John Francis Bloxam

John Francis Bloxam (1873-1928) was an English Uranian author and churchman. Bloxam was an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford when his story, "the Priest and the Acolyte", appeared in the sole issue of "the Chameleon: a Bazaar of Dangerous and Smiling Chances", a periodical which he also served as editor [Koven, Seth: "Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London", page 262. Princeton University Press, 2002.] . The story details the love affair of a priest and his lover, a boy. The affair, when discovered, triggers the priest's suicide. A poem, "A Summer Hour", also with homoerotic themes, appeared in "the Artist". The contents of "the Chameleon", which also included Lord Alfred Douglas' notorious poem "Two Loves", would be used against Oscar Wilde in his trial. Bloxam was a convert to Roman Catholicism, and became a priest [Hanson, Ellis: "Decadence and Catholicism", page 13. Harvard University Press, 1997.] .

External links

* [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/bloxam2.html "The Priest and the Acolyte", story, at People with a History] , referenced in List of books portraying paedophilia or sexual abuse of minors
* [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/bloxam1.html "A Summer Hour", poem, at People with a History]

References

Hanson, Ellis. "Decadence and Catholicism." Harvard University Press, 1997.

Koven, Seth. "Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London." Princeton University Press, 2002.

Roden, Frederick S. "Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture". Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

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