True. It has been a topic from the very first episode and has been addressed in one way or other in all 10 episodes. Therefore I have only contempt for the so-called "gay joke" argument. This goes much deeper. 

I very much needed this Johnlocking.  Let's keep it up Ladies.  In honor of Pride month, in honor of Orlando and in honor of our boys!

*presses hidden button*
*glitter bombs explode all over thread*
 

Susi, this is the right thread to post it. Over at the debate, you would only get Mumbai-answers in return. ;-)

Mumbai? TheWhotheWhattheWhytheWhentheWhere...?!

So I just had a look at this interview clip and I think Mark was cleverly trying to wiggle himself out of the situation. I prefer to address it in here for obvious reasons:

Because the big question is how to define "a show about an openly gay couple". IMO this would mean that you define Sherlock and John from the very beginning as being gay and out out and open about it which would have been a completely different show. What we see, however, is the story of two men slowly realising their feelings and coming to terms with them, fighting against gigantic impediments like Moriarty and Magnussen and Mary and their own shortcoming and fears and weaknesses . This is not the same as a show about "an openly gay couple". And, btw, John is in all probability bisexual so this label does not apply at all. 
 

Yes no point wasting breath .

Is it just me or have the interviewers and questions asked MG and SM in the UK and at cons been sort of non specific on the johnlock Q. I watched a whole load of them in one big go some time ago and I felt there was a bit of filtering going on and a lot of repeated questions and answers.
Perhaps most of the press in the uk and the Qs asked at con are filtered ish in order to avoid just such a scenario , but in India MG didn't have any control of what was asked and so as Susie writes was put on the spot.

From the very beginning Sherlock seems to be asking people to think and observe and come to their own opinions.  I trust what I see and hear in the show and quite clearly Irene already called S & J a couple , and quite clearly she meant sexualy . Johns not gay was canonically pointed out to be irrelevant. 

True. It has never been a real joke. There was always Sherlock's silence. And what is interesting: Mark says it was a joking nod to TPLOSH where Holmes pretends he and Watson are a gay couple. Which is true. What he chooses not to say is that according to his own statement Holmes was indeed gay and in love with Watson, the notorious "desperately unspoken" comment. 

I would really like to post this in the debate in order to refute that this is a valid argument against Johnlock but I will not do so for reasons you probably understand. 

But if anything is a joke, then to take this interview as proof against Johnlock. 
 

Heteronormativity at its worst. Every female ship with Sherlock is ridiculous. His relationships with the various women are about mutual respect and intellectual attraction. He is not a misogynist, I think, far less than Canon Holmes. He respects Molly's professional skills (think of TAB), Irene being his equal in some respects, Sarah being a clever, fearless woman, Janine being sassy and fun, Mrs Hudson (maybe) being a substitute mum quite different from his own - but all this is not love in an emotional and/or sexual sense. 
 

Yes, tonnaree, this would really make me laugh if it wasn't so sad. Show him with a woman for five seconds and she's a love interest. Show him with John for ten episodes plus a very gay Pilot and... well. 

Of course. The famous arches. As quoted by the very gay TPLOSH Holmes.