Well, I liked it, anyway.
I don't think it was a gay thing. I think on the surface it was, and it kind of got tied up in the gay pride thing, but it just has a lot of gay
ingredients, if that makes any sense.
I thought Hedwig was a pretty classic plot of "The gradual redemption of a tragic figure for whom everything has gone to shit". In the end, he realized he no longer needed the drag-queen persona and abandoned it, epiphany and whatnot.