Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic.
I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.
There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in general. And some people, the press just doesn't care about at all.