Playwright, poet and novelist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" id="mwmA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a> is convicted of "committing acts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labouchere_Amendment" id="mwmQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Labouchere Amendment">gross indecency</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality" id="mwmg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Homosexuality">other male persons</a>" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.