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In “The New Life,” a 19th-century gay man fights for acceptance as Oscar Wilde is tried for sodomy
The New Life conjures, with some dramatic liberties, the inspiration and writing of a groundbreaking defense of homosexuality called “Sexual Inversion.”
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Karl Heinrich Ulrichs was the first gay activist
He came out of the closet before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, created the first scientific theory of homosexuality, and published the first gay magazine.