‘Sherlock’ Fans Were Robbed of the Gay Endg They Derved

Contents:

• 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
• BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY
• IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?
• SHERLOCK HOLM 3 WILL REPORTEDLY CONFIRM HOLM AND WATSON ARE GAY
• IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?

'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.

BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY

But everyone wants to believe he's gay. He's not gay.

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. 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”.

IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?

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. If Sherlock is gay, and who knows if he is, then I don’t thk he fanci John.

In S01E03, when he meets Sherlock, Sherlock duc him as gay. So, is Jim really gay? It is the age old qutn…Is he gay or European?

And Ju Law will reportedly nfirm that Holm and Watson are gay. But everyone wants to believe he’s gay. He’s not gay.

SHERLOCK HOLM 3 WILL REPORTEDLY CONFIRM HOLM AND WATSON ARE GAY

Is Sherlock gay? As for what you n expect om the plot, would appear that the producers plan to outright nfirm that Holm and Watson are gay the threequel. Of urse, the pair’s unique bromance has always been one of the highlights of every adaptatn of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s works, but seems that the stud wish to take this one step further and nfirm that they are, fact, homosexual.

A sequel to Christmas h Sherlock Holm may be blocked by thor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tate after Robert Downey Jr., the star of the film, suggted the inic tective might be gay (watch Downey Jr talk about Holm' gay subtext on Letterman). "I am not hostile to homosexuals, " she said, "but I am to anyone who is not te to the spir of the books. " Are we really likely to see a gay Sherlock Holm?

Downey's ment was a "lgh at the expense of prient attus to gay sex, " and not a "ser" suggtn. To do so would be agast the vtigative spir of the books—"not jt homophobic, but Holmophobic. "But Holm shouldn't be gay: There's nothg wrong wh Downey's playg the "gusg game, " says Elisabeth Rappe at Cematil.

IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?

"Holm isn't gay—but he is sexualized: The first film don't really suggt Holm is gay, says Vlet Blue the San Francis Chronicle. " But there's no actual "gay ntent"—and there isn't likely to be any the sequel, eher. Watson was revealed to be gay and love wh Sherlock as the season progrsed.

While that velopment was praised by some, others cricized for the later revelatn that Watson had a hand the ath of Holm’ wife Alice, leadg to allegatns that the show was employg the harmful “evil gay” trope. 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.

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.