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A NEW DORIAN GRAY WEB SERI WANTS TO MAKE GAY MEDIA A LTLE LS WHE
Like Dorian, will never change; like him, ’s elegant and ld, a sleek slab of held homosexual love and attractn to an almost mythic ial, symbolic of a Hellenistic utopia, a darg prciple at a time when one uld be imprisoned for actg upon same-sex attractn. While The Picture of Dorian Gray was Wil’s only foray to supernatural terror, homosexualy is the spectral subtext of much English and Amerin horror lerature of the neteenth and early twentieth centuri, which spirs and mons were maniftatns of reprsed queer sir—most famoly, there’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenste, wh s mad doctor’s physil and spirual admiratn of his powerful Promeths; Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr. It is probably not the flowery language or wty social mentary, but the homoeroticism prent throughout the novel, pecially the portrayal of the iendship between male characters.
The implic homoeroticism of the novel was greatly gmented the latt rernatn of the story, the movie Dorian Gray (2009). While the novel homoerotic sire enters the story through Basil’s admiratn of Dorian’s bety, cric Ed Cohen se a dispary between this sire and s experience, sce homoerotic acts are never portrayed. In this way, the latt rnatn of the story transforms the story as pass om the verbal to a visual medium, pictg the pivotal homoerotic moments between Dorian Gray and Basil Hallward explic tail, whout mentg on them or offerg sight to the characters’ mds.
My ma rearch tert is the exprsn on sexualy Victorian lerature as well as the perceptn of homosexualy European culture and society.