I believe there really is a Velvet Mafia in Hollyweird and NYC that has been strategically and deliberately portraying homosexuals as more prevalent than their ~1% of the population, more "common man" than their political power and prevalence in the artistic community would indicate, and always in a benign fashion in order to shift popular opinion of the homosexual agenda dramatically over the last 15-20 years. If you were to just use characters on TV, the homosexual percentage of the population has risen from near 0 to somewhere between 5-10% (more if you restrict your viewing to stuff on HGTV, A&E, etc.) over the last 30 years. I'm all for eliminating unreasoned hate but I hate deliberate manipulation ...