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	GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gross Indecency explores the details of the trials that ended WildeÕs career as a dramatist and sent him to prison for two years with hard labor.
		At this trial, 24 counts of gross indecency as well as one charge of conspiracy were brought against Alfred Taylor, the man who had introduced Wilde and Douglas to the young valets and grooms who kept their company.
		I'm electrified by the dialectic in Gross Indecency between the carnal and the intellectual/historical/political.
	www.courttheatre.org /home/plays/9899/gross/PNgross.shtml (11286 words)

	The CPS : Buggery and Gross Indecency (SOA 1956)
		The CPS : Buggery and Gross Indecency (SOA 1956)
		It is important to note that the consent of the Director is required for proceedings against any male for offences of buggery or gross indecency with another male; or for aiding, abetting, counselling, procuring or commanding those offences where either male was under the age of consent.
		Where allegations of gross indecency are made against two or more men, it is often preferable to charge each in a separate count.
	www.cps.gov.uk /legal/section7/chapter_c.html (1631 words)

	Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
		Gross Indecency manages to turn relatively familiar material--the trials and imprisonment of Wilde on charges of sodomy and pederasty--into a damning indictment of the way that government tries to regulate our private lives....
		In Gross Indecency playwright and director Moises Kaufman has dramatized [Wilde's] fall with the sort of rapier stylization that Wilde himself would have admired....It's dazzling coup de theatre, at once compelling history and chilling human drama.
		Gross Indecency touches on a multitude of themes, from the subversive nature of art and changing strictures on homosexuality to the legacy of Victorian Puritanism and "morality" as a sort of shared public hypocricy.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/wilde/grossindecency.html (622 words)

	Isabella Case Puts Attention On 'Gross Indecency' Law
		But he's also charged with gross indecency between males, a five-year felony rooted in 19th century British law that requires no victim and erases the issue of consent as a defense.
		Under the gross indecency statute -- of which there is a similar law pertaining to males and females -- a prosecutor must prove only that the sexual act occurred.
		Critics of the gross indecency statute argue not only that it's vague, but that it is selectively applied to cases that are more appropriately covered under more modern CSC laws.
	www.sodomylaws.org /usa/michigan/minews03.htm (1187 words)

	Gross Indecency
		who were involved in the case, Gross Indecency turns the audience into the jury, and it transforms the actors from one character to the next with the shift of an accent or the donning of a hat.
		Gross Indecency follows Oscar Wilde through his three trials for sodomy, as well as from the pinnacle of his success to his lowest depths of his disgrace.
		"Gross Indecency" tracks his trials, and the destruction of gossamer genius that resonates in today's intolerance of behavior and values that differ from the norm.
	www.shakespearefest.org /gross_indecency.htm (3838 words)

	Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. - Minetta Lane Theater, New York, New York - theater reviews ...
		Indeed, aphorisms and epigrams may be all the audience expects from Gross Indecency, a new play written and directed by Moises Kaufman.
		Kaufman's play is a compendium of accounts of Wilde's trials, which resulted in his conviction for "gross indecency," i.e., sex with other men.
		Perhaps Kaufman's greatest triumph in Gross Indecency is his refusal to project today's politics onto past history.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n735/ai_20164888 (320 words)

	QL-ED: Gross Indecency
		Isabella case puts attention on 'gross indecency' law Richard Harrold Sun Staff Writer A mentally handicapped man's legal ability to consent to sexual relations is at the root of a criminal charge being challenged in Isabella County Circuit Court.
		Under the gross indecency statute * of which there is a similar law pertaining to males and females * a prosecutor must prove only that the sexual act occurred.
		Barberi, according to court records, contends "police and prosecutors are using their discretion to unconstitutionally criminalize sexual behavior they find offensive." The state Supreme Court ruled in 1994 that the gross indecency charge could only be used in limited circumstances, one of those involving a sex act with children.
	legalminds.lp.findlaw.com /list/queerlaw-edit/msg02909.html (1221 words)

