| Our first introduction to Dirk is via Bro, yes, but the idea that Bro is gay wasn't something that got given any kind of grounding until Dirk is introduced as a character. [...] If Dirk never existed in contrast to Bro, to answer your question, yes, making Bro gay would be homophobic as fuck. But Dirk no longer exists in contrast to Bro; hence yes, it is just outright homophobic that the guy who is singled out by the story as explicitly gay MULTIPLE times gets penned like this.

this is just straight up confusing to me because bro IS dirk and it doesn't erase that the first introduction we have of him is as an abusive man that exposes his child to pornography and while we're at it the first bit of info we have of this precious dirk is jake saying he programmed a robot to molest and assault him everytime he goes out LOL multiple ppl in this thread have told you dirk in the epilogues and postcanon are just stretches of HIS TEXT in homestuck and you're reducing him to being The Untouchable Gay One in a cast where almost every character is queer and equally flawed

and re:davekat being "walked back"? none of those things you mentioned contradicts the epilogues, they never get confirmed as a couple but it's very obvious to everyone else there's something between them and they're purposely very cagey about it because they're coy and it's never outright stated they do anything about it, john straight up in the epilogues says he thought dave and karkat had been together the entire time. i think you're confusing the statement "davekat is canon" to mean "davekat is a couple and they're dating", characters having feelings for eachother but not resolving them/not dating makes them "canon"

and anyway im done responding to this thread because we're walking in circles and several people are just repeating the same things over and over, it's not a productive discussion but i will say what other ppl have said before and you should try to detach this vision you have of dirk as a "The Only Gay Character" and try seeing him as a part of the actual big picture, he's an incredibly fleshed out character and reducing him to his sexuality isn't very charitable to the story that he's a part of