![]() ![]() The project includes people who are held in prisons, secure mental health units, and immigration detention. Quit your job, join a band, start a gang.īent Bars is a letter-writing project for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, gender-diverse, intersex, and queer (LGBTQ+) prisoners in Britain and Northern Ireland. Liv is a dedicated abolitionist grass roots organiser and stands in solidarity with all groups organising against oppression. ![]() ![]() Liv previously worked at The Outside Project, an LGBTIQ+ homeless shelter and was part of the team that opened STAR Refuge, London’s first LGBTIQ domestic violence refuge, during covid. They have written 2 plays (Rise of the Refrain ‘21, And So The Choir Gathers ‘19) which both featured live punk music, untrained performers, and sold out their runs. They are currently in residence at Museum of Homelessness. ![]() They spent 2022 touring stadiums with Queer House Party, playing Secret Garden Party, Boomtown, Wilderness, Latitude and Sziget, and being banned from the Southbank Centre for decapitating the queen. Their band press.release, and their DJ/MC double act Dance Mums are residents. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde is a captivating and thought-provoking novel that delves into the darker realms of human nature, vanity, and the pursuit of pleasure. Their sellout night, How To Catch A Pig, is a celebration of creatives who also organise against the state with a focus of queer and trans performers and has a sibling night called How To Catch A Poet. They create live art, sometimes alone but more often with bands and collectives. You can find out more about Neil, and contact him, at Liv Wynter (they/them) is a trans and working class grassroots organiser and performer bouncing between SE15 and N15. His recent work includes the novel ADDRESS BOOK and the script for the recent West End staging of Virginia Woolf's ORLANDO, starring Emma Corrin. In 2016, he read Wilde's 50,000-word-long love-letter DE PROFUNDIS in the chapel at Reading Gaol in an uninterrupted six-hour performance which was also live streamed around the world. His first book, WHO WAS THAT MAN, was a groundbreaking study of Wilde's place both in queer history and 1980's queer culture since then he has directed many of Wilde's plays and texts, including his own adaptation of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY at The Abbey, Ireland's national theatre. Neil Bartlett (he/him) has been working as an out gay author and director since 1982. He died of acute meningitis in 1900.Join Neil Bartlett, Liv Wynter, and the Bent Bars Project as they discuss the legacy of Oscar Wilde, stigma and LGBTQIA+ imprisonment. He started writing again, producing The Ballad of Reading Gaol, based on his experiences in prison. Wilde was released from prison in 1897 and fled to Paris, where his many loyal friends visited him. He wrote his first play, The Duchess of Padua, in 1891 and wrote five more before his arrest. In 1890, his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was published serially, appearing in book form the following year. Meanwhile, he wrote reviews and edited Women’s World. He spent a year lecturing on poetry in the U.S., where his dapper wardrobe and excessive devotion to art drew ridicule from some quarters.Īfter returning to Britain, Wilde married and had two children, for whom he wrote delightful fairy tales, which were published in 1888. A popular society figure known for his wit and flamboyant style, he published his own book of poems in 1881. Born and educated in Ireland, he came to England to attend Oxford, where he graduated with honors in 1878. Wilde was a well-known author by this time, having produced several brilliant and popular plays, including The Importance of Being Ernest (1895). Homosexuality was classified as a crime in England at the time, and Wilde was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor. Who Was That Man is unique - the acting out of a love-hate relationship between Wilde and a gay Londoner of. However, he lost his case when evidence strongly supported the marquess’s observations. Many books have been written about Oscar Wilde. Set in Victorian-era London, the story revolves around the fascinating character of Dorian Gray, a young and handsome man who becomes the subject of a mysterious portrait. Octo Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde: Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth. Wilde had been engaged in an affair with the marquess’s son since 1891, but when the outraged marquess denounced him as a homosexual, Wilde sued the man for libel. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde is a captivating and thought-provoking novel that delves into the darker realms of human nature, vanity, and the pursuit of pleasure. Writer Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry. ![]()
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