	Gross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gross (unit), a counting unit equal to 144.
		in anatomical pathology, gross examination means identification of disease with the naked eye.
		In mysticism, the gross realm is the physical, bodily realm, as opposed to the subtle realm of mind, the causal realm of form, and the nondual.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gross (209 words)

	RTE News - Carlow teacher guilty of gross indecency
		A 59-year-old secondary school assistant principal has been found guilty of gross indecency against a boy to whom he gave metalwork grinds in his house.
		Gerard Byrne from Killeshin Road, Carlow, carried out sexual acts of gross indecency on a 16-year-old boy who was studying for his Intermediate Certificate in 1991.
		A jury of eight women and four men returned a unanimous guilty verdict on all six counts of gross indecency.
	www.rte.ie /news/2004/0722/carlow.html (313 words)

	Bill Would Repeal Gross Indecency Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sean Kosofsky, policy director of gay rights advocacy group the Triangle Foundation in Detroit, said dozens of men are arrested a year for gross indecency.
		Gross indecency statutes punish adult, consensual, noncommercial sex as a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
		The bills to repeal gross indecency laws are House Bills 4614-15; the bills to repeal cursing and cohabitation laws are House bills 4616-17.
	www.sodomylaws.org /usa/michigan/minews022.htm (203 words)

	Amazon.com: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde: Books: Moises Kaufman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gross Indecency gives the history of Wilde's life and crimes, and allows us to see how the social forces of homophobia and hatred in law, religion, and custom set the stage to send Wilde to prison.
		Kaufman career in theater in Venezuela, have seen Gross Indecency both in New York and London several times, and have read the play, which is masterfully built.
		Gross Indecency did a fine job of revealing the puritanical injustices commited by the court of Victorian England.
	www.amazon.com /Gross-Indecency-Trials-Oscar-Wilde/dp/0375702326 (1430 words)

	Boise Weekly - Not Your Everyday Newspaper: Arts: Stage: Gross Indecency
		In Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, playwright Moises Kaufman (The Laramie Project) uses these persecutory trials as the grounding element, then layers transcripts, personal correspondence, interviews, newspaper headlines and other material to convey the tragic downfall of one of the great artistic geniuses of all time.
		What makes Gross Indecency moving and worthwhile are the stunning, food-for-thought lines spoken by Wilde: "The secret of life is art.
		Overall, Gross Indecency is a remarkable feat for a small theater to pull off.
	www.boiseweekly.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=163258 (847 words)

	Movie Review: Next Stop Wonderland -- The people make up for the plot
		The Huntington Theatre staging of Moises Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde is well in tune with the Oscar Wilde-mania that brought us Liam Neeson's interpretation of the famous writer in The Judas Kiss and the recent Hollywood release Wilde.
		In Gross Indecency, Moises Kaufman adds to the Wilde renaissance by focusing on the trials that caused the ultimate demise of an ailing Oscar Wilde.
		He lost the libel suit, and in ensuing trials he was charged with "gross indecency," found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V118/N44/grossi.44a.html (820 words)

	Eye Weekly - Gross Indecency - theatre review - 06.18.98
		After raking in hosannas all the way from GLAAD (which gave Gross Indecency a 1997 Media Award) to the highbrow/hardhat mid-America tag-team of the New York Times and USA Today, Moisés Kaufman reckons his play's...
		While Gross Indecency involves no attempt to make Wilde doff his gay apparel, it does resist the temptation to put the thorny martyr's tiara on his head -- even hinting that those who do are unwittingly lining up with his tormentors.
		What makes Gross Indecency the definitive Wilde show is its stubborn refusal to recast its resident poet in any terms other than his own.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_06.18.98/art/gross18.html (732 words)

