Was Sherlock Holmes gay for Watson?

Holmes gets mad that Watson decides to get married, doesn't like it when Watson bring ups his wife.

He invites Watson on extended cases on a regularly basis, despite the fact that Watson really doesn't do much except chronicle Holmes adventures. Something that Holmes has said is his least favorite thing about Watson.

Holmes pistol whips a guy for shooting Watson and it is the only time Holmes is ever shaken up by the violence he encounters.

He spends a good deal of his fortune buying out Watson's medical practice so that Watson can retire and come live with him.

While Holmes was on the lam pretending to be dead, he says that all he could ever think of was about wanting to write to Watson and tell him that he was alive.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did base Holmes' character off of a doctor that he admired greatly... he could well have been playing out a fantasy relationship between himself and his idol.

Freaky.

Thing is though that Watson is decidedly not gay. So that doesn't really work if Doyle is supposed to be Watson.

Watson is the closest thing Holmes has to a friend, that's all.

He is possesive of his friend and, for all Holmes' reputation he wants to impress Watson so that he will always be the highest status person of the two of them. Holmes can't get the respect he craves from Watson if Watson thinks he is dead or if Wastson has a whife as Watson will be idolising his wife's jugs and not not Holmes' intelect.

Holmes gets mad that Watson decides to get married, doesn't like it when Watson bring ups his wife.
Maybe it reminds Holmes of his own lack of success in that department.

Holmes just has poor social skills and doesn't know how to express things right.

Ok, but what about the living together on a beach or something at the end?

That's kinda gay.

Yeah kind of gay but people did that back then.
people did a lot of things that were really gay out of necessity like cramming all together in the same bed to sleep.
That is probably one of the reasons people raged at gays so much back in the day. That is to say people were doing so many things that were only ok to them if they assumed almost NO ONE was gay.
"We're all men here right chaps?"

>>8
Excuse me. Are you calling my grandpeppy gay?

>>8

Ahh, the good old days of Manly Snuggling.

try reading one of them with this frame of mind.

oh how obvious it becomes, and it scares me.

"I'm not going to tell you much more of the case, Doctor. You know a
conjuror gets no credit when once he has explained his trick,
and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will
come to the conclusion that I am a very ordinary individual
after all."

"I shall never do that," I answered; "you have brought
detection as near an exact science as it ever will be brought
in this world."

My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the
earnest way in which I uttered them. I had already observed
that he was as sensitive to flattery on the score of his art
as any girl could be of her beauty.

>>11
"I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake, as if to say that the situation was within his powers and that he was easy in his mind."

--The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton

"It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits.

'Very sorry to knock you up, Watson,' said he[.]"

Dur-hurr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkS62r3eD6M&feature=PlayList&p=1546230B78C620FC&index=0

Moriarty was here, Holmes is gay!

Hi, I was told this was a more suitable place for my post. I wrote a short story for class. I'll post the 1st paragraph.If you like it, I will post more. tell me what you think. THANKS

Left for Dead

    They got to Kara too late. They heard her screaming for

help but the creatures formed a wall between them. Her screams

were more of anger than of fear. Her last thought to herself in

this world as she fired uselessly into the crowd was “How could

have I let myself be cornered?”  These monsters were getting

smarter. The survivors had taken to calling them monsters

because they were easier to kill that way. No one wanted to

think of these blood-lusting animals as who they used to be;

mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters… friends. They had already

picked off Tyson early on when he lagged behind sifting through

the rubble for some ammunition. They heard his cries as he was

dragged away but they could not reach him. When they finally

plowed through the wave of monsters all they found of Kara was

an eviscerated carcass. They were all alone now and as they

stood over Kara’s avatar for a few seconds while they reloaded

Leo yelled, “Shit, Casey! How are we supposed to beat this game

now?”
...
SHOULD I CONTINUE?

Ah... This makes too much sense. Please don't ruin Holmes for me.

Oh god... What does this say about Data from Star Trek?

You mean...Data...And Geordie...?

>>17
Proceed...