One of the landmark cases in the history of gay rights is an 1895 trial involving charges of homosexuality against a famous Irish writer. While being cross-examined, the writer gave an eloquent explanation of a line in one of his poems that reads “I am the Love that dare not speak its name.”
The Love that dare not speak its name in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It dictates and pervades great works of art like those of Shakespeare and Michelangelo, and those two letters of mine, such as they are.
Unscramble the following letters to find out the name of the writer.
First Name : CSAOR
Last Name : DIWLE
Jelani Cobb is a staff writer for the New Yorker and a professor of journalism at Columbia University. In the passage below, he discusses a famous novel by Ralph Ellison that is taught on campuses throughout the country and commemorated with a statue on 150th Street and Riverside Drive in Harlem, near where Ellison lived for much of his life.
In ____________, published in 1952, Ralph Ellison, who was a student at Tuskegee Institute in the nineteen-thirties, described the tense dynamic between black colleges and their leadership. The first section of the novel is set at an unnamed Southern school, where the protagonist, a student, runs afoul of the president, Dr. Bledsoe, who is as dictatorial toward blacks as he is deferential to whites.
Identify the novel.