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

sherlock not gay

Mart Freeman reveals Sherlock viewers felt ‘betrayed’ his character John Watson and Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holm weren’t gay.

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

'Sherlock' -creator Steven Moffat recently told Entertament Weekly that Sherlock Holm is not gay. He's not straight eher. * sherlock 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.

But everyone wants to believe he's gay. He's not gay.

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

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

“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.

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch and wrer Stephen Moffat ny that the tective and his assistant Dr Watson are gay. "I don't thk there is anythg that suggts Sherlock is gay but if he was he wouldn't fancy John [Watson].

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

Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat want you to know that Sherlock and John are not gay on Sherlock, and they don't want to talk about . * sherlock not gay *

"'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. I am beyond for gay rights, and I do support gay reprentatn media. Moffatt me out and explaed that his terpretatn of Holm, expertly played by Benedict Cumberbatch, is neher gay nor straight.

He’s not gay. Why do people thk Sherlock is gay? Perhaps 's jt a very vol mory, but seems a large number of people believe he's gay.

CUMBERBATCH, MOFFAT: 'SHERLOCK'S NOT GAY'

The star and wrer of Sherlock ny suggtns of a gay relatnship between Holm and Watson. * sherlock not gay *

I n’t believe they didn’t make them 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. "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.

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* sherlock not gay *

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.

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.

SHERLOCK IS ‘NOT GAY, BUT NOT STRAIGHT EHER’ ACRDG TO STEVEN MOFFAT

In a chat wh Lren Laverne on the latt of Rad 4’s Dert Island Discs, the actor explaed fans felt let down the two characters didn’t e out as homosexual.

‘So by the time we filmed the last on there were some fans who were so adamant that John and Sherlock were gay, they knew and they knew that Steven (Moffat) and Mark (Gatiss) were gog to wre an episo where we held hands off to the sunset together, and so when that didn’t happen there was a chunk pf people gog, “This is betrayal”. ‘But everyone wants to believe he’s 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. " Are we really likely to see a gay Sherlock Holm?

‘SHERLOCK’ SHOWNNERS BUNK GAY MORS NEW TERVIEW

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.

MART FREEMAN REVEALS SHERLOCK VIEWERS FELT ‘BETRAYED’ HIS CHARACTER AND BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH’S WEREN’T GAY

There are a few reasons why Sherlock is believed to be asexual by some but 's only bee no one bothered wh the other optns (that he's gay). Now wh the other adaptatns, I know what you're thkg: "But he n be asexual and gay!

Sherlock beg gay and a relatnship wh Watson has been speculated sce the books were first wrten.

Sir Arthur of urse uldn't go beyond subtext and hts bee beg gay was actually a crime his time.

IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?

His iend (also an thor) Osr Wil was actually charged for beg gay and had his book The Picture of Dorian Grey succsfully ed agast him urt. Even the other adaptatns of Sherlock Holm the subject of him beg gay is explored and his apparent lack of attractn to women is shown.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* SHERLOCK NOT GAY

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