Only... it really isn't like those things at all, is it?
For one thing, I fail to see how the extravagances of a Gay Patrol are hyper-defensiveness. It's more a case, the lesser part that's making a 'point', of putting It out there regardless of what people think. If it was just a bunch of gays in suits and bowler hats grimly marching up along some streets where the sucker punch? Or the fun, more importantly?