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What does Bechdel write regarding the trial of Oscar Wilde in Chapter 6?

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Bechdel describes the circumstances of the trials faced by Wilde, explaining that it was right after The Importance of Being Earnest had opened that Wilde's trials began. He had returned from Algiers, where he and Alfred Douglas had been "disporting themselves with the local boys," and Douglas's father accused Wilde of sodomy. This led to a libel suit and eventually to Wilde's imprisonment.