 The thing is, I think that piece went further than most pieces written around the time, but a certain kind of ordinary contemptuous homophobia was normal for pretty much all media publication. I mean, there are a handful of outliers, but that's how people reacted to Lance's presence. But there were other people who saw Lance, who he was like a beacon of authenticity and selfhood, including a lot of reality creators like John Murray, who created The Real World.