Bosie Douglas 

When I was a teenager, I embraced homophobia. My father instilled it in me. And my brother who's thirteen years older than me especially instilled it in me. I hurt a lot of people during those years. A lot of queer kids that I was ironically friends with until I started trying to convert them... It's been ten years since I graduated high school. A few months ago at twenty eight years old I finally came to realize I'm genderqueer. The internalized homophobia kept me from even entertaining that possibility for a really long time. Now I feel like I've lost a lot of years. And I'm ashamed every day of the things I use to say and do when I was under my brother's influence. My brother who no longer talks to me and will not let me see his kids. Though admittedly that has much more to do with no longer embracing his religion than anything else. Being genderqueer just ensures that it will never get better between us. I say all of this to say, I think this story is really sad. I'm not defending Bosie. Not at all. But the way this story ends, it's what bigotry does to people. It twists them. It twisted me.

Oscar: 💖 french is the language of love, say it again 💖 Bosie: Omelette du Fromage

i can't believe Oscar Wilde's life was ruined by a proto Milo Yilologist

As an Irish person, thank you for censoring "engl*sh" Gah this episode made me sad, love this podcast

Something that particularly sucks for Oscar is that he was unpersoned by the writing community at the time. They’d perform his plays and just not give him credit for it.

On the topic of no homo: during Shakespeare's time you'd give the excuse that you were "just imitating the classics" (the classics being Greek and Roman works) and that way you could write something super homoerotic and it still be okay.

This episode was great, I knew about this guys existence but the true evil of his pink, pink hole was a mystery to me until now

As soon as you said Oscar Wilde I was like oh no. Because I know how poor Oscar's story ends.

I keep forgetting that they censor Engl*sh so every time it pops up I have to pause to scream laugh

re: the marquess of queensberry beating people up, he literally wrote the queensberry rules, basically modern boxing, so yeah, threatened with a battering from the guy who invented boxing lol

Mandy, when you were mentioned artists only being famous after they passed away, Van Gogh would be a much better example. Picasso was VERY famous when he was alive

I always learn way more than I expected listening to these. Ayn Rand really thought she could come for Boise Douglas's hell twink crown. Her Ruffles never stood a chance against Boise's.

I feel like Oscar Wilde had big bottom energy though. Bosie was the one laying pipe, let's be real.

I wonder if Boisie was the inspiration for Dorian Grey? Blonde, beautiful, demon twink. Art imitates life?

Yall are delightful by the way Cheers from Texas 😬

I totally forgot that y'all were censoring "English" and was DYING when I remembered😭😭😭

This boy is like of my ADHD told me (not) to do something and I did it singing loudly "as is my right".

Oh Future-Caelan, so petty, so wonderful.

There's a biopic of Wilde called 'Oscar'. He features about as much in it as Wilde. If someone already pointed this out, that's okay, because they meant to point it out the way I did anyway.

Despite living with an obsessed fan of Oscar Wilde for years. The way my ex talked about Bosie, I just assumed the guy died at age 30 of shock after finding a grey hair. Kinda funny he died a bitter old hag. With next to noone bothering to even show up at his funeral.

CORRECTION: Picasso was indeed famous while he was alive. And so was Oscar Wilde, he even did a tour in the United States.

currently manifesting french into my brain so I can translate for daddy

i've literally NEVER heard of this guy before so i'm excited to judge AND learn today :D SKFBFGDKF NOT BLEEPING THE WORD ENGL*SH-

I did know Oscar Wilde was gay, I think from the Biographics channel. But I did not know about his angry abusive side, which makes me kinda sad, because I've loved his writing. But this was an incredibly fun episode!

So, the Old Hoots are finally listening to this episode. HOOTS! Surely future Hoots and future Caelan could have put the parental advisory in BEFORE IT STARTED?!?! 🤣

I wonder if the buggery act is the origin of edging

Love the sass of future Caelan

Future Caelan is giving me life.

Omg.I had known of this guy, but now I know why I hate him. Poor Oscar. That's so bad... Great episode y'all!

Lol, when I heard penal servitude for at last 10 years. I thought that meant that you had to service just 1 penis for 10 years.

Oooooh this is only the second person I haven't heard of! (after the rich lady who's name I will insert later)

I've learned so much about history from this channel. A lot of it has been pretty shocking with how different it is from what I was taught in school but I guess that makes sense. I am American after all.

hmm

10:40. Little known fact, this is the origin of saying “no offense” (you know, cause the law was called “offenses against humanity”) 😏