Given your keen eye for the end of gay culture, I’m surprised you didn’t flag this passage from the article:

It's kind of sad, but many gay people are as close-minded about sports as some high-profile athletes are close-minded about homosexuality ... Many gay people feel the need to compartmentalize people who aren't like them. So if you're politically conservative or you like sports, many gay people try to push you to the far corners of the community. They felt tormented by sports as children, so it's payback time now that they're adults.

I was drawn to this quote because it explains a lot of the attitudes I’m up against trying to sell what often feels like the majority of my gay friends on Boxer’s, one of the bars reviewed in the article.  I assume many folks have similar issues in other gay sports bars in other marketplaces. If often seems that what sustains "gay culture" - and what is even implicit in your countdown towards the end of it - is this generally inchoate sense that out there resides some form of gay behavior more irreducibly "authentic" and less affected than other forms.