Is Sherlock Holmes gay?
Poll Do you think Sherlock Holmes was gay?You people have no idea how much fan fic I've glossed over at the Sherlock Holmes kink meme. I was just interested in seeing how much of it was Watson/Sherlock and all that other fun stuff. I didn't take a very good or long look, I just glossed over it.
However, Homosexuality lost its criminal punishment in the 1800's because Victoria England was progressing and what have you. It wasn't something that people just talked about, however, being a homosexual in that time era was kept quiet. The Church during that time would marry people of the same gender - quietly.
I've been re-reading my Sherlock Holmes book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and I don't think Sherlock is gay. I think he's just eccentric and weird. Watson is just a very good friend and the new movie by Guy Richie shows how good of friends they are. It's along the lines of Remus and Sirius from Harry Potter. Even though that's a very popular pairing in that fandom, they can be written into a same sex relationship. Even, I have found that Homosexuality, in some fan fic, is very much accepted by the Wizarding world.
That's a post for another time, however.
What I meant to do by this comparison of Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter is that a very close, best friend relationship can be taken out of context by some who either want to read something or want to write something and that small fact has to be ignored to make the writing work. I see this done all the time in POTC fan fic. Even though Disney never set a time frame for their Pirate era movies - if we are to set POTC anywhere, it'd be in the 1700's. Several years before a corset was even thought of as high fashion. Which generally makes the POTC audience confused at to the time setting. Be that as it may, Homosexuality in that period, aboard pirate ships even, was not tollerable. They still thought themselves as stand up people. The Articles of both Pirates and the Navy were a very important part of life and "Buggery" is listed in both sets. It, I think, was taken the most seriously besides not having ones weapons in order or stealing.
However, Homosexuality lost its criminal punishment in the 1800's because Victoria England was progressing and what have you. It wasn't something that people just talked about, however, being a homosexual in that time era was kept quiet. The Church during that time would marry people of the same gender - quietly.
I've been re-reading my Sherlock Holmes book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and I don't think Sherlock is gay. I think he's just eccentric and weird. Watson is just a very good friend and the new movie by Guy Richie shows how good of friends they are. It's along the lines of Remus and Sirius from Harry Potter. Even though that's a very popular pairing in that fandom, they can be written into a same sex relationship. Even, I have found that Homosexuality, in some fan fic, is very much accepted by the Wizarding world.
That's a post for another time, however.
What I meant to do by this comparison of Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter is that a very close, best friend relationship can be taken out of context by some who either want to read something or want to write something and that small fact has to be ignored to make the writing work. I see this done all the time in POTC fan fic. Even though Disney never set a time frame for their Pirate era movies - if we are to set POTC anywhere, it'd be in the 1700's. Several years before a corset was even thought of as high fashion. Which generally makes the POTC audience confused at to the time setting. Be that as it may, Homosexuality in that period, aboard pirate ships even, was not tollerable. They still thought themselves as stand up people. The Articles of both Pirates and the Navy were a very important part of life and "Buggery" is listed in both sets. It, I think, was taken the most seriously besides not having ones weapons in order or stealing.