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Upon publication in 1890 in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, The Picture of Dorian Gray had a passage cut that was deemed too indecent and ‘homoerotic’. Even after the revised and self-censored edition was published in 1891, Wilde’s novel continued to face bans on distribution in the USA under the federal Comstock Act of 1873. Wilde fiercely rejected the Victorian era's moral policing.
Upon publication in 1890 in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, The Picture of Dorian Gray had a passage cut that was deemed too indecent and ‘homoerotic’. Even after the revised and self-censored edition was published in 1891, Wilde’s novel continued to face bans on distribution in the USA under the federal Comstock Act of 1873. Wilde fiercely rejected the Victorian era's moral policing.