Sherlock Holmes Is Finally Free To Be Gay (opens in new tab)

I recently watched the utterly ridonkulous TV show Young Sherlock, which takes some delightfully strange liberties with the character of Sherlock Holmes. (Among other things, Holmes has an intensely homoerotic friendship with Moriarty, his family is a whole disaster, and he's utterly useless as a detective.) Watching all of these gloriously silly goings-on, my first thought was: I don't know if this could ever have been made if Sherlock Holmes hadn't entered the public domain. So yeah — for t...