Just one thought on #YesGayYA

If you missed the background, see Cleo's post here. Short version: YA authors trying to find an agent for their novel say an agency asked them to cut a gay character or remove all reference to his sexuality, agency rep says the claims are untrue and the changes they requested had nothing to do with his being gay (although AFAICT they would still have coincidentally resulted in erasing his gay-ness).

From there it's turned into a matter of one person's word against another, and I have to wonder why. It seems to me that there's a really simple way to settle this. If I was working for the agency in question, and I knew the allegations to be untrue, the rebuttal I'd want to give is:

"Look at all these books we have represented that DO have LGBT characters in them!"

Assuming, of course, that such books exist.