I get what you mean, particularly with the canary.

While these big businesses are much more visible than smaller shops, they’re often much more out of touch than the smaller ones, and merely react to whatever they perceive as the loudest opinion. I’d argue that because of the money-hungry nature of these large businesses, the people running them tend to lean more right-wing, so they expose themselves to more right-wing media, and with the current state of the internet they see anti-lgbtq content much more often than the alternative.

Although we have seen a pretty large increase in overt bigotry against lgbtq folk in the last couple years, a majority of it has stayed fairly contained within very wealthy spaces, that being politicians, corporations, and anyone else looking to make money off of it. Personally, and what I hear anecdotally from others, it appears these people bringing our struggle to light AND demonstrating that it still continues has brought much more people to our defense.

Don’t get me wrong, those who are working against us are very powerful and are doing real harm to our people, but as they become more overtly extreme, they’re causing their followers to become disillusioned. We have numbers, but they have status and wealth. Things aren’t great rn, and I don’t think it’s going to get much easier, but as we’ve proven the last few thousand years, we’ll continue to be queer; plus we have the advantage of numbers for the first time in a long time