Sherlock's World • what's the gay pilot?? i'm nfed

Contents:

• 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
• IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?
• BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY
• THE GAY PILOT
• OUR LORD AND SAVUR NATHAN FOAD ? — REMEMBER THE GAY PILOT WHEN SHERLOCK WAS STOOD...
• JOHNS MD PALACE — WHAT'S THE GAY PILOT?? I'M NFED

'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!

A few months ago, the mors started aga: Did Benedict Cumberbatch jt out Sherlock as gay?! But some thought that Cumberbatch was htg that Sherlock is gay, a misnceptn that's the foc of plenty of onle fanfictn, and that the show ocsnally self plays wh. But everyone wants to believe he's gay.

He's not gay.

IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?

A mashup of the Big Gay Pilot episo and A Study Pk as aired, wh lots of fun tails filled . In S01E03, when he meets Sherlock, Sherlock duc him as gay.

So, is Jim really gay? The pilot episo of Sherlock (dubbed ‘The Gay Pilot’ by many fans) is the ial rult at the first go at BBC Sherlock that was proposed.

It was ially named ‘A Touch of Pk’ and ’s lled the gay pilot bee Sherlock and John are like full-blown gay for one another and many people thk they had to tone down a notch for the real al so that wasn’t so obv. It’s super gay wh skny jeans, bad special effects, bad mic, 221B had a different set that looked like a rockstar-themed child bedroom om a Pottery Barn talog, the bbie and Sherlock have their ‘good bottle v. It’s really gay.

BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY

Fuckg gay batman sh.

It’s jt unr an hour long and ’s gay as Sherlock go ahead. Sherlock should’ve end wh the gay pilot:)))))). Homoerotic subtext film and media has existed for generatns, harkg back to a time when homosexualy or bisexualy had to be hted at orr to get past the censors.

Beg gay was illegal (and many plac still is) so the reprentatn of gay romance had to d and subtle – the hts, the heated looks.

THE GAY PILOT

Now we fally have the opportuny to watch explicly gay-centred TV shows and films. As a property, Sherlock wh a lot of baggage regardg homoerotic subtext. Amics have been batg for s over whether Holm was gay, and whether he and Watson were dog more than jt solvg s together.

OUR LORD AND SAVUR NATHAN FOAD ? — REMEMBER THE GAY PILOT WHEN SHERLOCK WAS STOOD...

The only gay portrayal of Sherlock Holm to date is Billy Wilr’s 1970s film The Private Life of Sherlock Holm, and the wrer/director himself wish the film had been far more explic and open about Holm’ orientatn:.

JOHNS MD PALACE — WHAT'S THE GAY PILOT?? I'M NFED

I wanted to have Holm homosexual and not admtg to anyone, cludg maybe even himself.

The assumptns are met wh apathy om Sherlock and abject nial and “I’m not gay! ” om John (no-one seems to mentn to him he don’t have to be gay to be a same sex relatnship – after all, bi people do exist). There’s nothg ludicro about the ia of their favoure characters beg gay or bisexual, but ’s beg offered as a joke where the unrlyg ncept is that such a relatnship would be too awkward/impossible/funny for words.

BBC’s Sherlock is rife wh homoerotic subtext. The unaired pilot for BBC Sherlock is known lloquially among Sherlock fans, as the ‘Gay Pilot’ One particularly memorable scene is when Sherlock has climbed a roof lookg for evince, wh the moon the background (of urse) while John looks on awe. But was the Sherlock team also asked to tone down the gay symbolism?

It wouldn’t be the first time a scene has been cut for beg ‘too gay’. The wrers and actors of the show have said unequivolly and repeatedly – while, prumably, approvg the edorial directn and choice of trailers – that Sherlock is not gay and Sherlock and John are not a romantic relatnship. But everyone wants to believe he’s gay.

He’s not gay. In directg The Private Life of Sherlock Holm, Billy Wilr explicly set out to pict Sherlock Holm as gay and reprsg his orientatn. In the BBC, the wrers and directors have done everythg possible, om dialogue to story to visuals, to pict Sherlock and Holm as reprsed and gay – then, when ’s brought up, Moffat throws his hands the air and says ’s “very clear” they’re not gay, ’s “not the show”, and rc the dience to people who jt want to “fantasize about ”.

One of the wrers, Mark Gatiss, is both gay a proud advote for LGBTQA+ rights and visibily. He is quoted as sayg he wanted gay characters to be a non-issue: “You want to say this is absolutely fe and normal.

Beg gay portrayed as normal, not as part of a pathology.