Oscar Wilde Bookshop arose from his daily readings of Christian Science literature which stressed "the dignity of all things human and the importance of making things true by believing in them." Using the Christian Science example of community outreach and stressing the availability of literature that contained positive images of gays and lesbians, Rodwell modeled the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop after a Christian Science reading room. Oscar Wilde Bookshop The Oscar Wilde Bookshop was the first bookstore devoted to gay and lesbian authors. It was founded by Craig Rodwell on November 24, 1967 as the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop. Initially located at 291
Eduardo Wilde Eduardo Wilde Eduardo Wilde (June 15, 1844 – September 5, 1913) was an Argentine physician, politician, and writer, and among the most prominent intellectual figures of the modernizing Generation of '80 in Argentina. Eduardo Faustino Wilde was born in Tupiza, Bolivia, in 1844, to a mother from Tucumán (Argentina), and an English Argentine father from Buenos Aires. His father, Col. Diego Wilde a relative of the writer Oscar Wilde, temporarily fled from Argentina to Bolivia during the rule of Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas, and returned to Argentina after the latter’s fall in 1852. He was raised in Concepción del