Lord Alfred Douglas, a friend/lover? of Oscar Wilde, said of Wilde after his death "he was hand in glove with all the little boys on the Boulevard. He never attempted to conceal it."
At Wildes trial he spoke of 'the love that dares not speak its name' when asking to advance upon this he said; "The love that dares not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. There is nothing unnatural about it. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an older and a younger man, when the older man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him.'
Morrissey is a huge fan of Wildes work, and it is very possible that he was writing this song through the eyes of Wilde.
Lord Alfred Douglas, a friend/lover? of Oscar Wilde, said of Wilde after his death "he was hand in glove with all the little boys on the Boulevard. He never attempted to conceal it."
At Wildes trial he spoke of 'the love that dares not speak its name' when asking to advance upon this he said; "The love that dares not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. There is nothing unnatural about it. It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an older and a younger man, when the older man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him.'
Morrissey is a huge fan of Wildes work, and it is very possible that he was writing this song through the eyes of Wilde.