I am very much pro-gay in general, but I do wish the community would stop retconning every example they can find into 'actually gay'. I don't mind their headcan

I am very much pro-gay in general, but I do wish the community would stop retconning every example they can find into 'actually gay'. I don't mind their headcanons or fan fictions, but there is a layer of meaning you can get from Holmes/Watson if you read it as an intense but non-sexual relationship, of the kind that A. Conan Doyle and his readers would have recognised. Same for Frodo/Sam, also Tolkien was very religious, so I doubt he intended any sexual subtext.