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TODAY: In 1897, Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol after doing two years of hard labor following being convicted of “homosexual offences.”

“I never imagined reading books and turning them into movies was a job.” It is, and if you can read a book every two days (and write a book report about it), it could be yours… | Lit Hub

“It turned her overnight into a symbol—­a heroic outlaw to some, an un-­American terrorist to many more.” Zayd Ayers Dohrn remembers growing up with a mom on the FBI’s most wanted list. | Lit Hub Memoir

“If a Black cop—a homosexual, no less—had to shoot and kill a Black man, well, Black men must deserve to be killed by cops.” Steven W. Thrasher on copaganda, pinkwashing, and the time he almost became an NYPD cop. | Lit Hub