"1) It strikes me that a whole bunch of this thread is a Homestuck fan coming here and talking about how Dirk uniquely and personally resonated with them as a gay person, only to be met with a bunch of people saying Dirk being gay isn't actually all that important based on their own readings which by their natures seem less informed by personal experience. I think this is a fundamentally kind of mean-spirited way Homestuck fans tend to end up talking past each other and a bad idea for discussion."

Just popping in here to say you should avoid making those kinds of assumptions just because people disagree with you.