Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.

My name is Eli.

I'm Irene.

I'm Alice.

And today we're talking about the 19th century poet, playwright and queer icon, Oscar Wild.

Before we get started, we have a few content warnings for this episode.

We will be talking about period typical homophobia and period typical misogyny.

We'll also be discussing relationships with significant age gaps, and there will be brief mentions

of murder and suicide.

If any of that sounds like something you don't want to hear, feel free to skip this episode

and check out any of our other episodes.

First things first, we would like to thank The Mad Prince of Denmark on Tumblr and

Alyssa, who emailed us suggesting this episode, although of course we were going to talk about

Oscar Wild at some point, as well as some anonymous people on Tumblr. We cannot thank

more specifically. As you have probably guessed from the title and description of this podcast,

this is the first of two episodes we're going to do on Oscar Wilde.

The second part will be coming out on the 15th of October.

The first episode, the one we're doing today,

is going to cover from the start of Oscar Wilde's life

up until when he writes Dorian Gray and meets Alfred Douglas.

So I'm going to leave you on a cliffhanger.

And then next time we're going to talk about his relationship with Alfred Douglas and

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