Following the announcement of the hit BBC One/HBO drama’s axing, readers tell us what the show meant to them – from helping them find love to meeting a worldwide community of friends
I waited more than 63 years to see something like Gentleman Jack on TV, having spent most of my lifetime watching shows and movies that rarely had anyone like me in them. In Gentleman Jack, we see both Anne and Ann dealing with many of the same issues, emotions and obstacles that lesbians in our times are still dealing with. There were so many times Anne Lister would make a comment that was an arrow to my heart, because I knew what she was feeling even if I live 200 years later. Getting to know Anne and Ann through the programme, and now through my own reading, has been one of the greatest gifts of my life. Robin, 66, retired, Texas