	Random House for High School Teachers \| Catalog \| Gross Indecency by Moises Kaufman
		In doing so, England's reigning man of letters set in motion a series of events that would culminate in his ruin and imprisonment.
		For within a year the bewildered Wilde himself was on trial for acts of "gross indency" and—implicitly—for a vision of art that outraged Victorian propriety.
		Expertly interweaving courtroom testimony with excerpts from Wilde's writings and the words of his contemporaries, Gross Indency unveils its subject in all his genius and human frailty, his age in all its complacency and repression.
	randomhouse.com /highschool/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375702327 (147 words)

	Ink 19 :: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
		The only decent thing left to do is prosecute, prosecute, and prosecute until they get a conviction, and then auction his stuff to the lowest bidder.
		With nearly every line followed by citation, chapter and verse, Helsinger and company overcome the preachy nature of Indecency to deliver a cautionary tale of hubris in public life.
		Wilde steps into the witness box, astride the world and confidence oozing from every pore, but a single small slip plummets him to the depths with a speed any MTV pop star would appreciate.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/00_02/live_ink/033_gross_indecency_the.shtml (378 words)

	History's Lessons: 'Gross Indecency' lashes out with virile energy and refined passion associated with the work of ...
		History's Lessons: 'Gross Indecency' lashes out with virile energy and refined passion associated with the work of revolutionaries: Metro Weekly magazine: Theater Reviews at gay Washington DC newspaper for theatre, on stage productions, performances.
		It's not that there was anything wrong with Kaufman's Gross Indecency, it's just that in the hands of Skidmore and his cast -- a brilliant amalgamation of North Carolina School of the Arts students and local theatre professionals -- it has evolved into quite another beast.
		Much of that exciting stagecraft can be attributed to Cooper D'Ambrose's Oscar Wilde, who, at roughly 20 years younger than his role solicits, is able to define the Irish playwright with all of the remarkable ambivalence and strained sorrow affixed to Wilde in later biographies.
	www.metroweekly.com /arts_entertainment/stage.php?ak=1739 (537 words)

	gross093098 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With ''Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde,'' which opens the Thompson Shelterhouse Theatre season Thursday, the subject turns from Wilde's theatrical success to the scandal that quickly destroyed him.
		Edward Stern, who is directing Moises Kaufman's ''Gross Indecency,'' points out that it was only 100 days after the London opening of ''Earnest'' in 1895 that the life of the Irish playwright-novelist-poet-essayist went into a spiral.
		Contents: A play on the libel trial Oscar Wilde brought unsuccessfully against the Marquess of Queensberry and two subsequent trials in which Wilde was charged with gross indecency as a result of his homosexual conduct.
	www.cincypost.com /living/1998/gross093098.html (620 words)

	Now Showing: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
		Gross Indecency uses trial transcripts, personal correspondence, interviews and other source materials to tell the story of the downfall of the great man of letters whose artistic genius has long been overshadowed by the scandal surrounding his imprisonment.
		The defense denounced Wilde’s art and literature as immoral, leading the prosecuting attorney to declare, “It would appear that what is on trial is not Lord Queensberry but Mr.
		Wilde’s art!” In the end Queensberry was acquitted, and evidence that had been gathered against Wilde compelled the Crown to prosecute him for “gross indecency with male persons.” With Wilde’s arrest, his hit plays running in London’s West End were forced to close, and Wilde was reduced to penury.
	www.theatregroup.org /playbill/gross_indecency (297 words)

	Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
		GROSS INDECENCY: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde begins performances on April 7 and runs through May 1, 1999.
		Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman.
		Gross Indecency chronicles the arrest, judgement and sentencing of Wilde.
	www.houstontheatre.com /gross.html (1343 words)

	Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, a CurtainUp review
		Gross Indecency has risen from its brief interment and been handsomely re-mounted for a commercial run at the Minetta Lane.
		Throughout this amusingly uninhibited public display of Wilde's "dirty underwear" there is the man accused of acts of "gross indecency." With his impeccable attire, ramrod straight posture and pale, pain-frosted face, he is a living portrait of a proud man whose intellectual reservoirs contain nothing that can restore his shredded dignity.
		Her much publicized success as a female pilot, like Wilde's literary success, was toppled by an unwise love affair and a lie instead a straightforward response.
	www.curtainup.com /grossind.html (1100 words)

