mottlemoth:It’s taken me a few weeks to remember who said it and where, but“I think when the day...

mottlemoth:

It’s taken me a few weeks to remember who said it and where, but

“I think when the day comes that you have a big detective show where the first half hour was this man at work and he’s a maverick and all the usual things and then we went home and his boyfriend says, ‘Are you alright?’ it was just a thing, then something would have genuinely changed.”

- Mark Gatiss for Gay Magazine, February 2012 (x)

What a pity that Mark Gatiss, an openly gay man who co-wrote and co-ran a show about a detective, didn’t have the guts to be the one to make that happen when he had the chance. What a shame that he didn’t use that platform, that he chose instead to squelch all the people who saw the relationship for what they queerbaited it to be and did everything in his power to kill the chemistry, up to and including casting one person’s then-RL partner, and all but killing the onscreen friendship rather than risk anyone thinking that those two characters even liked each other anymore. What a genuine pity and a shame for all of us in the LGBTQIA+ community worldwide. Those characters deserved better. WE deserved better.