bill (pliny the older) on Nostr: Hey, today’s Oscar Wilde’s 170th birthday. I was going to write a whole thing ...

Hey, today’s Oscar Wilde’s 170th birthday. I was going to write a whole thing about him — I read a massive bio of him when I was in eighth grade, which was very on brand for me. But if you don’t know why Wilde is such a figure for queers, I don’t know what to tell you.

Here’s a picture of his very ugly tomb in Paris, where they have to put up plastic protection because too many people have been leaving lipstick traces on the stone. There’s also an Oscar Wilde plaque on the Castro Rainbow Walk, because of course there is.