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
William Melmoth Walters the Rule Making Committee under the Land Transfer Acts. Walters was a Conservative in politics, and Chairman of Ewell, Cuddington and Malden Conservative Association. He enjoyed fishing in Norway and Scotland, and shooting in Surrey. He travelled on the Continent frequently in his earlier years, and visited the Cape, Tasmania and Australia, Madeira, Teneriffe. William Melmoth Walters William Melmoth Walters (1835-1925) was a former President of the Incorporated Law Society (1891-1892) and member of an old Somerset family. Walters was the eldest son of John Eldad Walters of Lincoln's Inn and Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of Alexander Radclyffe Sidebottom. He