I know. It should have been a man. It’s ridiculous that the first positive queer characters on Star Trek were on Discovery. It shouldn’t have taken that long.
Ira Stephen Behr and Ronald D. Moore later lamented that they didn’t push back harder against Berman and other producers for queer representation on DS9 in the DS9 documentary What We Left Behind. They notably had tried in the beginning with Garak and Bashir and were immediately shut down.
Behr, in particular, really felt bad about it.
Edit: Andy Robinson, who played Garak, had a real “fuck you” attitude about that and continued to play Garak as “omnisexual” anyway. There are little hints and innuendos throughout the entire entire series between him and Dr. Bashir. 
He keeps his options open.
And Frakes was down with his interest being played by a man.
I know. It should have been a man. It’s ridiculous that the first positive queer characters on Star Trek were on Discovery. It shouldn’t have taken that long.
Ira Stephen Behr and Ronald D. Moore later lamented that they didn’t push back harder against Berman and other producers for queer representation on DS9 in the DS9 documentary What We Left Behind. They notably had tried in the beginning with Garak and Bashir and were immediately shut down.
Behr, in particular, really felt bad about it.
Edit: Andy Robinson, who played Garak, had a real “fuck you” attitude about that and continued to play Garak as “omnisexual” anyway. There are little hints and innuendos throughout the entire entire series between him and Dr. Bashir. 
All I’m saying is they had daily lunch dates and Bashir doesn’t pursue Dax as much when Garak is around.
all I’m saying is nobody gets their pants altered that often, and “your pants are ready to be picked up” is their not-very-subtle fuck code.
Garak would be a power bottom.
Who wouldn’t want a genetically-engineered top?
To quote Neelix from Avenue 5:
“A hole’s a hole, I’ll take it where I can get it“
Now quote Neelix from Benson!
What are you saying Benson?