/lit/ - Literature

>complete my magnum opus
>it's highly autobiographical and confessional, but that's not obvious because the setting is historical
>finally get an agent
>this week she calls me up tells me: "It's really clear that Charles (literally me) is gay, and I think this piece would be a lot more salable if you had the courage to acknowledge that in the text."
This raises a lot of personal and professional questions. I'm not gay, bros, I was just raised in a theatrical home (my parents were a comic baritone and a mezzo in one of the old Gilbert and Sullivan rep companies). What now? Do I Gaymaxx to achieve publication?