I do like GP but have complicated feelings about him, in that he chooses typically female crafts and gets accolades for them while the women who have developed them get forgotten. I do like his art.
All of his TV work is fantastic - really insightful and bucks the trend. Those programmes have had a profound impact on me. He does have a bit of a blind spot about misogyny, but I sometimes wonder if that is a deliberate thing, or whether it is me as a woman thinking 'that's the first question about masculinity I'd want to ask', but it doesn't occur to him as a bloke.
As for him being open about his fetish, I am totally happy with that, because his fetish is pretty harmless and he seems to have a sense of humour about it - like he is parodying his own transvestism to the point of looking like a pantomime dame. If there was anything sneaky or dark or abusive about it, I'd drop him like a bag of cold sick. I like that he is so shameless, not only as a bloke with a fetish, but a bloke who is a bit of a competitive twat, that sort of thing. People who are in touch with who they are and are unapologetic about it are hard not to like.