how man 2 man desires were stigmatized by associating them artificially with a queer like Oscar Wilde

Excerpt from: Queer Masculinity: The Representation of John Paul Pitoc’s Body in Trick

Sexual passivity, therefore, was conflated with the idea of femininity which signified lower social status.
However, as Sinfield argues, it was not until the Oscar Wilde trial that the modern day conflation of effeminacy with same sex passion solidified. (5 Alan Sinfield, The Wilde Century (London, Cassell, 1994).