Thanks to a fantastic volunteer effort by Cliff Kotnik and David Benn, we now have a plugin availble for VStar which can be used to view and plot data on variable stars directly from the Gaia website (DR 2).
To learm more about it, please see Cliff's forum post:
https://www.aavso.org/gaia-plugin-now-available-vstar
There is also documentaion on how to use this plugin (and many others) on the VStar Plugin Library webpage:
https://www.aavso.org/vstar-plugin-library#GAIA
We hope you will find this useful!