Around the time Pansy Division began, mainstream acceptance of gay people was a goal we were working for. We’ve come so far. We’re no longer pariahs, at least in Western countries except in the eyes of an extreme and dwindling few. That means we’re ripe for commercialism like anything else. Example: shoes being marketed as . This is a major WTF??? In the time since this article appeared, their product seems to have flopped commercially.