Historical Context: "Be Gay Solve Crime"
Chance or Chess? a BBC Sherlock Podcast
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The Importance of Deduction in Victorian Homosexuality
Yeats said wild may have been crucified on the cross of public morality but he supplied the hammer and the nails before and after his arrest. Wild had made a brilliant career of poking fun at English society and did nothing to apologize for his success. In court he improvised brilliantly but he also lied stupidly and antagonized his prosecutors by hinting that they were too low to appreciate his art. Yeats pointed out the rage against wild was so complicated by the British's jealousy of the art and the artist. This hatred is not due to any action of the artist or eminent man. It is merely the expression of an individual hatred and envy become collective because circumstances have made it so well.
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