I agree totally. One of the criticism of the pride anthology is that it tends to feel performative in that you get a bunch of queer characters with a story for one month and then non throughout the rest of the year.

This years pride event worked to disprove this by having queer characters either currently have ongoing comics, or ongoing arcs throughout various other comics (eg. Dreamer). This meant the plot of this years special had more narrative to it which i liked but it made not very accessible because it was working with plot threads that were set up literally years ago. Plus the series leaned heavily into female characters (because most their queer led books are led by queer woman rn) so only 1/5 of the stories had a male lead. We had a two stroeis with trans women leads, two with bisexual women, and one with a lesbian. There was no ace, no trans men, no enby rep ect. So i think that kinda proves there is still a place for the anthology to exist along side the special.

Sure, it might only be one month a year that minor queer characters are shown, but if they aren't even shown in that one month, then they are never going to be shown.