Cumberbatch, Moffat: 'Sherlock's not gay'

Contents:

• 'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
• STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT GAY
• ‘SHERLOCK’ SHOWNNERS BUNK GAY MORS NEW TERVIEW
• MART FREEMAN REVEALS SHERLOCK VIEWERS FELT ‘BETRAYED’ HIS CHARACTER AND BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH’S WEREN’T GAY
• SHERLOCK IS ‘NOT GAY, BUT NOT STRAIGHT EHER’ ACRDG TO STEVEN MOFFAT
• CUMBERBATCH, MOFFAT: 'SHERLOCK'S NOT 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.

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

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. They sound pretty tired of the speculatn, followg a Comic-Con panel where Moffat spoke general terms about wrg gay characters on mastream TV—which some fans then misterpreted as a veiled ht about Sherlock.

‘SHERLOCK’ SHOWNNERS BUNK GAY MORS NEW TERVIEW

“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, '” said Moffat. I’m a gay man. Dependg on who you ask, this is eher a harmls joke, a tratg and potentially homophobic example of queerbag, or proof that the Johnlock Conspiracy is real.

The end rult is a show that arguably clus gay subtext, wh an dience that lov to vise plex fan theori, and shownners whose terview quot n’t be tsted. 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. Why do people thk Sherlock is gay?

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

Perhaps 's jt a very vol mory, but seems a large number of people believe he's 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. 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]. 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.

SHERLOCK IS ‘NOT GAY, BUT NOT STRAIGHT EHER’ ACRDG TO STEVEN MOFFAT

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.

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!

CUMBERBATCH, MOFFAT: 'SHERLOCK'S NOT 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). 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.