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Contents:

• STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT GAY
• 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
• IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?
• SHERLOCK HOLM 3 WILL REPORTEDLY CONFIRM HOLM AND WATSON ARE GAY
• ‘SHERLOCK’ SHOWNNERS BUNK GAY MORS NEW TERVIEW
• BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY
• IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?
• THE WAY SHERLOCK CREATORS TOLD FANS SHERLOCK & JOHN AREN’T GAY IS SO 
• MART FREEMAN: 'SHERLOCK IS GAYT STORY EVER'
• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, MART FREEMAN REVEAL LETED ‘SHERLOCK’ GAY BAR SCENE

STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT GAY

Could Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holm actually be…gay? But everyone wants to believe he’s gay. He’s not gay.

So he’s not gay or straight. 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.

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

IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?

"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. In S01E03, when he meets Sherlock, Sherlock duc him as gay.

So, is Jim really 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.

They sound pretty tired of the speculatn, followg a Comic-Con panel where Moffat spoke general terms about wrg gay characters on mastream TV—which some fans then misterpreted as a veiled ht about Sherlock. “It is furiatg ankly, to be talkg about a ser subject and to have Twter n around and say, ‘Oh that means Sherlock is gay, '” said Moffat. I’m a gay man.

SHERLOCK HOLM 3 WILL REPORTEDLY CONFIRM HOLM AND WATSON ARE GAY

Dependg on who you ask, this is eher a harmls joke, a tratg and potentially homophobic example of queerbag, or proof that the Johnlock Conspiracy is real. The end rult is a show that arguably clus gay subtext, wh an dience that lov to vise plex fan theori, and shownners whose terview quot n’t be tsted.

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”. 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.

‘SHERLOCK’ SHOWNNERS BUNK GAY MORS NEW TERVIEW

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).

BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY

"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. "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.

IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?

" But there's no actual "gay ntent"—and there isn't likely to be any the sequel, eher. “It is furiatg, ankly, to be talkg about a ser subject and to have Twter n around and say, oh, that means Sherlock is gay.

Mart Freeman has suggted that Sherlock is the "gayt story the history of televisn". It's the gayt story the history of televisn... "'Sherlock' -creator: For the last time, Holm is not gay!

"The way Sherlock creators told fans Sherlock & John aren't gay is so " - July 29, 2016. "'Sherlock' shownners bunk gay mors new terview" - July 28, 2016. "Cumberbatch, Moffat: 'Sherlock's not gay'" - July 25, 2010.

THE WAY SHERLOCK CREATORS TOLD FANS SHERLOCK & JOHN AREN’T GAY IS SO 

I am beyond for gay rights, and I do support gay reprentatn media. "There's no ditn the origal stori that he was asexual or gay. What we didn’t know is that there was a scene filmed that took place at a gay bar.

There was the gay club scene. Mart explaed the scene: “We were absolutely mullered the gay club – lots of topls men gog past, and jt gog ‘Why are we here?

MART FREEMAN: 'SHERLOCK IS GAYT STORY EVER'

We’re pretty sure that Sherlock fans would have been lighted by a longer episo, pecially if clud the gay bar scene. Unfortunately for , Moffat seems to thk that the gay bar scene is better left on the cuttg-room floor and ’ll likely not make to the DVD extras when ’s released later this year. Would you have liked to see Sherlock at a gay bar?

Many of the most popular ships, the majory even, are slash: That’s the term to scrib gay-male pairgs. Conan Doyle wasn’t tryg to create a homosexual subtext when he wrote the characters, but he did wre a ep and mted iendship, and Johnlock shippers are not the first people to see somethg romantic that bond, not the first people, to put amic termology, who have “queered the text.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, MART FREEMAN REVEAL LETED ‘SHERLOCK’ GAY BAR SCENE

In the 1970 Billy Wilr film The Private Life of Sherlock Holm, a favore of Sherlock -creator Mark Gatiss (an openly gay man himself), ’s strongly implied that Sherlock Holm is gay. The ia all this analysis led to was that John Watson and Sherlock Holm were not only characters wh gay subtext who should be together, they were gay characters who were gog to get together the show. I want to be clear that there were people who were to Johnlock or TJLC different ways, who thought of primarily as a great hope or a fun ia or a worthy e, a huge leap forward for gay reprentatn.