Homoeroticism in BBC's Sherlock
Watson frequently encouraged Holmes to show an interest in women, including while they were alone - a thing he would hardly have done if they were intended to be a homosexual couple. The Short Stories The Theory Holmes, Watson, and male friendship.
For these 2 parts, I will use evidence from books about homosexuality at that time, books about Sherlock Holmes in general, and online sources about the subtext found in the original Sherlock Holmes stories. Part 1 will be all about homosexuality in the Victorian era, while part 2 will be an analysis of the homoerotic subtext in the stories. The relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson is the most popular pairing in the Sherlock Holmes fandom. Who Gets to Decide if a Fictional Character Is Gay?
The relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson is the most popular pairing in the Sherlock Holmes fandom. There has been some sort of speculation that Holmes and Watson were in a romantic relationship, and stories to that effect, for decades. However, the pairing being explicitly romantic, instead of subtextual, was rather rare, until fannish interest in the pairing expanded. In my previous post about Sherlock Holmes I mentioned how passionate I am about this topic. I have spent quite a few years doing research on this and I would like to share my findings with anyone out there who is interested. 
Holmes & Watson
There was an argument on Twitter the other day (ma nishtana) about whether Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson were lovers. It wasn't about the characters by those names in the BBC's "Sherlock" television series — that war has finished, with both sides declaring victory. This time, it was about the Holmes and the Watson of the original stories, written between 18by Arthur Conan. Before this week, I had never actually read Sherlock Holmes. I only knew Holmes through parodies, adaptations, and other cultural references.
Did Arthur Conan Doyle code Holmes and Watson as a gay couple?
So it's certainly true that the close relationship between Holmes and Watson is consistent with them both being straight, given the different mores of the time, and it doesn't have to be the case that they were written as secretly gay. An anthology of stories set in the world of Sherlock Holmes but with a gay twist… Though no longer in print, the collection remains one of the best gay takes on Sherlock and his world. Casual readers have wondered. 
Sherlock Holmes and Victorian Homosexuality – Part 1
The idea all this analysis led to was that John Watson and Sherlock Holmes were not only characters with gay subtext who should be together, they were gay characters who were going to get together. .
Holmes/Watson
An anthology of stories set in the world of Sherlock Holmes but with a gay twist Though no longer in print, the collection remains one of the best gay takes on Sherlock and his world. FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOSEPH R.G. DE MARCO Is Sherlock Holmes homosexual? Is Watson? Should we even be asking these questions? Casual readers have wondered. So have scholars. Graham Robb, in his engaging. .
'Sherlock' co
This document is a thesis titled "Holmes and Watson or Sherlock and John: A homoerotic reading of Conan Doyle’s Characters in BBC’s Sherlock." It introduces the topic of exploring homoerotic subtext between the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in both the original Conan Doyle short stories and novels as well as the modern BBC television series Sherlock. The document provides an. .