This was interesting to read. The article's garnered some strong reactions, but I haven't run across any this lengthy or thoughtful. It's unfortunate that I seem to have garnered some ill will, because I think we probably agree on a lot. I do have some of course have some issues with what you say. First, you say that because the videos were not made for straight people, it's invalid to talk about how they might be functioning among straight people. The videos have spread virally and I think they really do play to a large and diverse audience, and one of my major interests in the piece was thinking about what that might mean. As I say in the article, I think the videos are a good thing, it's just their viral spread among a lot of non-LGBT people that I find possibly problematic. I was remarking on a phenomenon I'd observed, and participated in, and was critical of - my evidence for the existence of said phenomenon can only be anecdotal, since I don't run a large research university and haven't seen any hard statistics saying who watches these videos. But I'm pretty sure they found a large audience outside the LGBT community. If someone wrote an article about yuppies wearing Che Guevera T-shirts, it doesn't necessarily makes sense to say, "Oh, of course, talking about yuppies instead of Latin American revolutionaries! Che didn't pose in that photo for them! It's not for them!" Isn't that sort of the issue being discussed? As regards the Pixar video, I would point out that I was pretty careful with my language; I said it can seem opportunistic when corporations and politicians make these videos, and I think it can. That the makers can seem like opportunists doesn't prevent the videos from helping young people or even being moving, it just, I think, makes them complicated documents. And I would it argue that it can be worthwhile to tease out possible contradictions in our cultural objects. Happy that my vocabulary apparently disqualifies me from being a covert Republican agent, though voicing the suspicion doesn't highly recommend me (nor do your ad hominems).