@pmmeurcatpics @lanodan @a1ba
Are you really trying to argue that the LGBT community, or however you want to call it, doesn't have political influence? Were we hallucinating years upon years of multinational corporations putting rainbow flags on Twitter? Or the useless rainbow road crossings? Or the yearly Pride parades, that have become useless at this point? This is all politics my friend.

There are multiple social activist areas that come with their own political power. You have the environmentalists, you have the PETA types, you have the LGBT crowd, any many more.

And all of these areas of activism have a bunch of NGOs, that get funding from governments. From the American government, from the EU. Sometimes it's from the central government (federally in the case of US), sometimes it goes down at the local level.
And they use the money they get for their activism. Sometimes they use the money for advertisement to get a million people to sign an EU petition, and other times they use the money to support a politician that is more favorable for their cause. In which case, it works closer to money laundering, cause they're helping a politician that is more likely to help them get funding.

This is what the real world of NGOs and activism is like. And there's more money flowing in these spaces than people realize. Money that they ultimately get for free. That they don't work for. So maybe your average lesbian isn't riding a yacht, but the NGOs could definitely buy some if they wanted to.

The hilarious part of all of this, is that I'm not even arguing against the LGBT lobby or activism. I'm just honest enough to acknowledge that this is how things work, and that this is how you manage to get things done. I'm not anti-LGBT people.
But I can understand that their community has something gamers don't, and that we won't get things done, because we don't have these resources that other activist groups do.