

It absolutely tries to do a thing about the “excesses” of the gays, although I will say that the thesis is not that these things are wrong, but that they will provoke the bigots and that could have negative consequences. A sort of reverse pride. Shame?
Either way, whenever a character is shown to be against LGBTQ people for such excesses, they are wrong in the story (Well, except for the TERF, she just gets to say shit). The main character for instance makes a remark about trans people being what draws bigot’s attention, and is immediately shut down for it and later makes a speech to a bigot defending both self ID and being trans/gender noncomforming.




The show is actually about backlash to gender and sexual minorities. The main character is the subject of a hate crime (That’s not a spoiler, that’s shown in the first 10 seconds of the show) and the show is the lead up to that, as we see what leads up to that hate crime. And the thing is, through this we see a lot of criticism of respectability politics. The main character consistently pursues respectability politics in his dealings with bigots, he makes remarks about how modern queers are too out there, and he is shown to be in the wrong for doing so, and when he says that as an older gay man he’s “Paid his dues” and he can just be normal now, he is mocked to his face and told that his very existence as an out gay man is inherently political.
But it is also very obviously written by an older successful cis gay man, and brings with it the associated brainworms.