User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The House of Hades Official Discussion/@comment-24308873-20131014175259/@comment-7742465-20131014184039

After the Harry Potter series was finished, J.K Rowling confirmed that Dumbledore was gay. In The Mortal Instruments series, Alec was revealed to be gay in the first book. In the Skulduggery Pleasant series, it was hinted in some of the books that China Sorrows was bisexual, which was confirmed by the author about a week ago. These revelations have not had much impact on these successful series, they are all still great books, with good ratings. I fail to see why Percy Jackson would become less popular just because we now know Nico's sexuality. Finding out that Dumbledore was gay did not diminish the series' success, so why should this?