Is dorian gray gay

Much of the material that Stoddart cut makes the homoerotic nature of Basil Hallward’s feelings for Dorian Gray more vivid and explicit than either of the two subsequent published versions, or else it accentuates elements of homosexuality in Dorian Gray’s own make-up.

Both were famous for their fervent admiration of the male form in art, and were known to be gay (in fact, a ground-breaking, openly gay version of Michelangelo's biography and a translation of his sonnets was published shortly after Dorian Gray by gay activist John Addington Symonds).