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Oscar Wilde

First Known Gay Summer Visitor to Sayville!

Oscar Wilde Picture Gay author Oscar Wilde "came out" to Sayville in 1882!

He was a house guest of Robert Roosevelt at his mansion in Sayville. We can only speculate what went on at night in that house, located in the swamp north of Middle Road in Sayville. Robert Roosevelt was the uncle of  another guest at the house, the future President Theodore Roosevelt.

Oscar Wilde pictured in purple with gold trim.

Teddy TR Roosevelt Picture

 TR spent nights at that house too.

 "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."


"The love that dare 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.  It dictates and pervades great works of art like those of Shakespeare and Michelangelo, and those two letters of mine, such as they are.  It is in this century misunderstood, so much misunderstood that it may be described as the "Love that dare not speak its name," and on account of it I am placed where I am now.  It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection.  There is nothing unnatural about it.  It is intellectual, and it repeatedly exists between an elder and a younger man, when the elder man has intellect, and the younger man has all the joy, hope and glamour of life before him.  That it should be so the world does not understand.  The world mocks it and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it.
 
Roosevelt House where Theodore stayed. The house where Oscar Wilde lived while in Sayville.



Info about Oscar Wilde in Sayville is from the "History of the Sayville Community" by Charles P. Dickerson,



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