Cumberbatch suggts he plays Sherlock as a gay man - Attu

Contents:

• 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
• MART FREEMAN ADDRS ‘TENSE’ SHERLOCK GAY FAN THEORI
• DID BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH JT OUT SHERLOCK AS GAY?
• IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?
• IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?
• DID ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE HOLM AND WATSON AS A GAY UPLE?
• CUMBERBATCH SUGGTS HE PLAYS SHERLOCK AS A GAY MAN
• FICTNAL CHARACTERS YOU ALWAYS THOUGHT WERE 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?! 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 star Mart Freeman has spoken about stgglg to al wh fans of the show who believed his character was gay.

Mart Freeman: Sherlock fans nsired lack of gay relatnship ‘a betrayal’. Speakg on Dert Island Discs on Sunday (March 31), Freeman opened up about alg wh gay fan theori om “challengg” fans.

MART FREEMAN ADDRS ‘TENSE’ SHERLOCK GAY FAN THEORI

Freeman add: “By the time we filmed the last on, there were some fans who were so adamant… they knew 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. Although ’s never been nfirmed by the BBC if Cumberbatch’s Holm is supposed to be gay – the chemistry between him and Watson (played by Mart Freeman) has left ltle to the imagatn over the years. 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?

DID BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH JT OUT SHERLOCK AS GAY?

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. 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 SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?

"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?

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. Who the hell knows about Sherlock Holm, but – for the rerd – if anyone out there still r, I’m not actually gay. Benedict Cumberbatch has suggted that his character BBC seri Sherlock is gay.

IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?

Meanwhile, Cumberbatch recently discsed the graphic gay fan-fictn that the show has spired – fd out what he had to say here. Andrew Stt discs ‘Sherlock’ gay fan-fictn. Moriarty pretends to be gay upon first meetg Sherlock.

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.

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

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. Performance a Leadg Role, by Madlori, an AU which John and Sherlock are actors who fall love while playg gay a movie directed by Ang Lee. Gayv club - My Dear Watson [6].

Some fans felt that the potential of a gay relatnship between Sherlock and John was played for lghs and were not amed. They saw the show as another a long le of bromance shows that e "mistaken for gay" humour as a way of explicly namg the characters as not gay. Homoerotic subtext film and media has existed for generatns, harkg back to a time when homosexualy or bisexualy had to be hted at orr to get past the censors.

CUMBERBATCH SUGGTS HE PLAYS SHERLOCK AS A GAY MAN

Beg gay was illegal (and many plac still is) so the reprentatn of gay romance had to d and subtle – the hts, the heated looks.

Now we fally have the opportuny to watch explicly gay-centred TV shows and films. As a property, Sherlock wh a lot of baggage regardg homoerotic subtext.

Amics have been batg for s over whether Holm was gay, and whether he and Watson were dog more than jt solvg s together. The only gay portrayal of Sherlock Holm to date is Billy Wilr’s 1970s film The Private Life of Sherlock Holm, and the wrer/director himself wish the film had been far more explic and open about Holm’ orientatn:. I wanted to have Holm homosexual and not admtg to anyone, cludg maybe even himself.

FICTNAL CHARACTERS YOU ALWAYS THOUGHT WERE GAY

The assumptns are met wh apathy om Sherlock and abject nial and “I’m not gay! ” om John (no-one seems to mentn to him he don’t have to be gay to be a same sex relatnship – after all, bi people do exist).

There’s nothg ludicro about the ia of their favoure characters beg gay or bisexual, but ’s beg offered as a joke where the unrlyg ncept is that such a relatnship would be too awkward/impossible/funny for words.

BBC’s Sherlock is rife wh homoerotic subtext.