It is the age old qutn…Is he gay or European? In the se of beloved fictnal character Sherlock Holm the answer right now might jt be – wa for …
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- 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
- IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?
- BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY
'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
'Sherlock' -creator: For the last time, Holm is not gay! * sherlock 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. 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.
IS SHERLOCK HOLM 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.
BBC DRAMA HTS SHERLOCK HOLM IS GAY
"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.
Why do people thk Sherlock is gay? Perhaps 's jt a very vol mory, but seems a large number of people believe he's 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.