Commodification of Queerness

I am doing a project for my journalism class on how the gay characters commodified in the media. These characters are subordinate and are placed on television as an accessory to the heterosexual. This positioning supports the ideal the lgbt people are less than. The essay that I am basing my research from is by Laura Stempal. She compares the show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and the showtime hit drama Queer As Folk. On network TV the queer has to be wrapped up real pretty for all of the straight people, so they are not offended and if perhaps the show is too gay its put on premium cable channels. Well anyway this video cracked me up and proves the point almost perfectly.