Sherlock Holmes and Victorian Homosexuality

sherloki1854:

weeesi:

[This is the final post in my series on Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb. Previous posts can be found here.]

Dearest friends. Dear sweet ones. Dear softest lambs. Prepare yourselves.

Robb’s last chapter is on literature and literary references to homosexuality.

And he chooses to talk – at length – about Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.

He writes:

The following observations are not a sly attempt to ensnare the great detective in the elastic web of gay revisionism. Everyone already knows, instinctively, that Holmes is homosexual.

Well then.

If there is one post you read from this series, it should be this one.

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@weeesi I just want to tell you how much I loved this series. It’s brilliant. If I can find the book, I’ll read it… It’s good to see that not all SH theory in print is against any queer coding. Thanks!!