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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The Early Days of LGBTQ Rock
Description: Once upon a time, it was illegal—criminal—to be another other than heterosexual...any hint that you may be something other than straight could get you into all sorts of trouble—and career suicide was the least of your worries...In 1895, the famous English playwright, Oscar Wilde, was put on trial for homosexual practices...he was found guilty and sentenced to two years in jail...he never recovered from the ordeal and died soon after his release...In 1959, Liberace, the famous pianist, sued the London Daily Mirror for libel for implying that he was gay...