Like Julie & Julia but with lots of gay erasure

I don’t get why this author keeps bringing up known or highly suspected gay relationships between literary icons and never acknowledging that they were queer? It’s gotta be deliberate and is terrible gay erasure. I can’t tell if the author is trying to allude to it but is too cowardly to say it outright or if she’s actively trying to rewrite known history. Either way, in the current reality where many are trying to squash LGBTQ voices and also their very existence, this is really gross for me. 

That being said the story outside of the gay erasure was mediocre and kept introducing new conflicts. The hero was a liar who kept lying and then found new ways to lie and the heroine had brains slightly smarter than a bag of rocks.
As happens in so many women’s fiction or contemporary romance (and I don’t know which this one was trying to be), the conflicts were blown way out of proportion, easily resolved and depended very heavily on miscommunication and character stupidity. All of the conflicts kept dropping up and then amounting to nothing made this feel way too long, frustrating and ultimately pointless. 
All this soul searching for Emma to end up exactly where she was. Blah.