'Sherlock' -creator: For the last time, Holm is not gay!
Contents:
- DID ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE HOLM AND WATSON AS A GAY UPLE?
- IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?
- 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
- WERE SHERLOCK HOLM AND DR WATSON GAY? LET'S GO BACK TO THE ORIGAL TEXT
DID ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE HOLM AND WATSON AS A GAY UPLE?
Somethg that should also be taken to nsiratn was that the time Watson is supposedly documentg his adventur wh Sherlock Holm, homosexualy was nsired a ser crime, although that did not stop certa people om engagg homosexual love affairs. 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?
IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?
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.
'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
"But Holm shouldn't be gay: There's nothg wrong wh Downey's playg the "gusg game, " says Elisabeth Rappe at Cematil. "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.
Sherlock Holm, after all, is one of a long le of athetic, homosexual tectiv.
WERE SHERLOCK HOLM AND DR WATSON GAY? LET'S GO BACK TO THE ORIGAL TEXT
Historian Graham Robb tails the end homosexualy of Dup Strangers: Homosexual Love the 19th Century. That’s a revelatn of love straight out of the gayt movie moment, if I ever did read one. Doyle may not have realized he was htg all the homosexual signifiers, but he built on Poe’s foundatn of the homosexual tective: an tellectual, urban athete, wh a taste for exotic, eccentric ratn, dulgg e to take the edge off and a predilectn for male pany, who stalks the seedy unrbelly of London solvg crim.
Doyle’s own take on homosexualy was based on a medil standpot, not crimal.