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

'Sherlock' -creator: For the last time, Holm is not gay! * sherlock cumberbatch 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. ”Sexualy is at the foreont of Cumberbatch’s hotly anticipated film, The Imatn Game, which he plays Alan Turg, a gay man who was wily creded wh crackg the Enigma durg World War II. Tragilly, Turg mted suici after the war when he was nvicted of “engagg homosexual relatns”.

”Cumberbatch, who officiated his iends’ Seth Cummgs and Rob Rr’s civil ceremony Ibiza last year, also spoke about how difficult is for gay actors Hollywood. “I thk if you’re gog to sell yourself as a leadg man Hollywood to say ‘I’m gay’, sadly, is still a huge obstacle, ” he said. “We all know actors who are [gay] who don’t want to talk about or brg up, or who ny .

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

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

Human rights movements and sexual and gay rights movements have ma huge social progrs the last 40 years, whout a doubt, but there’s a lot more work to be done. 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.

DID BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH JT OUT SHERLOCK AS GAY?

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

He’s not gay. 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.

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The star and wrer of Sherlock ny suggtns of a gay relatnship between Holm and Watson. * sherlock cumberbatch gay *

The star didn't elaborate on his bombshell - but is sure to be weled by many show's first seri featured a nng joke about Sherlock and Mart Freeman's Watson beg a relatnship - and Cumberbatch has prevly revealed that they shot a scene a gay club for one episo, but end up on the cuttg room floor. At one time mors were very actively spread that actor Benedikt Cumberbatch was gay.

To some extent, the gossip is also related to the fact that the actor played the part of Alan Turg the movie "The Game of Imatn", which cracked the of the German Enigma encryptn mache durg the Send World War, and was later prosecuted for his homosexualy.

Benedict Cumberbatch has suggted that his character BBC seri Sherlock is gay.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH IS GAY?

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. Could Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holm actually be…gay?

CUMBERBATCH SUGGTS HE PLAYS SHERLOCK AS A GAY MAN

But everyone wants to believe he’s gay.

So he’s not gay or straight.

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

But the movie that might earn him an Osr nomatn is The Imatn Game, a bpic about the gay mathematician Alan Turg and his role breakg the Enigma ed by Germany durg the Send World War.

CUMBERBATCH, MOFFAT: 'SHERLOCK'S NOT GAY'

But what brgs the film to life is Cumberbatch's immensely engagg performance as Turg, a misf at ease wh his homosexualy (he named his puter Christopher after an unrequed schoolboy csh), but utterly at odds wh the world around him. "Cumberbatch, who has clearly done his rearch, thks the persecutn of homosexuals the U. Has s roots the Cambridge Five, a group of men, some of them gay, at the hight echelons of society, who had been reced to spy for Mosw.

"If you were tellectual, if you were gay, if you had any kd of liberal ias, you were immediately a threat to natnal secury.

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

" The irony is that Turg, who had the temery to be gay and tellectual, was the last person to see himself as any kd of martyr. " Perhaps, I suggt, makg Holm and Watson gay is a way to remove other women om the picture. "He is ls charable about the culture at Harrow, which he characteriz as havg, at the time, "a really low tolerance for homosexualy, " a fact starkly illumated when two boys were publicly outed at the dg hall one morng durg breakfast.

Why, are you gay?

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH TALKS SHERLOCK/WATSON GAY FAN FICTN & TOLERANCE FOR 'OUT' COVER STORY

"I thk if you're gog to sell yourself as a leadg man Hollywood, " he says, "to say 'I'm gay, ' sadly, is still a huge obstacle. We all know actors who are [gay] who don't want to talk about or brg up, or who ny .

"Human rights movements and sexual and gay rights movements have ma huge social progrs the last 40 years, whout a doubt, but there's a lot more work to be done, " he says.

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