13 August 1983: John Gray began to be displeased with being identified with the fictional Dorian when scandal began to surround Oscar Wilde
The strange case of a buddy of Oscar Wilde who was out of the closet and into the confessional before you could say “Dorian Gray” is uncovered – well, partly uncovered – in a new biography of a minor 1890s poet who might have become a major reprobate if he had not instead become a Roman Catholic priest.
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