Courthouse Hotel, Soho

Now a hotel, this courthouse in Soho is where Wilde's case for gross indecency against him took place after his affair with a British aristocrat, Lord Alfred Douglas,  came to light. Douglas' father, the Marquess of Queensbury, was so upset his son was romantically involved with a man that he exposed Wilde's sexual orientation which was punishable by law in England up until the 1960s. Despite his homosexual acts being illegal, Wilde took the Marquess to trial for defamation which did not go Wilde's way by any means, landing him in prison.