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Marlene Dumas' portraits of the writer Oscar Wilde and his young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas illustrate that social attitudes do change.

He cast himself in a dazzling array of roles, both on and off the page. Can history restore the full measure of Wilde’s complexity?

Credit: AP By ITV News Multimedia Producer Suzanne Elliott February is LGBT+ History Month, 28 days of celebration, information, education and remembrance that aims to raise awareness on matters affecting the LGBT+ community, promoting equality and diversity across society. Even today, LGBT+ people face prejudice and discrimination, but for many lives have been improved and saved by those trailblazers and pioneers that have gone before. Here are 10 LGBT+ who have changed the lives or their community, country and the world. Barbara Gittings Many of us this side of the Atlantic may not know...

The grandson of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, whose life was said to have been "ruined" after a bitter courtroom clash with Unionist leader and lawyer Sir Edward Carson, has stumbled on a million-to-one discovery about his ancestor's deathbed conversion to Catholicism. And it was all thanks to the team behind the TV show Give My Head Peace and a Belfast priest who narrowly escaped death in a shooting in South Africa 14 years ago. The remarkable find came as the normally comedic team from Belfast were preparing a very different type of documentary with Merlin Holland about the links between hi...