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DID ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE HOLM AND WATSON AS A GAY UPLE?
There's an amazg scene where, to get out of a suatn where a Rsian ballera wants Sherlock to father her child, he claims Watson and he are gay.
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. The heavy-hand openg gag about Holm and Watson lookg like a uple of gays seems ground a simple belief the sential ic effemacy of all limeys and Wilr's ial spiratn is clearly not so much Conan Doyle as My Fair Lady wh Holm and Watson as Profsor Higgs and Colonel Pickerg spluttergly endurg a myster, amniac woman their bachelor tablishment.
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. "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.