‘Sherlock’ Fans Were Robbed of the Gay Endg They Derved

Contents:

• 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
• IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?
• BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY
• IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?
• WERE SHERLOCK HOLM AND DR WATSON GAY? LET'S GO BACK TO THE ORIGAL TEXT
• SHERLOCK HOLM 3 WILL REPORTEDLY CONFIRM HOLM AND WATSON ARE GAY
• DID ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE HOLM AND WATSON AS A GAY UPLE?
• STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT GAY
• MART FREEMAN ADDRS ‘TENSE’ SHERLOCK GAY FAN THEORI
• 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?! 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. " Are we really likely to see a gay Sherlock Holm?

IS SHERLOCK HOLM 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.

BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY

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

IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?

And Ju Law will reportedly nfirm that Holm and Watson are gay.

But everyone wants to believe he’s gay.

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

He’s not gay.

Is Sherlock gay?

In S01E03, when he meets Sherlock, Sherlock duc him as gay. So, is Jim really gay? Was Sherlock Holm gay?

SHERLOCK HOLM 3 WILL REPORTEDLY CONFIRM HOLM AND WATSON ARE GAY

Telegraph – Robert Downey Jr hts Sherlock Holm was gay. Pk News – BBC drama hts Sherlock Holm is 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. 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.

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. Could Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holm actually be…gay? So he’s not gay or straight.

Sherlock star Mart Freeman has spoken about stgglg to al wh fans of the show who believed his character was gay.

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

MART FREEMAN ADDRS ‘TENSE’ SHERLOCK GAY FAN THEORI

Watson was revealed to be gay and love wh Sherlock as the season progrsed. While that velopment was praised by some, others cricized for the later revelatn that Watson had a hand the ath of Holm’ wife Alice, leadg to allegatns that the show was employg the harmful “evil gay” trope. Last year, creator Steven Moffat ma clear that Sherlock is not gay.

“Everyone wants to believe he’s gay, ” Moffat said. “He’s not gay.

” Those three simple words — “he’s not gay” — weren’t good enough. The topic me up aga durg last weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con, where Moffat was on a panel about how homosexual relatnships are picted media, specifilly on science-fictn televisn shows. “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.

THE ‘SHERLOCK’ CREATORS REALLY WANT FANS TO KNOW SHERLOCK AND JOHN AREN’T GAY

I’m a gay man.

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.