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Oxford University Press, Oxford
'I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad', Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom - which erupted in laughter - accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a...
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'I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad', Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom - which erupted in laughter - accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a sodomite, and why was Queensbury's horror greeted with such amusement? Dominic Janes suggests that what divided the two sides in this case was not so much the question of whether Wilde was or was not a sodomite, but whether or not it mattered that people could appear to be sodomites.
