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Contents:

• STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT GAY
• IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?
• BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY
• DID BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH JT OUT SHERLOCK AS GAY?
• WERE SHERLOCK HOLM AND DR WATSON GAY? LET'S GO BACK TO THE ORIGAL TEXT
• 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
• DID ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE HOLM AND WATSON AS A GAY UPLE?
• IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?
• BBC FANS WANT SHERLOCK HOLM AND DR WATSON TO BE GAY LOVERS

STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT 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. The BBC sisted that John Watson and Sherlock Holm aren’t gay lovers.

IS JAM MORIARTY GAY, BBC'S SHERLOCK?

Today: Who gets to ci if Sherlock Holm is gay? Der Rg explor the Johnlock nspiracy, a fan theory about the BBC TV show Sherlock, which poss the evabily of a gay romance between Sherlock Holm and John Watson. Make Me Believe’s “Gay Subtext Sherlock” vio.

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.

BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY

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

DID BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH JT OUT SHERLOCK AS GAY?

It is the age old qutn…Is he gay or European? And Ju Law will reportedly nfirm that Holm and Watson are gay. Is Sherlock 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. Was Sherlock Holm gay?

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

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

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

But everyone wants to believe he's gay. He's 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. 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.

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

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.

The assumptns are met wh apathy om Sherlock and abject nial and “I’m not gay!

IS SHERLOCK HOLM 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).

BBC FANS WANT SHERLOCK HOLM AND DR WATSON TO BE GAY LOVERS

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.

The unaired pilot for BBC Sherlock is known lloquially among Sherlock fans, as the ‘Gay Pilot’ One particularly memorable scene is when Sherlock has climbed a roof lookg for evince, wh the moon the background (of urse) while John looks on awe. But was the Sherlock team also asked to tone down the gay symbolism?