Did Benedict Cumberbatch Out BBC's 'Sherlock' As 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?!

STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT 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’ SHOWNNERS BUNK GAY MORS NEW TERVIEW

But everyone wants to believe he's gay.

He's not gay. Could Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holm actually be…gay? But everyone wants to believe he’s gay.

He’s not gay.

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

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

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.

CUMBERBATCH, MOFFAT: 'SHERLOCK'S NOT GAY'

‘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.