, as was W.B. Yeats, alongside Aleister Crowley and Arthur Machen. All would play a part, directly or indirectly, in the drama of Oscar Wilde’s enchanted & accursed life.

#ninaantonia #oscarwilde #lordalfreddouglas #bosie #aleistercrowley #victorianoccultism #occulture #goldendawn

[tyneoconnell]

#oscarwilde #PatronSaint of #Catholic #eccentrics & all who’ve #suffered the crushing belittling #loneliness of #disenfranchisement for who they are. With @daniellismore @highfashionhockey #ChurchoftheimmaculateComception #Mayfair where Oscar Wilde’s began a lifelong friendship with Jesuits of FarmSt their loyalty to him unstinting throughout his trial & 2years hardlabour in ReadingJail as Beardsley & all his friends & fans hung him out to die. He even asked to live in their #Presbytery after his release which led to threats of closure against the church as #Wildes #notoriety & #anticatholic prejudice sparked a mediastorm of frenzied bigotry. He fled England making one of several pilgrimages to the Pope before his deathbed conversion in Paris in 1900. Catholic hatred was as severe then as under Cromwell Catholics were still fleeing Britain emigrating to America & beyond to escape persecution. I’m the 1950’s Converting to Rome still represented the ultimate act of rebellion ensuring its fascination for Bohemians & aesthetes - Wilde’s long road to conversion began at 4 his mother feminist poet Lady Jane #Speranza” began secretly taking him to Mass in Ireland. It continued at Oxford & London his rooms decorated with Portraits of #thepope cardinalnewman & other Catholic imagery eliciting furious notes from his father threatening disinheritance if he continued his dalliance with the “Scarlet Woman”. Catholics practiced in secret then & Churches are still referred to as their street address - Jesuits were even banned from owning land in a London until 1840 after my ancestor #Danieloconnell passed #catholicemancipation Act enabling them to buy & transform #StGeorges #graveyard into #MountStreetGardens Presbytery & Church #home to #Westminster #lgbtcommunity Catholic imagery flows throughout Wilde’s #writing poignantly exposing his struggle for faith, acceptance & the suffering he endured at the hands of #bigots including his erstwhile lover #lordalfreddouglas whose scathingly cruel #biography on Wilde proved “Biographies are inevitably written by one’s #judas “ (at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqqflBjHYih/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1pvk454v9g01a

[tyneoconnell]

#oscarwilde #PatronSaint of #Catholic #eccentrics & all who’ve #suffered the crushing belittling #loneliness of #disenfranchisement for who they are. With @daniellismore @highfashionhockey #ChurchoftheimmaculateComception #Mayfair where Oscar Wilde’s began a lifelong friendship with Jesuits of FarmSt their loyalty to him unstinting throughout his trial & 2years hardlabour in ReadingJail as Beardsley & all his friends & fans hung him out to die. He even asked to live in their #Presbytery after his release which led to threats of closure against the church as #Wildes #notoriety & #anticatholic prejudice sparked a mediastorm of frenzied bigotry. He fled England making one of several pilgrimages to the Pope before his deathbed conversion in Paris in 1900. Catholic hatred was as severe then as under Cromwell Catholics were still fleeing Britain emigrating to America & beyond to escape persecution. I’m the 1950’s Converting to Rome still represented the ultimate act of rebellion ensuring its fascination for Bohemians & aesthetes - Wilde’s long road to conversion began at 4 his mother feminist poet Lady Jane #Speranza” began secretly taking him to Mass in Ireland. It continued at Oxford & London his rooms decorated with Portraits of #thepope cardinalnewman & other Catholic imagery eliciting furious notes from his father threatening disinheritance if he continued his dalliance with the “Scarlet Woman”. Catholics practiced in secret then & Churches are still referred to as their street address - Jesuits were even banned from owning land in a London until 1840 after my ancestor #Danieloconnell passed #catholicemancipation Act enabling them to buy & transform #StGeorges #graveyard into #MountStreetGardens Presbytery & Church #home to #Westminster #lgbtcommunity Catholic imagery flows throughout Wilde’s #writing poignantly exposing his struggle for faith, acceptance & the suffering he endured at the hands of #bigots including his erstwhile lover #lordalfreddouglas whose scathingly cruel #biography on Wilde proved “Biographies are inevitably written by one’s #judas “ (at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqqfQYWnkKP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9e315indsj1k

[tyneoconnell]

#oscarwilde #PatronSaint of #Catholic #eccentrics & all who’ve #suffered the crushing belittling #loneliness of #disenfranchisement for who they are. With @daniellismore @highfashionhockey #ChurchoftheimmaculateComception #Mayfair where Oscar Wilde’s began a lifelong friendship with Jesuits of FarmSt their loyalty to him unstinting throughout his trial & 2years hardlabour in ReadingJail as Beardsley & all his friends & fans hung him out to die. He even asked to live in their #Presbytery after his release which led to threats of closure against the church as #Wildes #notoriety & #anticatholic prejudice sparked a mediastorm of frenzied bigotry. He fled England making one of several pilgrimages to the Pope before his deathbed conversion in Paris in 1900. Catholic hatred was as severe then as under Cromwell Catholics were still fleeing Britain emigrating to America & beyond to escape persecution. I’m the 1950’s Converting to Rome still represented the ultimate act of rebellion ensuring its fascination for Bohemians & aesthetes - Wilde’s long road to conversion began at 4 his mother feminist poet Lady Jane #Speranza” began secretly taking him to Mass in Ireland. It continued at Oxford & London his rooms decorated with Portraits of #thepope cardinalnewman & other Catholic imagery eliciting furious notes from his father threatening disinheritance if he continued his dalliance with the “Scarlet Woman”. Catholics practiced in secret then & Churches are still referred to as their street address - Jesuits were even banned from owning land in a London until 1840 after my ancestor #Danieloconnell passed #catholicemancipation Act enabling them to buy & transform #StGeorges #graveyard into #MountStreetGardens Presbytery & Church #home to #Westminster #lgbtcommunity Catholic imagery flows throughout Wilde’s #writing poignantly exposing his struggle for faith, acceptance & the suffering he endured at the hands of #bigots including his erstwhile lover #lordalfreddouglas whose scathingly cruel #biography on Wilde proved “Biographies are inevitably written by one’s #judas “ (at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqqfC78nmtN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xboxwed5ncw0