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Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus children’s series introduces gay character

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The Heroes of Olympus (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The fourth installment of the popular young teen literature series   The Heroes of Olympus   features a protagonist coming out as homosexual. Rick Riordan’s   House of Hades   is part of the mythological fantasy adventure series that forms a sequel to the   Percy Jackson & the Olympians   series. According to online reviews , the 2013 book, which remains popular among children and in schools, is riddled with crude humor . Readers   learn   in   House of Hades   that Nico , a 14-year-old demigod, identifies himself as gay and has romantic feelings for another male character. Pro-LGBT online reviews   hail Nico as a “positive representation of a gay person in fiction,” “one of the most central, important and powerful heroes in the stories,” and “one of the most popular characters among readers.” Fan sites   indicate   he later enters a relationship with anothe...