actors love to make their characters subtextually gay not just because they’re a little gay themselves though that often is the case but rather because having a secret is like energy drink to acting, and being gay is the easiest most obvious secret. whenever you’re unsure of your character’s motivations consider: maybe they are gay? see where that takes you. should be pretty far
And then we have Andrew Robinson who, when given a character full of secrets decided on day one that he'll make one thing fucking obvious, and that was that Garak is gay.