John Francis Bloxam was an English Uranian author

Uranian poetry

The Uranians were a small and somewhat clandestine group of male pederastic poets who published works between 1858 and 1930...

 and churchman. Bloxam was an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford

Exeter College, Oxford

Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth oldest college of the University. The main entrance is on the east side of Turl Street...

 when his story, the Priest and the Acolyte, appeared in the sole issue of the Chameleon: a Bazaar of Dangerous and Smiling Chances, a periodical which he also served as editor. The story details the love affair of a priest and his lover, a boy. The affair, when discovered, triggers the priest's suicide. A poem, A Summer Hour, also with homoerotic themes, appeared in the Artist. The contents of the Chameleon, which also included Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas , nicknamed Bosie, was a British author, poet and translator, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde...

' notorious poem Two Loves, would be used against Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

in his trial. Bloxam was a convert to Roman Catholicism, and became a priest.

External links

• The Priest and the Acolyte, story, at People with a History
• A Summer Hour, poem, at People with a History