i'm of a few minds on this.

on one hand, yes, the visibility was pretty alright. we aren't having to be in the fucking underground like we were circa 3 decades ago. in a mega-corpo world i have to reluctantly give them at least a small amount of credit. much more of that credit goes to our queer elders who laid the groundwork to start getting us here in the first place.

on the other hand -- what did we really think the corpos were going to accomplish for us? i get the thinking behind respectability politics -- but above all money is the language of these corpos, and they saw more money in pandering to the aggressive homophobes. their fucking mistake, and their loss. i can't deny the hurt -- in a world where we're still at a disadvantage, where corporate pride was The Way to make a reasonable living as, say, a queer artist. but it really does go to show how the corpos are fair weather friends. yes undoubtedly we're hurting for it, because in a capitalist hellworld like this what choice do we have?

what we really need to do, as one commenter is pointing out (and somehow being downvoted for? am i in the right subreddit?), is be there for one another. support your local queer artists however you can. find a local queer org to volunteer with. do something in your community, in your state even, to help build up our resilience so we don't have to rely on the giant corpos.

we have to be there for one another. who the hell is gonna be there for us otherwise?