Cumberbatch, Moffat: 'Sherlock's not gay'

'SHERLOCK' -CREATOR: FOR THE LAST TIME, HOLM IS NOT GAY!
STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT GAY
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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!

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

'Sherlock' -creator Steven Moffat recently told Entertament Weekly that Sherlock Holm is not gay. He's not straight eher. * sherlock is 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. “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’ SHOWNNERS BUNK GAY MORS NEW TERVIEW

* sherlock is not gay *

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.

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

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

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.