4.05.1895 - Playwright Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest) loses his criminal libel case against his lover's father (and huge douche bag) the Marquess of Queensberry. The Marquess of Queensberry had accused the writer of homosexual practices one night by leaving a calling card inscribed, "For Oscar Wilde, posing Sodomite" at Wilde's bar, Albermale. Although the Marquess of Queensberry's calling card was certainly libelous in that it contained printed defamation of character, Wilde fucked up by not understanding that this particular defamation was true. Thus began a series of downfalls for Wilde that would eventually leave him looking like a smacked-out character from Fraggle Rock. Wilde, known for his flamboyance and eccentricities, couldn't seem to keep a lid on his affairs with other men, and back in 1895, that shit wasn't kosher. He was eventually found guilty of "gross indecency" with other men and was imprisoned on two years hard labor. Upon his release from prison, Wilde fled to the only place where queens could live a relatively peaceful life in 1895: Paris.
He died, without a penny to his name, at age 46.
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