'Sherlock' -creator: For the last time, Holm is not gay! |

Contents:

• IS SHERLOCK HOLM GAY?
• 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
• MART FREEMAN: 'SHERLOCK IS GAYT STORY EVER'

IS SHERLOCK HOLM 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? 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.

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

MART FREEMAN: 'SHERLOCK IS GAYT STORY EVER'

He's not gay. 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.

Mart Freeman has suggted that Sherlock is the "gayt story the history of televisn". It's the gayt story the history of televisn...