It’s been a while, but I felt like the episode poked fun at the stereotype of the clownishly flamboyant gay man and the belief that gay = fashionable. I think Queer Eye was big around that time and sort of pushed that idea, too. So yeah, not really making fun of gay people as much as making fun of popular culture and the sort of “gay chasers”, I guess.
It’s been a while, but I felt like the episode poked fun at the stereotype of the clownishly flamboyant gay man and the belief that gay = fashionable. I think Queer Eye was big around that time and sort of pushed that idea, too. So yeah, not really making fun of gay people as much as making fun of popular culture and the sort of “gay chasers”, I guess.
Maybe I’m misremembering, but i hope not.
I think both of your views are pretty on point. I just wanted to point out that they did use (feigned?) queerness as a plot point.
I, unfortunately, remember when all of my peers called things they thought were stupid g**. And everyone they didn’t like were f*gs.
We’ve got a long way to go, but we’ve made progress.