I'm sorry, I really can't keep up with you; you are arguing against things nobody has said. Nobody actually called the agent homophobic, either, and nobody actually need be homophobic for this whole thing to have happened: people just have to think that the broad reading public, or the largest possible audience for books of this kind minus a gay character, is homophobic.
I also doubt that people who used to get books with gay characters published are that relevant. Diane Duane hasn't published anything with overtly gay people in it for quite some time, and the Door Into books are not YA. The Young Wizards books have no overtly, unambiguously gay characters.
Again, nobody is saying that nobody will publish YA books with gay characters. The claim is quite specific: some agents are telling writers that their books can be sold if the writers remove gay characters, or their gayness. SOME agents. Your responses seem to be to a much broader and more general statement that nobody has actually made.
I think "whisper campaign" is a serious mischaracterization, also. If you disagree with Rachel and Sherwood's reasons for not naming the agent, fine, but all this innuendo is unhelpful.
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I also doubt that people who used to get books with gay characters published are that relevant. Diane Duane hasn't published anything with overtly gay people in it for quite some time, and the Door Into books are not YA. The Young Wizards books have no overtly, unambiguously gay characters.
Again, nobody is saying that nobody will publish YA books with gay characters. The claim is quite specific: some agents are telling writers that their books can be sold if the writers remove gay characters, or their gayness. SOME agents. Your responses seem to be to a much broader and more general statement that nobody has actually made.
I think "whisper campaign" is a serious mischaracterization, also. If you disagree with Rachel and Sherwood's reasons for not naming the agent, fine, but all this innuendo is unhelpful.
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