Outed? Read on. Much of the literature of the era, and previous, and subsequently, needed no "outings", until Elizabethan times. Sexuality, even truly aberrant, in literature, was accepted because literature was an adult venue.

Perhaps the "education of the masses", and, more importantly, the children of the masses, led to a hushing of sexuality, in any form,   indeed, even in the purest, which we now dub "Elizabethan".

Now, don' go quote'n me on lit and histry... I dunno squat. I'm just a good ole boy from Kent County. So, the way I see it is, them there fellahs 'd fuck a snake if they could get enough gravel in ther hands. And they wear tights an all, so, hell, you know. Minds me a that there Prancey fellah, what with all them fancy getups an women a lythin n all an starin at the camera all randy and... scuse me.