Oscar Wilde was one of Victorian Britain’s most famous writers. He is best known for the play The Importance of Being Earnest, the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol, which he wrote in prison while reflecting on justice and human suffering. The modern label “gay” did not exist during Oscar Wilde’s lifetime in the late 1800s. However, during his trial, Wilde made an emotional public defense of love between men, calling it “the love that dare not speak its na