Any LGBT history before the modern era depends on interpretation. It’s hard to map our current concepts of sexual orientation on to times and cultures that may be very different.
Because of this Oscar Wilde has been variously ‘claimed’ as gay or bisexual: the imprisonment that led to his early death was for “gross indecency” – sexual acts with another man. However, his marriage and his youthful dalliance with Florence Balcombe suggest to us he was quite keen on women too.
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