It is the age old qutn…Is he gay or European? In the se of beloved fictnal character Sherlock Holm the answer right now might jt be – wa for …
Contents:
- DID ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE HOLM AND WATSON AS A GAY UPLE?
- 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
- MIKE HOLM AGE 55 HAS NO WIFE, ISN'T GAY EHER; HERE'S HOW
- IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?
- THE MEN WHO TURNED DAVE HOLM GAY
- KELLY HOLM OUT AS GAY: ‘I NEED TO DO THIS NOW, FOR ME’
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
DID ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE HOLM AND WATSON AS A GAY UPLE?
'Sherlock' -creator: For the last time, Holm is not gay! * holmes era 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. If you are terted Sherlock Holm and his (homo)sexualy, check out my other post The relatnship between Sherlock Holm and John Watson, I wrote about their relatnship The Private Life of Sherlock Holm and BBC’s Sherlock. For the 2 parts, I will e evince om books about homosexualy at that time, books about Sherlock Holm general, and onle sourc about the subtext found the origal Sherlock Holm stori.
Part 1 will be all about homosexualy the Victorian era, while part 2 will be an analysis of the homoerotic subtext the stori. This was the 19th century, was impossible for someone to be an openly gay man or wre an openly gay character.
When Osr Wil was arrted for beg gay, the obv homoerotic unrton his book where ed agast him and he was nvicted of sodomy. They were well-acquated and, as far as we know, Doyle’s views on homosexualy were que liberal for that era. So, is not that far of a stretch to thk that Doyle might have ed gay subtext his stori as well, even if was much more subtle than Wil’s.
'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
* holmes era gay *
1895 was an important year bee the Osr Wil trials ma many homosexual people flee London for a few months until thgs have lmed down. I bought this book om the bookshop Gay’s The Word London (you should fely vis ) and I’m so happy that I did, I love this book. There’s extensive rmatn about Victorian-era homosexualy and their d language, behavurs and tradns, so if you are terted learng more about this topic I totally remend this book.
In his book Robb also mentns bathho, a place that homosexual men at that time ed to vis que equently. In the bathhoe, the normal suatn was reversed: would have taken more genuy to avoid a homosexual enunter.
Holm has a “distctly homosexual liftyle”: he equently viss the Northumberland Avenue Turkish baths wh his iend, he reads thgs that had homosexual nnotatns at the time (such as Horace, Catull, Háfiz and Thore), he equents Che opium ns and nsorts wh “rough-lookg men”, and he n change his appearance (cludg beg drsed as a woman). Acrdg to Cook’s book, there were var ways that men uld be stereotyped as homosexual at that time: beg effemate, beg a bachelor, a theatregoer, a dandy, wearg scent, livg a “bohemian” liftyle (x). 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.
MIKE HOLM AGE 55 HAS NO WIFE, ISN'T GAY EHER; HERE'S HOW
The gay subculture of early Hollywood has gaed more attentn recently thanks to the Netflix seri Hollywood. Knowg as much as we do about some LGBT stars is a feat nsirg how much rewrg and verg up the Hollywood stud heads did to everyone they managed, whether gay or straight. In his own words, he felt “pafully isolated, strand between the sual homophobia of most ‘normal’ people and the flagrantly gay Hollywood subculture – where [he] was even ls fortable and ls accepted.
IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?
Five years before Hunter beme a star, he was arrted along wh several other men for “lewdns, ” a mon charge for men showg any signs of homosexualy public. Cor’s mansn, rated by gay former actor William Ha, beme the center of LGBT society Hollywood. Cor may have never been able to explicly talk about his sexualy, but he helped solidify the gay muny Hollywood.
Kelly is one of the very few women to explicly talk about her homosexualy durg her reer om the 1930s to the 1940s. Clift never publicly talked about , but close iend Elizabeth Taylor admted he was gay at the 2000 GLAAD Media Awards. The two acted three movi together, cludg Sudnly, Last Summer, which had Clift play a gay man.
THE MEN WHO TURNED DAVE HOLM GAY
Their marriage is believed to be a lavenr marriage, which was an arrangement ma to bunk mors that they were both gay. Diana McLellan mentns this her book The Girls and the uple’s relatnship is heavily analyzed William Mann’s Behd the Screen: How Gays and Lbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969.
Actor Bob Cummgs is quoted the book as sayg, “Ja Gaynor’s hband was Adrian, the MGM fashn signer. Gaynor and Adrian were succsful durg a time when any sort of evince of their homosexualy would have hurt their reers, so ’s not surprisg that there isn’t ncrete evince about the tth of their relatnship.
Dpe this, a wealth of people on Twter have argued that Enola is gay the thor has actually addrsed the ambiguy of the character’s sexualy on her own Twter acunt as recently as July 2022, clarifyg the suatn. Also Read: Jse Palmer Datg; Gather All Gay Rumors, Hot Girliend Will Kick Them OffLet’s Fd Out Whether Mike Is Gay or Has WifeFor those who thk that Mike is gay then you have absolutely mistaken him.
KELLY HOLM OUT AS GAY: ‘I NEED TO DO THIS NOW, FOR ME’
'Gay' Couple: Mike Holm pos wh long-time girliend Anna Zappia an event 2018 (Photo:)You May Like: What If Ross Hull Is Gay? Well, wh such an open relatnship the media, there might be no one left to speculate Mike as a gay. 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.
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.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
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