The Trials of Oscar Wilde (H. Montgomery Hyde)  

"Very shortly after this sally the climax to the cross-examination was reached, The witness was being questioned about a boy named Grainger, who was a servant in Lord Alfred Douglas’s rooms at Oxford. Did Wilde ever kiss him? “Oh, dear no I He was a peculiarly plain boy, He was, unfortunately, extremely ugly.” Quick as lightning Carson pressed home his advantage. Was that the reason Wilde had never kissed him? Why had he mentioned his ugliness? “Why, why, why, did you add that?" rapped out Carson in staccato tones. At last Wilde, who had hitherto shown remarkable self-restraint, lost his temper. But it was now too late. The damage was done; and the foolish slip, which caused it, could not be covered up." --The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (1948) by H. Montgomery Hyde

What is the "Love that dare not speak its name? — "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 fnic, 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 so that the world does not understand. The world mocks at it and sometimes puts one in the pillory for it. (Loud applause, mingled with some hisses.)"--The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (1948) by H. Montgomery Hyde