Gay icon a prototypical portrait of a tortured closet case." Due to Saint Sebastian's status as a gay icon, Tennessee Williams chose to use the saint's name for the martyred character Sebastian in his play, "Suddenly, Last Summer". The name was also used by Oscar Wilde—as Sebastian Melmoth—when in exile after his release from prison. Wilde, an Irish writer and poet, was about as "out of the closet" as was possible for the late 19th century, and is himself considered to be a gay icon. Marie Antoinette was an early lesbian icon. Rumors about her relationships with women circulated in pornographic detail
Exile and the Kingdom Exile and the Kingdom Exile and the Kingdom () is a 1957 collection of six short stories by French writer Albert Camus. The underlying theme of these stories is human loneliness and feeling foreign and isolated in one's own society.Camus writes about outsiders living in Algeria who straddle the divide between the Muslim world and France. These works of fiction cover the whole variety of existentialism, or absurdism, as Camus himself insisted his philosophical ideas be called. The clearest manifestation of the ideals of Camus can be found in the story ""La Pierre qui pousse"." This story features D'Arrast, who