And the answer to yesterday’s LGBT History Month parenting trivia question is:
Oscar Wilde, whose younger son Vyvyan Holland wrote the excerpted passage about his father in Son of Oscar Wilde
The sad part of the story is that after Wilde’s trial for “gross indecency” (having same-sex relations), when Vyvyan was about eight and his older brother Cyril was 10, the boys’ mother Constance took them to Switzerland and they never saw him again.
I love the passage from Holland because of the loving portrait it paints of an early LGBT parent. Our history runs much deeper than many realize.
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