Sarony’s images, eventually numbering dozens from 1882 to 1883, cast Wilde in the public imagination as a sartorial icon radiating charisma and intelligence. They even left one Midwest journalist to ...

There's something about the name WrestleMania that just feels good. It's like a cosy pair of slippers or a hug in pro wrestling form. In WWE circles, you'll see workers stare off into the distance ...

This article includes links that may result in a small affiliate share for purchased products, which helps support independent LGBTQ+ media. In the early days of ancient Greece, queer love was ...

The appointment of a new medicine man is a dicey moment in the life of a tribe. Get it wrong, pick the wrong guy, and your deepest spiritual diseases will go not only untreated but undetected. Get it ...

The last time Merlin Holland came to this particular address on Tite Street in London, a previous home of his late grandfather Oscar Wilde, was in 1954, at the age of nine, for the unveiling of a blue ...

The exhibition features the last letter that Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, sent to Elizabeth I in 1588. The National Archives Declarations of love and loyalty spanning 500 years of history are now ...

In early 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, left a card at Wilde's club bearing the phrase "posing sodomite." Wilde sued the Marquess for ...

A collection of more than 150 poems, letters, manuscripts and signed books once belonging to Oscar Wilde—the Irish writer celebrated for his sharp wit—is heading to the auction block this February, ...

MS NOW anchor Chris Hayes stopped by “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Wednesday, where he discussed the “incredibly fraught jurisdictional territory” Minnesota state officials have found ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 15, 1803, in the interregnum between two wars: one the revolution that birthed America and the second a bitter sequel that confirmed its independence. The United ...