Ballad of Reading Gaol

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Narrator: '"The Love that dare not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect... It is in this century misunderstood... and on account of it I am placed where I am now.'

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Featured in Queerama (2017)

Wonderful imagery if inaccurate attribution

This short film provides homoerotic and otherwise striking images for each word in Oscar Wilde's famous quote.

Well worth the 11 minutes to see it if you are of the same bent as Oscar and me.

I've never seen this particular short at any gay film festival and never in any collection of shorts so I hope that the Channel 4 site keeps this clip available on-line for a long time.

For those perfectionists amongst us though, the quote being used is from statements made during Oscar Wilde's first trial. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is wonderful reading as well, it's just not this.