evidence: It is an extraordinary work that was named a Sunday Times Book of the Year. So of course, if you haven’t guessed until now, we will today be delving into the relationship between playwright and poet Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas, or Bosie. Now I really wanted to look at their relationship, because it resulted in a man going to the law to defend his love and I think that’s so heroic in standing up for the fact that love is love is love. Now, I think we all kind of have our own understanding of who these men are. They both have quite strong reputations. Really, their love was remarkable and has an everlasting legacy due to their refusal to conform to the social and sexual orthodoxies of the day, which really makes Oscar and Bosie an inspiration to all who seek to challenge convention. It was really interesting for me to think about Oscar and Bosie within the timeline of the persecution of desire, and I felt so tenderly for this couple they really won a place in my heart. [...] On the eve of Wilde’s trial Bosie’s friends, relatives and Oscar’s legal team finally prevailed upon him to leave the country because they thought he might be arrested at any time or his presence wasn’t going to be helpful. And so he did reluctantly. So although in many things Douglas behaved capriciously and behaved badly, certainly at the time of Wilde’s trials, his devotion and his courage really were very striking indeed.