In this regard, it may be ironic that the conservative or libertarian assimilationists, who have long been both the black sheep among other conventionalists and opponents of the LesBiGay Left, ultimately may achieve their objective of same-sex integration, but largely by means that they only implicitly endorse: devotion to the glories of the private commercial marketplace. As far as the enterprise of LesBiGay liberty and equality is concerned, the commercial lesson for the conventionalists is that the modern commodification culture may drive past the law.

Were the queerfolk to account for the commodified LesBiGay identity, they would acknowledge that however revolutionary queer identity once might have been, it has become increasingly reconfigured as conformist by capitalist entrepreneurial striving. Furthermore, however outlier the LesBiGay identity was in the past, it has become increasingly reconstituted as "normal" by the fetishized fantasies and the mainstreaming myths of the commercial system. All this may point to the emergence of economic class, market power, and commercialized lifestyle as the hallmarks of difference throughout society, rather than queer versus straight sexuality. Moreover, LesBiGays would be assimilated within their respective classes and market sectors in common with heterosexuals. Again, ironically, it is the queerfolk who have introduced class into their intersectional analysis of subordination and who, yet, may not have understood completely how queerness could be co-opted and sold as still another commodity. As far as the cultural project of transformation and liberation is concerned, the commercial lesson for the queerfolk is that, to escape assimilation, they may have to drive faster and faster at the margins, becoming "queerer" than queer.

With such basic and critical driving lessons as these, it may take a pit crew of psychotherapists to diagnose why the legal academy has had a blind spot to the commodification of LesBiGay identity. Venturing into pop psychology, perhaps, one can speculate briefly on a few possible mindsets that might have led to oversight.