United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The Complete Dictionary of Sexology Oscar Wilde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30875 An Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts, imprisonment, and early death at age 46. Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History