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Shiena Iane B Enerio

Was Oscar Wilde Gay? Questions Resurface After His Library Card Is Reissued 130 Years After Being Revoked Over Suspicions of Homosexuality

Irish playwright Oscar Wilde (Credit: WikiImages from Pixabay)

The British Library symbolically reissued the reading pass of controversial playwright Oscar Wilde, over a hundred years after it was cancelled due to his imprisonment.

The reading pass was presented to Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, on Thursday. In a statement posted on BBC, the British Library said that it aimed to 'acknowledge the injustices and immense suffering' that the poet and novelist went through because of his persecution.

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