Its insidious. I found this article on how to become a famous photographer and it became apparent that to become a famous photographer requires being gay, hanging around with gay people, and taking bad gay photos.
However I do find it interesting that many of the responses seem to push back against the ideology based world of critics who care little about quality and ideology is all.
http://www.vice.com/read/how-to-become-world-107-guide_student_uk09
Thank God, Van Gogh and DaVinci don’t have to face today’s critics.
Well,it does. At least with regard to magazines where hiring decisions are based on schmoozing with the gay men who make the hiring decisions.