I have friend (who happens to be a YA Lesbian author and knows the authors in question) who was very upset by this. My feeling is that, while yes, there are two sides to every story and the truth of this one is most likely some where between the two sides, that there really aren't enough LGBT characters in YA novels. And given the rash of LGBT teen suicides, that makes this a real and important issue and one that the agents should have been less clueless about.