This is a personal post, but sometimes I think: I am so tired of living as a person who becomes a fan. I want to be a content provider instead. I want sway. I want someone to listen when I say, “Hey, it is not okay that you keep taking away the shows that keep LGBTQ kids fighting to stay alive. Look at the grand scheme of things, and think about what you want your legacy to be: do you want to build yourself based on what you take away from others, or based on what good you bring to the world? And if your answer is the former, then I implore you to take another look, because we have all had something important taken from us, and it should not be our place in this life to do the same harm against others, when we could be building a kinder world for them instead.”
That’s what I want to matter if I am the one who says it. I want to humanize eveyone, instead of watching shows continue to fail to do so, and then watching the few that do it right get torn away. It is a terrible pattern, to watch that which resonates with minorities constantly be lost, which leaves minorities abandoned. What they like… gets taken away, again, and again, and again. It becomes background hum, droning and endless and reminding, “This culture doesn’t care what people like you need. Because there are less of you, your worth is also less than that of the others.”
I’ve seen it all my life. I start to hope it changes, and someday it has to, and someday it will, but right now, everything I and people like me love and support is always on a trip wire, because I am a minority. I so often do not hold as much sway as I would need, to make a difference, and to make the stealing from the already stolen from happen a little less.
@bbcamerica, I’m going to be completely honest with you here. There have been more shows with LGBTQ representation in recent years, but they are often so exhausting. They obsess over the pain of “coming out” or “being different,” which means it is painful to watch them. For the first time, I found a show that does not hurt to watch. There were openly bi and gay characters – even the main protagonist – who never had a sad plot about his sexuality, never had to angst about it or be treated any differently. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is the first time I’ve actually seen a show with real, meaty, gorgeous plots that didn’t taint itself with pain, but rather celebrated being different with surging, absolute strength and joy. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a true world without the homophobia that exists even in all the other LGBTQ content that is marketed, again and again, as if it is enough. It teaches hope to those who have forgotten how to feel it.
This show is a landmark. I don’t know how to tell you how much this is so. I don’t know how to convince you what it is like to know I am standing in front of a show that could change lives – that has changed lives – and ask you to save it. I don’t know how to convince you my life and all the other lives it has touched are worth it. I am all too used to not getting what I ask for, when all I ask is to be allowed continuing access to content that treats people like me as people, instead of as jokes, stereotypes, or sexual objects only. The freedom of knowing Dirk could be gay and not have to “prove” it is huge, and so often neglected in film. It meant – and means – a lot to me to know it, but I want to see it.
I don’t want to keep having to imagine that, one day, minority opinion will be enough. I want you to bring back a show that means so much to my community, because it got right what practically every other show gets wrong: the quality of treating me and people like me to a world in which we’re not targets.
I want a season 3 of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, and well over 100,000 of your viewers have said the same. Can we be enough this time? We’re asking because it matters. Season 2 had three main characters in the LGBTQ community, and season 3 is confirmed to verbalize what has already been said, that the main protagonist is gay, too.
Can I have this? Can my community have this? For a lot of us, this was the show that got our families seeing us as human, and so talking to us again. I cannot stress enough how important it is. I can only hope you listen to me, a fan, and consider giving me and so many others back this beautiful, hopeful world where people who are different will always be safe.
This is so beautifully written and so so true. Dirk Gently is truly so important for outcasts and LGBT+ people because it embraces humanity in all its quirks and oddities and minorities and does not try to put anyone in a box. And I at least need to say goodbye to these characters which made me believe in living life purely as myself, all of myself. I’d like to add the link to the new petition for a TV special, as right now it only has 6,000 signatures and it just isn’t enough. I’m not ready to stop fighting. Because I can’t give this show’s message and impact up.
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