The thesis wasn't particularly radical. Drawn from the pages of C.S. Lewis' 1960 book "The Four Loves," an exploration of the four expressions of love according to the Greek language, I began a video essay on the alleged homosexuality of "Frog and Toad" by channeling Lewis: "Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend."

Posted in July 2025, the video titled "Friendship Is Not Gay, Actually" for the GeekyStoics YouTube channel was written in the wake of Pride Month and to respond to the children's classic by Arnold Lobel, "Frog and Toad," which appears on LGBTQ reading lists — cited as "queer" literature. If you grew up reading these books, you might balk at The New Yorker's suggestion that they were always "an amphibious celebration of same-sex love," when other words exist to describe what these characters were up to, namely: friendship.