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Hope and JL explore the world of queer readings and possible queer coding in ACD canon. Big thanks to meta consultants Tendergingergirl and  BakerStreetCrow! 

Shownotes: 

• Queer Readings of ACD (0:25:46)↑
  Consulting Fans: Hope, Johnlocked, Producer/Editor: Johnlocked
  Texts and Published Works:
  • The Stark Munro Letters
  • The Complete Sherlock Holmes and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
  • Shakespeare’s sonnets 26, 57, 58
  • Sherlock Holmes: A Secret History by John V. Hennessy
  • Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham Robb
  • London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914 by Matt Cook
  • The Case of Sherlock Holmes: Secrets and Lies in Conan Doyle’s Detective Fiction by Andrew Glazzard
  • Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  • My Dearest Holmes by Rohase Piercy
  • Pursuing Sherlock Holmes by Bill Mason
  • Sherlock’s Men: Masculinity, Conan Doyle, and Cultural History by Joseph A. Kestner
  • Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity by Diana Barsham

  Fan Meta:

  • Decoding the Subtext: Being an examination of the homoerotic subtext contained within the Sherlock Holmes Canon by Nekosmuse
  • Aurora’s Feather: The Queer Decoding Of The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle by Tendergingergirl (locked to AO3 users)
  • Ghost Stories Are Gay Stories and 1895 by heimishtheidealhusband
  • Sherlock’s Last Shot and Pursuing Sherlock Holmes: Bill Mason, Sherlockian, Book Series by Tendergingergirl
  • Artemisastarte meta on the Bohemian Connection,  a shift in queer coding, and ACD’s medical view of homosexuality
  • On the Stark Munro Letters by sherlock-overflow-error
  • Weeesi’s meta on Arthur Conan Doyle and Subtext, Sherlock Holmes and Victorian Homosexuality, Masterpost – Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century, and London and the Culture of Homosexuality – Masterpost
  • Inevitably-johnlocked’s meta masterpost related to ACD and mini-list
  • Sherlock Holmes and Victorian Homosexuality Part 1 & Part 2 by Groovy Mutant
  • Watson was a Woman? by Rex Stout

  Academic Papers

  • Sexuality in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four. A study in autoeroticism and homosexuality by Irene Rubio
  • Holmes and Watson or Sherlock and John: A homoerotic reading of Conan Doyle’s Characters in BBC’s Sherlock by Melissa Caro Lancho
  • Brainy is the New Sexy: Masculinity in Sherlock Holmes by Ginny Walrecht

This segment was first released on June 1, 2019 in Episode 93: Pride in the Queerness of His Name.

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