It probably has been done to death. However, that's pretty much what I'm doing right now myself, and I couldn't care less how many times it's...
I feel it may depend on your reader and their attitude to homosexuality, which will have been informed by events and attitudes in their lives....
At least 1,000 words per day. It doesn't matter to me whether they're for the same chapter or split across different chapters - or even different...
Separate names with a comma.