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Contents:

• 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
• BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY
• DID BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH JT OUT SHERLOCK AS GAY?
• IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?
• STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT GAY
• ‘SHERLOCK’ SHOWNNERS BUNK GAY MORS NEW TERVIEW
• STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT GAY
• IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?

'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.

Guy Rchie’s recent film versn, starrg Robert Downey Jr, was noted for s homoerotic tensn and the actor suggted that Holm uld be a “butch homosexual”. The pair also have a meal London’s gay district Soho, where the rtrant owner says: “Sherlock, you n have anythg on the menu for you and your date.

BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY

If Sherlock is gay, and who knows if he is, then I don’t thk he fanci John. Although ’s never been nfirmed by the BBC if Cumberbatch’s Holm is supposed to be gay – the chemistry between him and Watson (played by Mart Freeman) has left ltle to the imagatn over the years.

Watson -- wh other characters nstantly assumg they were a uple -- and the homoerotic unrton their relatnship were so strong they spawned an entire Sherlock end 2017, fans hopg might fally make good on years of subtext were disappoted, and Freeman revealed a recent terview that he's aware the show let them down. "So by the time we filmed the last on, there were some fans who were so adamant that John and Sherlock were gay, " Freeman told Brish Rad 4. The trouble is as soon as you start gettg to a dialogue about that, sounds like you're somehow beg homophobic.

DID BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH JT OUT SHERLOCK AS GAY?

In S01E03, when he meets Sherlock, Sherlock duc him as gay. So, is Jim really gay? A lot of people thk Irene sayg "I'm gay" means she is lbian.

I thk she ed "gay" to mean "not straight"; not exactly lbian. Could Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holm actually be…gay? But everyone wants to believe he’s gay.

He’s not gay.

IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?

So he’s not gay or straight.

It is the age old qutn…Is he gay or European?

STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT GAY

And Ju Law will reportedly nfirm that Holm and Watson are gay. Is Sherlock gay?

The amount of this dg is so huge and so standardized relatn to storytellg that s tentnaly should be evint (there are of urse this day and age plenty of people that would ny anythg gay). This seemed pecially probable sce 1) the creators favore Holm adaptatn is The Private Life of Sherlock Holm, which Holm is wrten as gay, explicly enough and the director nfirmed , 2) one of the two wrers is gay 3) Holm and Watson beg a romantic uple is one diffed theory, fact Doyle's book seem to tentnally nta nuendo 4) one of the thors had already wrten two mor married lbian characters Doctor Who sayg that Holm and Watson's stori were spired to them.

‘SHERLOCK’ SHOWNNERS BUNK GAY MORS NEW TERVIEW

So you n unrstand why a great number of queer people supported and got heavily emotnally vted for up to 7 years this show wh the almost certaty that the leads would be one of the first gay upl to lead a very famo mastream show, that wasn't about gay people specifilly, that had another genre, which gay people weren't portrayed as villa, murred or hidn, or all sorts of negative LBGT trop. To anticipate this season there was a lot of promotnal material went this directn: an "I love you" and rabow lors the trailer, the actors said "love nquers all" " will make TV history" "It will be groundbreakg", the wrers lled "sane wish fulfillment", havg explicly gay Sherlock and John fanarts shown terviews, BBC Iplayer marketg on twter "Sherlock’s back & he’s love. This season, that was set to work as a last season acrdg to both the terviews and how actually end (of urse they rerved that they might do another if they want) end whout the leads gettg together, moreover the last episo sudnly the leads were barely speakg to each other, lookg at each other or sharg the ame together, which seemed a huge NO-HOMO pared to the hug they had shared the episo before, as if, once that the show was over, there was no reason to keep queer people believg anymore.

Sherlock and Irene are intified as gay the dialogue (Sherlock says twice that women aren't his area, yet jt "no" to not havg a boyiend, Irene repli "well I am" to "I'm not gay"), yet s4 Watson sudnly enurag Sherlock to have sex wh Irene. Them beg discsed sexual terms relatn to each other whout anybody potg out that they are gay almost pass the msage of nvertg gay people. Sherlock, a gay character, is forced to say to say "I love you" to a woman “like he means ”, which pass the msage of nvertg gay people as well.

This was very hurtful for queer people watchg the show, pecially bee the show seemed at first exceedgly gay iendly to the pot of beg groundbreakg queer reprentatn. Pl this rolutn nfirmed all the homophobic and heteronormative opns of the members of the dience. They sound pretty tired of the speculatn, followg a Comic-Con panel where Moffat spoke general terms about wrg gay characters on mastream TV—which some fans then misterpreted as a veiled ht about Sherlock.

STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT GAY

“It is furiatg ankly, to be talkg about a ser subject and to have Twter n around and say, ‘Oh that means Sherlock is gay, '” said Moffat. I’m a gay man. Dependg on who you ask, this is eher a harmls joke, a tratg and potentially homophobic example of queerbag, or proof that the Johnlock Conspiracy is real.

The end rult is a show that arguably clus gay subtext, wh an dience that lov to vise plex fan theori, and shownners whose terview quot n’t be tsted. 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.

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.

IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?

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:. 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).