BBC drama hts Sherlock Holm is gay

Contents:

• 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
• IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?
• BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY
• ‘SHERLOCK’ SHOWNNERS BUNK GAY MORS NEW TERVIEW
• GAY SHERLOCK HOLM PASTICH
• DID ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE HOLM AND WATSON AS A GAY UPLE?
• THE ‘SHERLOCK’ CREATORS REALLY WANT FANS TO KNOW SHERLOCK AND JOHN AREN’T GAY

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

A few months ago, the mors started aga: Did Benedict Cumberbatch jt out Sherlock as gay?!

IS SHERLOCK HOLM 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. 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.

BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY

" 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. " But there's no actual "gay ntent"—and there isn't likely to be any the sequel, eher. It is the age old qutn…Is he gay or European?

‘SHERLOCK’ SHOWNNERS BUNK GAY MORS NEW TERVIEW

And Ju Law will reportedly nfirm that Holm and Watson are gay. But everyone wants to believe he’s gay.

He’s not gay. Is Sherlock gay? 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.

GAY SHERLOCK HOLM PASTICH

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.

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.

DID ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE HOLM AND WATSON AS A GAY UPLE?

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.

Gay Sherlock Holm Pastich (46 books),.

Gay Sherlock Holm Pastich. 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 ‘SHERLOCK’ CREATORS REALLY WANT FANS TO KNOW SHERLOCK AND JOHN AREN’T GAY

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.

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.