signed the warrant to arrest Oscar  Wilde. It was Wildes trial and subsequent imprisonment that sent a  chill over Englands gay and creative community for the next sixty  years. When playwright/screenwriter Terrence Rattigan met Asquith  for the first time, he recalled being profoundly aware of who the  directors father was. Rattigan had the misfortune to come of age as  a gay man in the 1930s, when homosexual relationships between  consenting males in England was still a prosecutable offense with  jail sentences of up to two years at hard labor. Even with a great  deal of self