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• Still image from the film Different from the Others (Anders als die Andern)
  This 1919 silent film is thought to be one of the first sympathetic portrayals of homosexuality on screen. Telling the story of a gay musician and his boyfriend who are blackmailed by a acquaintance, it was made to protest German laws that criminalized homosexual relations between men.
• Closing Scene at the Old Bailey
  This newspaper illustration shows scenes from the trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895. It was published by The Illustrated Police News, a tabloid paper specializing in sensational stories about real-life crime that covered the trial heavily. The drawings show Wilde in court, and also the auctioning of his art collection to pay his legal fees.
• The Women-Hater's Lamentation
  This illustration is from an English broadside ballad, printed on a single sheet of paper. The picture accompanies a set of satirical verses. The first of the three panels shows two men attempting suicide after being arrested for sodomy, the middle depicts two men embracing, and the third shows a hanged man being cut down.