	Gross Indecency by Moises Kaufman and LuAnn Walther and Tony Kushner : Booksamillion.com (0375702326, Paperback)
		For within a year the bewildered Wilde himself was on trial for acts of "gross indecency" and - implicity - for a vision of art that outraged Victorian propriety.
		In this work of the theater - a smash hit Off Broadway - Moises Kaufman turns the trials of Oscar Wilde into a riveting human and intellectual drama.
		Expertly interweaving courtroom testimony with excerpts from Wilde's writings and the words of his contemporaries, Gross Indecency unveils its subject in all his genius and human frailty, his age in all its complacency and repression.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0375702326 (180 words)

	Gross Misconduct (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When we see an American actor in Australian film, we know we are not in for a masterpiece.
		But even viewed with low expectations, "Gross Misconduct" is a huge flop.
		Based on a play with a rather unimaginative title and then adapted into a reasonably enjoyable book, it fails to engage, convince or even remotely interest its audience on a most fundamental level.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0107046 (521 words)

	THEATER -- A New Wilde for `Gross Indecency' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		``Gross Indecency'' has a new Oscar Wilde, and he's a keeper.
		``Gross Indecency'' is one of many distinguished marks San Francisco casting director Barbie Stein left behind when she died last week at 40.
		The fine ``Gross Indecency'' and ``Picasso at the Lapin Agile'' ensembles both confirmed her belief in Bay Area actors.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1998/02/12/DD87104.DTL (778 words)

	TheatreWorks New Milford - Gross Indecency: The Three Trails of Oscar Wilde 2002
		Gross Indecency chronicles the arrest, judgment and sentencing of Oscar Wilde, the most celebrated and notorious playwright and wit of Victorian England.
		Using various texts, including transcripts from the trial, newspaper accounts, personal letters, and biographies, playwright Moisés Kaufman has created a provocative exploration of the issues of censorship, sexuality, and the role of the artist in society.
		An absolutely gripping courtroom drama, GROSS INDECENCY is full of Wilde's trademark wordplay and witticism.
	www.theatreworks.us /shows/gross.html (169 words)

	Playbill News: Gross Indecency Replaces Ambition at L.A. Taper in Feb.
		Playbill News: Gross Indecency Replaces Ambition at L.A. Taper in Feb.
		Gross Indecency Replaces Ambition at L.A. Taper in Feb.
		That's exactly what's happening at LA's Mark Taper Forum, where Moises Kaufman's play about Oscar Wilde on trial, Gross Indecency -- which has been a huge Off-Broadway hit at NY's Minetta Lane Theatre for the past six months -- will replace Anthony Clarvoe's Ambition Facing West in the Feb. 19 to Mar. 29 time slot.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/36029.html (293 words)

	Talkin' Broadway: Gross Indecency, The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
		Talkin' Broadway: Gross Indecency, The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
		We attempted to explain but she wasn't having any of it, and yelled at us saying "you better look at yer tickets!" She was so nasty that I'm going to call the theatre today and complain about her.
		I must begin by telling you that Gross Indecency, The Three Trials Of Oscar Wilde is the greatest play I've ever seen.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /world/dece_11.html (864 words)

	Playbill News: Gross Indecency Star Lands Role on ABC-TV's "Lost"
		Playbill News: Gross Indecency Star Lands Role on ABC-TV's "Lost"
		Michael Emerson won a 2001 Emmy Award for Best Guest Actor for his work as serial killer William Hinks on "The Practice." He was most recently seen onstage in the New York Theatre Workshop's production of Bach at Leipzig.
		His other stage credits include Gross Indecency and the Broadway revivals of Hedda Gabler and The Iceman Cometh.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/97904.html (326 words)

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