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=== Honours === [[File:Memorial window.jpg|thumb|upright|Wilde is commemorated in this stained glass window at [[Westminster Abbey]], London.]] On 14 February 1995, Wilde was commemorated with a stained-glass window at [[Poets' Corner]] in [[Westminster Abbey]]. The memorial, above the monument to [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], was unveiled by his grandson [[Merlin Holland]], while Sir [[John Gielgud]] read from the final part of ''De Profundis'' and Dame [[Judi Dench]] read an extract from ''The Importance of Being Earnest''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Oscar Wilde |agency=Westminster Abbey |url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/oscar-wilde |access-date=29 August 2020 |archive-date=23 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923062103/https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/oscar-wilde |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, Wilde was one of the inaugural honorees in the [[Rainbow Honor Walk]], a [[List of halls and walks of fame|walk of fame]] in San Francisco's [[Castro District, San Francisco|Castro neighbourhood]] noting [[LGBTQ]] people who have "made significant contributions in their fields".<ref name=":022">{{Cite web |last=Shelter |first=Scott |date=14 March 2016 |title=The Rainbow Honor Walk: San Francisco's LGBT Walk of Fame |url=https://quirkytravelguy.com/lgbt-walk-fame-rainbow-honor-san-francisco/ |access-date=28 July 2019 |website=Quirky Travel Guy |archive-date=28 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728105852/https://quirkytravelguy.com/lgbt-walk-fame-rainbow-honor-san-francisco/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2 September 2014 |title=Castro's Rainbow Honor Walk Dedicated Today: SFist |url=https://sfist.com/2014/09/02/castros_rainbow_honor_walk_dedicate/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810075052/https://sfist.com/2014/09/02/castros_rainbow_honor_walk_dedicate/ |archive-date=10 August 2019 |access-date=13 August 2019 |website=SFist β San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{cite web |last=Carnivele |first=Gary |date=2 July 2016 |title=Second LGBT Honorees Selected for San Francisco's Rainbow Honor Walk |url=http://www.gaysonoma.com/2016/07/second-lgbt-honorees-selected-for-san-franciscos-rainbow-honor-walk/ |access-date=12 August 2019 |website=We The People |archive-date=12 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812121249/http://www.gaysonoma.com/2016/07/second-lgbt-honorees-selected-for-san-franciscos-rainbow-honor-walk/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The Oscar Wilde Temple, an installation by visual artists [[McDermott & McGough]], opened in 2017 in cooperation with Church of the Village in New York City,<ref>{{cite web |title=McDermott & McGough to Open Temple Dedicated to Oscar Wilde in New York's Church of the Village |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mcdermott-mcgough-to-open-temple-dedicated-to-oscar-wilde-in-new-yorks-church-of-the-village-8717/ |access-date=28 June 2020 |website=ArtNews |date=19 July 2017 |archive-date=6 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806004201/https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/mcdermott-mcgough-to-open-temple-dedicated-to-oscar-wilde-in-new-yorks-church-of-the-village-8717/ |url-status=live}}</ref> then moved to [[Studio Voltaire]] in London the next year.<ref name="Q Spirit2019">{{cite web |date=30 November 2019 |title=Oscar Wilde: Gay martyr with complex faith journey honored in art |url=http://qspirit.net/oscar-wilde-gay-martyr-faith/ |access-date=28 June 2020 |website=Q Spirit |archive-date=22 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622233605/http://qspirit.net/oscar-wilde-gay-martyr-faith/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[https://www.oscarwildetemple.org "The Oscar Wilde Temple"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815071636/https://www.oscarwildetemple.org/ |date=15 August 2021}}. oscarwildetemple.org.</ref>
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