How far homosexualityhas come from muzzlement.
Not so long ago tormentors assumed that a lacuna would be explicit of' ' indecency':
The Marqui of Queensbory's letter to Oscar Wilde
‘"Oscar Wilde posing as —"
that initiated Wilde's disastrous trial.
What we witness here is the Victorian crisis of utterance
The word sodomite, was ineffable, incapable of being expressed, indescribable or unutterable, the word, left like some beached whale, floundering in periphrasis.
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