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"Avenge Oscar Wilde badge" [NMLH.2020.5.243]



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Catalogue Number
NMLH.2020.5.243

Object Name
badge

Title
AVENGE OSCAR WILDE

People
Oscar Wilde

Description
Orange circular badge with purple text reading "AVENGE OSCAR WILDE" in a stylised serif font.


The phrase “Avenge Oscar Wilde” was popular during the 1970s gay liberation movement. Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer who was imprisoned in 1895-1897 for ‘gross indecency’ for consensual homosexual acts.

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