The secrets will be known in just 2 hours. Professor Andrew Lear will guide you through a private tour of Metropolitan Museum and show you what you have been missing in the knowledge of LGBT movement and the art it induced. Visit oscarwildetours.com for more details.

2. About Us
Professor Andrew Lear combines a love of travel
with a passion for gay history, and he brings
both of those attributes to Oscar Wilde Tours.
Professor Lear brings all those qualities to Oscar
Wilde Tours, along with twenty years of
experience organizing and leading group tours.
With his vast cultural background, his detailed
knowledge of gay history and his long
experience of travel, Professor Lear strives to
provide our guests with a vacation that is
intellectually stimulating, culturally rewarding
and, above all, fun!

3. About Us
Why did we choose to name our company Oscar Wilde Tours?
Oscar Wilde is arguably one of the most recognizable figures in gay history.
After all, who doesn’t know at least something about Wilde, as raconteur,
dandy, author, or martyr?
Probably the greatest wit in the history of the English language, Wilde
perfected the art of conversation, producing countless brilliant epigrams that
still astonish and amuse today. Who, after all, but Oscar could have coined
the brilliantly paradoxical line, “I can resist everything except temptation”?
He also produced an astonishing range of writing: reinventing the fairy tale
and the short story; creating, in Dorian Gray, one of the modern mythic
figures on the level of Don Juan and Dracula; and penning the most insightful
(and screamingly funny!) society comedies in English history.

4. Gay Italy
The splendor of ancient Rome…the glory of the Renaissance…the
magnificence of the Baroque—Italy is the artistic treasure house of
Western civilization. But there is a side to Italy’s story that most people
aren’t aware of: from the Caesars to Michelangelo to Visconti and Pasolini,
Italy is also a storehouse of gay history—and many of its artistic treasures
celebrate same-sex love.
From Caesar to Michelangelo and beyond
Next Tour: October 9-19, 2016
Group Size: Maximum 18

5. Gay Italy

6. Gay London/Gay Paris
The gay side of Europe’s two great cities
Next tour: August 20-28, 2016
Group Size: Maximum 18
From Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde to King Henri III and Yves Saint Laurent,
London and Paris play an outsize role in gay history. Embark on a marvelous
discovery of gay identity in two of the world’s greatest cities, with Oscar Wilde
Tour’s Paris and London tour. Over eight days we will lead you on a fascinating
tour of gay history from the Renaissance to the modern age.
NOTE: Each half of this tour can be purchased separately as a shorter “city
break,” if so desired.

7. Gay London/Gay Paris

8. Gay Greece
Homeland of democracy, philosophy…and same-sex love
Next tour: May 20-29, 2016
Group Size: Maximum 18
The ancient Greeks are important to all of us because they are the inventors
of so much in our culture—democracy, philosophy, theater and art. Yet they
are even more important to gay people—because they practiced same-sex
love and associated it with positive values such as education, loyalty and
courage.
Discover your roots on this eye-opening tour of ancient Greece. Our trip
starts in Athens, the cultural center of the Greek world both then and now.

9. Gay Greece

10. The Oscar Wilde Celebration Tour
Luxury…that dares to speak its name!
Next Tour: October 2017
Group Size: Maximum 18
Dedicated to our patron spirit, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, this tour
is the most special and exclusive of all our company’s offerings. With the
elegance of a gay cruise and the cultural elevation of an Ivy League alumni
tour, it is the trip of a lifetime for connoisseurs of history, art and (let’s be
frank) luxury.
The tour follows Wilde’s life from his birthplace in Dublin to his tomb in
Paris’ Père Lachaise cemetery. Two days in the Irish capital let us explore his
early life, against the backdrop of Irish history.

11. The Oscar Wilde Celebration Tour

12. Included
Group transportation between cities, and to sights that are not reached on
foot; accommodations each night in accordance with the tour itinerary.
Breakfast each day on multi-day tours; dinners and lunches that are
specifically indicated in the itinerary.
Wine at welcome and farewell dinners and where mentioned in the
itinerary.
Entrance fees for sightseeing; special events where noted in the itinerary,
such as receptions, lectures, and theatrical performances.
All hotel service charges, government taxes, porterage, and gratuities for
included meals.

13. Not Included
International airfare (unless indicated in itinerary).
Transportation from your arrival point (e.g. airport, train station) to your
hotel.
Transportation from your hotel to your departure point (e.g. airport, train
station).
Travel insurance.
Alcoholic beverages other than wine at welcome and farewell dinners and
other times specifically mentioned in the itinerary.
Personal items, such as snacks, laundry, and telephone calls.
Gratuities for bus drivers and local guides.

14. Single Travelers
At Oscar Wilde Tours we recognize that the social aspect of travel is as
important as any other.
That is why we do our utmost to create a warm and welcoming experience
for our single travelers.
Indeed, this is one reason why we limit our group size to 18. We believe
that an intimate group is a welcoming and convivial one, and with Oscar
Wilde Tours you will never feel lost in a crowd.
Oscar Wilde single travelers have the choice of a private room at the
single-supplement tariff, but for those who would prefer to share a room
instead, we will strive to match you with a fellow traveler who shares your
interests and tastes—providing yet another way to make lasting friendships
during the tour.

15. New York Walking Tours
Everyone knows that gay liberation
began on a summer night in June 1969,
with the Stonewall riots in Greenwich
Village. But who knows that Mae West
was arrested in Manhattan for
producing a pro-gay-rights play in
1926? Or that Walt Whitman read his
homoerotic poems to friends at a bar on
Broadway?
New York is bursting with gay lore and
gay history—and Oscar Wilde Tours is
bringing it all out of the closet.

16. Museum Tours
Join us for an entirely new concept: an
exploration of homoerotic art in the
Metropolitan Museum. On this tour, we
discover some of the Met’s queer
treasures, from ancient Greek nudes and
erotic vase-painting (on which
Professor Lear is a world expert) to
homoerotic paintings from the
Renaissance—as well as a panoply of
modern works, some by LGBT artists,
some portraying LGBT people and some
expressing same-sex desire.

17. Contact Us
Address:
1202 Lexington Ave., #141
New York, NY 10028
Phone:
(646) 560-3205
Email:
info@oscarwildetours.com