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Originally Posted by eschwartz
If it becomes sufficiently noticeable as to mess up an otherwise-would-have-been-good plot, then of course that becomes a bad story, which many authors are capable of even without excessive use of the diversity hammer. 
Bad stories need no reason for my disapproval other than "it was a bad story full of irrelevancies that ultimately ended up obscuring the actual plot".
Sometimes that is extraordinarily-hyped-up gay characters. Usually it has nothing to do with anyone's preferences.
(Funnily enough, I cannot think of anyone who has ever ruined a story by excessively pushing heterosexuality down the reader's throat...)
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I've certainly read books where the heterosexual protagonist's 'love' life is pushing the plot out of the way. Sometimes there's even the excessive angst over desiring someone(s) that *shouldn't* be desired for whatever reason. But it's true that I've not thought to call it pushing heterosexuality (pushing sex on the other hand)