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.

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?"