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/^t/Nowadays the issue of homosexuality is treated with much more tolerance than in the past. However we do remember the past times when homosexuality was a deviation banned by law, a kind of 'social disease'. The people who happened to fall victim to this shameful disease were persecuted. As an example we can point out to the case of Oscar Wilde who was tried for being a homosexual and, having been found guilty of sexual contacts with men, was sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour. It was the maximum sentence, most of which Wilde served at the Reading Gaol, where his health was badly damaged which in turn put an end to his literary career.