1. Homoerotic Male Relationships

2. Dorian Gray
"You have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame" - Is Lord Henry suggesting that Dorian has had homoerotic desires he does not know about?

3. Basil Hallward
Basil continues to believe that just because Dorian remains beautiful, he must therefore remain innocent and pure
As an artist, Basil believes that beauty is always a good thing
"I was dominated, soul, brain, and power, by you."
"I worshipped you. I grew jealous of every one to whom you spoke. I wanted to have you all to myself."

4. Lord Henry Wooton
Lord Henry creates Dorian in his own image, thus creating the perfect companion for him
Lord Henry thinks that men and women are never happily married - "the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties" & "Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed"
"Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful." - Here, Lord Henry may be talking about the way man has a "longing" for homoerotic experiences but can not as it was "unlawful" at the time

5. Treatment of women in the novel
Most women are described negatively
Lord Henry thinks that men and women are never happily married - "the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties" & "Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed"
"My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say" - Lord Henry
"If you had married this girl, you would have been wretched" - Lord Henry believes that if Dorian had married, the woman would have been to blame if Dorian's personality changed
Does this negative depiction of nearly all the women suggest that the only match for a man is another man?

6. Aestheticism
The underlying homoerotic tones fit into a larger theme in the novel; the appreciation of beauty
Aestheticism seems to have been connected with homoeroticism since it is believed to have “claimed authority over traditionally female realms”. In The Picture of Dorian Gray I think this can be applied into the high estimation of Dorian’s beauty. Beauty is something that has been seen as feminine. Not often are men referred to as beautiful. Therefore, when men are the objects being seen as beautiful by other men, we can see homoerotic undertones. (Luljeta Muriqi, Homoerotic tones in The Picture of Dorian Gray)
The relationship between men in the novel expresses Wilde's larger aesthetic values as an appreciation of youth and beauty was not only fundamental to culture but was also expressed as a physical relationship between men