It's OK to be Takei in YA

I feel like I ought to link to the current big YA brouhaha: Agent asks authors to "straighten" main character.

This is not the first time I've heard of something like this happening, and it's appalling, to be sure.

I just want to add my data point to the debate, however: my book, in all its incarnations, has always had gay characters in it. There was even a transsexual in one version (who sadly is no more, not for being transsexual but because I was having to engage in painful, artificial...