Star Trek Lower Decks is NOT CANON (neither is Rey, or anything after Terminator 2)
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Neither of them were canon gay but the degenerate actor who played Garak did always say he tried to play up Garak's attraction to Bashir because he wanted him to be gay or bisexual.
You mean like how the Wachowski brothers said The Matrix was always an allegory for being a tranny even though it obviously wasn't? Hollywood golems will say whatever they're told to say.
No it's definitely real. Garak comes off like a genuine sexual predator in his first few appearances. He was actually trying to play him as a flaming homo, which he evidently saw as monsters, and he still thought it was a good thing.
He said that in retrospect. There's nothing contemporary that indicates that's what he was doing.
It's most notable in the pilot after which he was told to tone it down.
Yeah, the actor who plays Garak says on several occasions that he played the character as having an attraction to Bashir. So the people getting gay vibes aren’t off base.
I never saw it but growing up I rarely saw anything gay related and my only exposure to lgbt was knowing it existed. Personally never saw them as anything but friends. Haven’t heard his interviews like you have but no surprise he would say this.
I saw his relationship with Bashir as entirely non-sexual, but assumed Garak himself had grown to position himself as sexually ambiguous for espionage reasons. I don't think Garak would have had a sexual relationship with a non Cardassian of either gender.
Perhaps but it's ultimately up to the writers to dictate what is canon or more specifically, it's up to whoever is paying the writers. Not the actors and actresses so his opinion as an actor means nothing. Like you pointed out, his opinion should be taken with less than a grain of salt.