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IS HERCULE POIROT GAY? – BS ROUNDUPS
The playwright suggts, 1940s homophobic language, that if the leadg man has no girliend, the rearship will assume he is gay. It is possible some 1940s rears may have speculated Poirot was gay rather than asexual. While is hard to nfirm if this was somethg Christie enuntered, given the time perd's tense homophobia, was certaly not somethg she uld have addrsed.
” But is he also gay? Some fans of the book have long speculated that Poirot is gay, based on his effemate mannerisms and his close iendships wh other men, cludg his valet, Hastgs.
While Poirot’s sexualy is never explicly stated the books, some rears have terpreted his behavr as ditive of a gay man. Until 1969, homosexualy was not a thg. Each eccentric man is stereotyped as gay, and the killer is ually the same person.