I have invented the term "collaborative clusterfuck" elsewhere for this type of situation. Pretty much everybody is behaving relatively rationally, perhaps a bit conservatively, but of course people's livelihoods are on the line. Or, possibly, there's a rhinocerous in the corner that nobody is bringing up. (In this exact case, the two authors who started this with their public statement are NOT behaving a bit conservatively, they're pushing fairly hard for their (and my) preferred outcome, at some risk to their careers. But I'll bet quite a few other authors have accepted some pressure against gay YA protags.)

It's hard to know where to start, and pretty much everybody so far seems to have either some rationality, or at least plausible deniability (lots of the questions are hypotheticals on which reasonable people can differ). Unless there really IS a rhinocerous, there's nobody who can solve the problem (no single actor). General raising of consciousness is probably useful, if among the most wearing things to work at.