Is sherlock holmes gay in the books

Below is the dialogue and the link to the Youtube video:. This was the 19th century, it was impossible for someone to be an openly gay man or write an openly gay character. It is an unconventional portrayal of Sherlock Holmes but I am fond of it. Holmes shuts him down by telling him that he is being presumptuous.

Holmes declines her offer by hinting that he is in a relationship with Watson wishful thinking? Was it the way they looked at each other? HOLMES: A bachelor living with another bachelor for the last five years. Throughout the years it became even more obvious to us that this show is leading up to a relationship between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson for the first time!

But gay people existed, and had romances. Like many single unmarried adults, Holmes’ sexuality gets questioned. So here it goes. The things they said? Given the Victorian era, a writer couldn't deliberately create an openly (or even quietly) gay couple for public literary consumption.

Another scene I like is when a famous Russian ballerina wants Holmes to father her child; that way the child will inherit her beauty and his intellect. So many things. There was something more to it. Many Victorian readers believed that he was a real man who actually existed and resided in B Baker Street, solving crimes with his partner.

The first nudge-nudge-wink-wink always points to gay, though as often as not it may mean a person is bisexual, asexual, complicated or just plain lonely. MAN: You mean you and Dr Watson..? So, for those people who say “Sherlock Holmes was not gay in the books!”, this is my answer.

Since the first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet , was published in , the hearts of many generations have been captured by the stories of the famous detective and his intimate companion. Well… According to Billy Wilder, he should have been more daring and made Holmes openly gay.

If we only knew. From the very first episode I could see that there was something more between Sherlock and John. I had never seen anything like it and I found it brilliant. He is your glass of tea? There is one scene where Watson, wanting to confirm that Holmes is heterosexual, asks him if there have been women in his life.

Books shelved as lgbt-sherlock-holmes: Violin of the Night: A Sherlock Holmes / John Watson romance by Natasha Rosegold, A Fold in the Universe by darkes. Why did I choose to write about this one then? Both the Sherlock Holmes film franchise starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law, and the BBC1 series Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, have been interpreted as hinting at bromance between the leads.

Their body language? Five very happy years. Instead, Holmes is portrayed as gay but it is desperately unspoken and, according to Wilder, keeping it a secret is the reason he took drugs. I first watched Sherlock a couple of months after it first aired back in Of course, I was hooked.

But some thought that Cumberbatch was hinting that Sherlock is gay, a misconception that's the focus of plenty of online fanfiction, and that the show occasionally itself plays with. I am, however, a lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes stories, and I can tell you that Sherlock from the books is definitely asexual, and the show does an excellent job highlighting a lot of the same traits that show him as that.