In the years after Oscar Wilde's trial for gross indecency, many of Keynes's lovers committed suicide or married women.
In Malawi two men have gone on trial for gross indecency after holding a "traditional engagement ceremony".
Self-pity has been one of the ugliest motifs of this trial; a gross narcissism that leaves no room for the sufferings of others.
It could send a man to jail: Oscar Wilde's trial for "gross indecency" took place in 1895, when Maugham was twenty-one.
It is a matter of great regret that the former Chilean dictator - brought to power in a CIA-backed coup on September 11 1973 - avoided trial for gross abuses of human rights in his ravenous pursuit of power.
If even somewhat independent, the judges might be hard-pressed not to rule that, for example, Mr Musharraf seized power illegally (twice) and that Mr Zardari should stand trial for gross corruption the instant he loses presidential immunity.
Examples are 34 Tite Street in London, where Wilde lived with his wife until his trial for gross indecency in 1895; the Red House in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where Britten lived with his partner, the tenor Peter Pears; and Shibden Hall, near Halifax, the home of Lister in the early 19th century.
Despite this, the coupling of the colorimetric determination with the anionic columns showed no gross interferences during field trialling, and the columns showed potential for rapid screening of Sb species, as well as rapid preconcentration of Sb from water samples.
At Human Rights Watch in New York, which has campaigned for trials of gross violators of human rights wherever they are, Richard H. Dicker, director of the organization's international justice program, said that what has been emerging "are the pillars, the components of a system -- a mechanism of international justice -- that encompasses several different and necessary parts".
Among them were "And He Made a Her," in which Eve, of Adam and Eve, discovers that men objectify women, and "Now She Dances," a caustic reshaping of Oscar Wilde's trials for "gross indecency" in the 1890s as the story of Salome and John the Baptist, with John as a gay rights protester.
One of the great gross-out gastronomic trials for westerners is "stinky tofu", fermented bean curd aged in what food writer Fuchsia Dunlop calls "a liquid made of putrefying vegetation".
