I would certainly have preferred Snape being gay to the whole Lily-fication of Snape's life that went down in canon. On the other hand, considering how it practically kills Jo to say a single uncritical thing about Snape, I doubt I would have wanted to read her version of gay!Severus. My blood suffered enough boiling during the post-mortem on DH. Poor handling of gay Snape might have given me a stroke.

(Btw, did you get my return email, lo these many days ago, in response to your beta request? Since I haven't heard back, I wasn't sure whether you'd slotted me into the beta roster or not.)