The "too close for comfort" effect.

Yeah, the homoeroticism fanaticism is getting a bit carried away these days. Personally, I enjoy it. It's fun. I don't seriously think there are homosexual relationships going on with real people or intended in a work of fiction, though. Most of the time, it's just one way of interpreting a situation, and I think the creative industry is well aware of these possibilities.

At this point, it's just plain good marketing to write relationships in movies/games/etc in such a way that there's a possibility for consumers of any orientation to derive some vicarious enjoyment by reading between the lines. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, and real life relationships can be vaguely erotic or whatever so it makes sense. It's just when people argue about characters or celebrities, as if we know for a fact what they do in the bedroom, that it becomes a problem.

Jam it back in, in the dark.