Homophobia and humor

It's really easy to make any reference to gays by straight men turn into jocular, friendly disgust. "I'm comfortable enough with homosexuality to joke about it, but being involved with it myself is utterly repulsive!" Some humor sites do a great job of showing us what humor without homophobia would look like: The Onion and Uhh Yeah Dude. The Onion video advances a pro-gay perspective because of the ubiquity of the response that they're viciously satirizing: "I'm comfortable with homosexuality, but I don't want my kid to be gay!" Uhh Yeah Dude is going after an easy target: men seeking anonymous gay sex. While cruising is on the fringes even of gay culture, the lack of flamboyancy or exaggerated enthusiasm is admirable on the part of UYD.

edit: In retrospect, UYD is at least biphobic (calling John Mayer's admission of bisexual interests "gross") and transphobic (asserting that children of the transcouple will be undoubtedly psychologically unbalanced). I was so happy that they avoided such a common pitfall (that of feigned homosexual interests or proclivities) that I had overlooked their overall attitude. Still funny guys, still worth listening to, but politically, they suck.