The problem is, it seems to me, that they assume the pedestrian, cyclist and prostitute don't have political and/or economic power. It's part of the class struggle. It is assumed that gays are found more often among the affluent classes. Gays can punish a corporation by not buying their stuff.
In other words, there's nothing "democratic" about the whole affair but rather elitist. We know full well the upper classes are fully corrupt. They didn't give away anything. They want everybody to be married and then divorced. That's more business for the system. The lawyers have more work, etc.
Now think about this for a minute. You are totally worthless as a pedestrian/cyclist until... until you have an accident. That's when the lawyer, the doctor, if not the undertaker, profit from your disgrace. You are worth thousands of dollars and the vultures eat as well!
Those are things that happen in the CAPITALIST JUNGLE that have little to do with democracy. Let's call things by their name.
Notice the guys in lycra suits are not proles, but rather part of the elites, and that explains the poor solidarity we, the practical cyclists, receive from them. To empower people to ride bicycle with a purpose --shopping or saving a car trip-- is the best thing that can happen to the human race since the invention of the wheel.
This is a practical cyclist, and they can be middle class as well.
http://bc.bizzfinder.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/450px/Velorbis%20Student%20%20Black%20012_0.jpg
By the way, they do make a difference between a prostitute and a "call girl." That should give you a hint of the type of discrimination we are facing.
We are the monkeys of the jungle.