The John Stewart/John Boehner example is particularly apt, because it's not even uncommon for progressives to perpetuate this, even when they're trying to fight

The John Stewart/John Boehner example is particularly apt, because it's not even uncommon for progressives to perpetuate this, even when they're trying to fight it. To wit, it used to be that there were negative gay stereotypes. In an ideal world we would stop stereotyping particular people as gay or having "gay" behavior. But instead we've just taken some of the negative gay stereotypes and recast them as positive. I have progressive friends that never, _ever_ fail to characterize male intimacy or physical closeness as "gay" for the purposes of showing how OK they are with it. Example, Olympics "gay bobsled": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iAwO7FN15E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iAwO7FN15E People loved this stupid video.