Except that's exactly the opposite of what Cho and others are saying. The problem here isn't straight white viewers, but rather that these are other cultures (various Asian and African ones) that are even less open to the concept of homosexuality than Western culture.
And also that if a studio makes a gay people both…

To be fair, no one else had their sexual preferences flipped in the Mirror Universe, so why would his? Similarly, he also gets a hot lady in "Shore Leave." On a planet, that makes real whatever you're thinking/fantasizing about.

That's actually a pretty good alternative.