The love that dare not speak its name
The love that dare not speak its name is a phrase from the last line of the poem "" by Lord Alfred Douglas, written in September 1892 and published in the Oxford magazine The Chameleon in December 1894. It was mentioned at Oscar Wilde's gross indecency trial and is usually interpreted as a euphemism for homosexuality.
In Wilde's definition, "the love that dare not speak its name" was:
