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The Importance of Being
Lavender, A Serious
Speech for Queer People

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The Importance of Being Earnest
 “If I am occasionally a little
over-dressed, I make up for it
by being always immensely
over-educated.”
 ― Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being
Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for
Serious People

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Eleganza Extravaganza
RuPaul

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Oscar Wilde & Lord Alfred Douglas
 Stephen Fry as Wilde and Jude Law as Lord Alfred Douglas (Wilde 1997)

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I am the Love that dare
not speak its name
 'Sweet youth,
 Tell me why, sad and sighing, thou dost rove
 These pleasant realms? I pray thee speak me
sooth
 What is thy name?' He said, 'My name is Love.'
 Then straight the first did turn himself to me
 And cried, 'He lieth, for his name is Shame,
 But I am Love, and I was wont to be
 Alone in this fair garden, till he came
 Unasked by night; I am true Love, I fill
 The hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.'
 Then sighing, said the other, 'Have thy will,
 I am the Love that dare not speak its name.'
“Two Loves”, written by Lord Alfred
'Bosie' Douglas, was published in The
Chameleon, December 1894.
The fragment to the right is well-known
for having been used against Oscar
Wilde in his 1895 trials.

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An exciting time to be gay,
lesbian, bisexual, queer or
transsexual in America

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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Algernon Moncrieff played by Rupert Everett
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

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The struggle that eventually
emerged in the century
following Wilde’s conviction
for sodomy…

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“The good ended happily, and the bad
unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”

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What Fiction means…

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“In matters of grave importance, style,
not sincerity, is the vital thing.”

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Ellen, Neil, Ru & Wanda

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“To be natural is such a very difficult
pose to keep up”

14. +
Condragulations!!

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This is the beginning, the beginning!
This is the beginning of the rest of your life!
This is the beginning, the beginning!
This is the beginning of the rest of your life!