Question for the book-banners

Given the Victorian era, a writer couldn't deliberately create an openly (or even quietly) gay couple for public literary consumption. But gay people existed, and had romances. Arthur Conan Doyle knew Oscar Wilde and got on with him very well, and Wilde was not exactly shy and retiring about his tastes, so that's at least some evidence that Conan Doyle personally wasn't homophobic even by Victorian standards.

Holmes and Watson live together for many of the Sherlock Holmes stories. When Dr. Watson marries, he'll drop everything to rush to Holmes's side for an adventure at the slightest request. They refer to each other frequently with affectionate terms:

my dear fellow
my dear Watson
my dear boy
my friend and partner
an ideal helpmate [synonym for spouse]
the best and wisest man
the man whom above all others I revere

And that's not even getting into how Watson faints when Holmes reveals that he's not dead in The Empty House, or the show-stopping breakdown Holmes briefly has when Watson is shot in The Three Garridebs.

Also related to Wilde, in The Three Students, Watson says, "It was in the year '95 that a combination of events, into which I need not enter, caused Mr. Sherlock Holmes and myself to spend some weeks in one of our great University towns." Wilde's trial for being gay was in 1895, and many gay Londoners suddenly found a reason to take a trip out of the city for a while. I can go on for a while, but the upshot is: there's plenty of subtext and room for interpretation.

Is there clear evidence, or even strong circumstantial evidence, that Conan Doyle was intending to write The Great Detective and his faithful biographer as a gay couple?