There just seems to be a weirdo Victorian morality complex surrounding Sam’s public persona that just doesn’t exist from those same people when it comes to straight culture.
Sam wears an outfit showing a skin (or, in the case of the BRIT Awards, not showing any skin at all) and there are accusations of immorality, mental illness, moral degradation, a call for the return of strict cultural norms, “won’t someone thing of the children!” etc.
But Beyoncé wears something skimpier on her latest album cover? Nothing.
Diane Keaton spends years wearing suits and ties? Nothing.
The Loose Women have innuendo-laden conversations about their sex lives on pre-watershed television? Nothing.
Some people live in a world where they think it’s OK for straight people to be as raunchy or as subversive as they like, but gay people shouldn’t be afforded the same liberties.
They realise that it is no longer acceptable to say “I find the expression of queer sexuality uncomfortable” in the year 2023, so they mask their prejudices with all these other excuses.