SusiGo wrote:

Yes, I would like to hear that as well. I just started watching "Torchwood" and only after seven episodes had a look at John Barrowman's biography. And believe it or not, I never had the idea he might be gay. But maybe this is just me. 

That's totally OT, but you should watch some interviews or better still Comic Con appearances of John...
 

Even a gay man may marry a woman. Stranger things have happened.

It's a common English expression: if something  looks like a duck, talks like a duck and walks like a duck,,,then the high probability is that it is indeed a duck.

Last edited by besleybean (July 29, 2014 1:52 pm)

No it isn't.
But we have no evidence that John is either gay or bisexual.

Okay, if you only decide on visible appearances ...besley .. then you are right.

Last edited by gently69 (July 29, 2014 1:59 pm)

Well, let us see what John's girlfriends will think about them getting touchy-feely. They were quite unimpressed even with the way it was before. 

See this is what I'm not getting.
What(for people)ifferentiates a friendship from a relationship?

Easy - that it is mutually exclusive. You can have a lot of friends but only one life partner (this is at least my opinion). 
How do you imagine their relationship to be? If John is heterosexual, he will want to have a relationship with a woman and/or marry again. This leaves Sherlock alone. Again. I think the condition  for having them together in 221B again will have to be a profound change in their relationship. 

Well, he was wanting them. This is correct. But he only got one when Sherlock was presumed dead. 

We saw him trying again and again and failing. The women running away because they saw that they could never be for him what Sherlock was. He only started a longer relationship when he was alone and broken and depressed. 

Last edited by SusiGo (July 29, 2014 2:24 pm)

We are not talking about 'a relationship' and 'a friendship' here, we are talking about John and Sherlock. Maybe there isn't even an accurate term with which to describe their relationship.
I just know from my personal experience- and we've already been over this again and again and again, but never mind - that I've never seen two men who share such an intimate relationship and call it 'bromance'. It is a very close and very special friendship for sure, but it goes beyond that. The two pics Susi posted earlier really say it all. You don't even have to have them in the room together, you just need one of them and the empty chair of the other one. Things can't get more emotional and intimate than that.