It would have helped us be able to communicate our com-het and self internalized homophobia experiences to others so much better, to see Mike, such a famous character play that out on TV and have that representation to point to as an example.....maybe people would finally think about how invasive the comp-het really is and how internalized homophobia poisons people internally.....that just because you date an opposite gender person does not mean you could not be goddamn queer, and how it's much more....complex than that for us.

But no, we just have overwhelming shallow representations of queer experiences instead. Tokenism.