A Viral State - Rejection

I’m not even sure what this means. Do they only sign LGBT writers? Or do my characters need to be LGBT?

I’m not sure what happened to the US publishing industry, but it seems that genres and writing are no longer the necessary qualifications anymore. You need to be gay, or a minority, or non-white, or raised by handicapped parents, or something to “set you apart.” I understand the woke culture and the need to give voices to those who have long been marginalized, but I’ll always take the side of good writing and interesting stories over who wrote them. I don’t care whose name is on the cover of a novel so long as it’s enjoyable to read. Sadly, I think marketing machines have adopted the diversity angle and straight, white, male authors are no longer what the industry is looking for.

This isn’t every agent, nor every agency or publisher, but after hunting for agents, i can assure you that there are a lot of agents with a checklist for the writers themselves, followed by the genres they want.