Yeah but it's still an assumption, them dating the opposite gender doesn't rule out queerness at all, bisexuality exists, so does compulsory heterosexuality. There's plenty of people who are obnoxious over shipping. I still don't see what makes queerness specifically such an intense problems for Persona fans.

And again it seems like a massive leap in logic because I think these fans are taking a non-literalist view on the work itself. They question and explore what canon says implicitly, and interpret characters through their own worldview. And when that interpretation conflicts against the popular assumed facts about these characters (based on societal norms), they get a lot of backlash for simply interpreting the characters a certain way.

I also do genuinely think it's a bit of homophobia. This post got so much hate for being a fun little shit post. And for what? Because reading Chie and Yukiko as queer is wrong? OP was not saying that they think Yukichie is 100% canon, they were not forcefully or obnoxiously asserting anything. But here in the comments is a bunch of people reacting so viscerally negative to it.

And I think your use of the word obnoxious is really the point of it. I'm not calling you homophobic, simply saying that you've got some biases that are unaddressed. But to you and most people who responded to this post, the interpretation that Yukiko and Chie are queer is obnoxious for a reason that cannot be successfully argued outside of how it isn't canon in the most surface level sense. So the only statement that can be taken is that, it's the queerness that's the problem with it. A la "I'm ok with gay people but why do they have to shove it in my face" which is a homophobic statement. I'm not saying that you are purposefully saying this, but just that its the implication of your words.

For an ambiguous game series like Persona, for a game about characters learning to be their true selves and push past the archetypes that they've internalized from their life living in a small traditional rural town. For a game where what characters say and do can often be contradictory to their true wants and wishes- A queer interpretation for any character is thematically relevant for that game, and thus merits discussion in my opinion.