Speaking as someone who used to live in a city that's on that line: yes
Or you can break it down by city or county instead, some states already do it by county. If you know that Columbus is an hour later than Zanesville or that it's an hour earlier than Springfield, will it be disruptive? Sure, but it's the sort of thing people who live on time zone lines get used to. People in Indianapolis go to Chicagoland fairly often despite being in different time zones.
Really what drives me nuts is that it's arbitrarily shifted. Kentucky and Indiana are split when they could just all be central without issue. But hey, at least we aren't doing time zones as badly as Spain
But also, sometimes it isn't a mask, it's just that a person doesn't come off particularly gay. I'm not one of those people by a long shot, my whole style comes off lez as fuck (especially when I femme it up) and IDK how I'd even start to try to come off as less gay, but I've had plenty of friends and mentors who are being exactly themselves you'd only know they're queer because they told you.
Hell it was a thing in my family to joke about how my uncle was the most generically masculine man in the family, meanwhile he'd spent most of his adult life heavily involved in queer community and activism. Meanwhile his husband read as gay from across the room.