'Sherlock' -creator: For the last time, Holm is not gay! |

Contents:

• DID ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE HOLM AND WATSON AS A GAY UPLE?
• WERE SHERLOCK HOLM AND DR WATSON GAY? LET'S GO BACK TO THE ORIGAL TEXT
• 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
• IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?
• SHERLOCK HOLM 3 WILL REPORTEDLY CONFIRM HOLM AND WATSON ARE GAY

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.

WERE SHERLOCK HOLM AND DR WATSON GAY? LET'S GO BACK TO THE ORIGAL TEXT

Sherlock Holm, after all, is one of a long le of athetic, homosexual tectiv. Historian Graham Robb tails the end homosexualy of Dup Strangers: Homosexual Love the 19th Century.

'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!

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.

I love to image queer men pickg up the Sherlock Holm omnib, enjoyg the lovely domticy and great adventur of the Baker Street bachelors, homosexual subtext and all. 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. So, for those people who say “Sherlock Holm was not gay the books! This was the 19th century, was impossible for someone to be an openly gay man or wre an openly gay character.

IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?

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.

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. Strangers – Homosexual Love the Neteenth Century, Graham Robb. 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.

It’s about homosexual love and relatnships the 19th century and ’s terribly tertg. 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.

SHERLOCK HOLM 3 WILL REPORTEDLY CONFIRM HOLM AND WATSON ARE GAY

“Everyone already knows, stctively, that Holm is homosexual. 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.