User blog comment:JediSpectre117/Jennifer Hepler ???/@comment-2250460-20120225181000/@comment-1691295-20120226115232

Well, 2-13% (according to Wikipedia), but it's almost impossible to get an accurate number since a lot of people would still be afraid to admit it, even to a researcher. That's irrelevant though.

I agree that if a character who wasn't previously established as gay is gay in ME3, then there is a sort of fourth wall breaking going on. To me it wouldn't feel earned or 'legitimate', simply because it's obvious that it was a decision made for ME3. Whether for fan service, or just because they got the guts to portray a character a way that maybe they always intended to.

Whatever the case, I'd hardly call a revelation that a character is gay 'Ruining their personalities'. There's plenty of gay people who you wouldn't know are gay unless they told you, and if someone told me that my perception of their personality wouldn't change at all.

Ultimately though I'm not actually expecting any major 'straight' characters to suddenly be gay. I'd expect that only new characters (whether Vega, Allers or other minor unannounced characters) or existing characters like Jack who have been established has having 'feelings' that way will be the ones that are newly available same-sex romance options.

I think you're blowing things way out of proportion though. The only thing we've heard on the 'gay' front is that there one or more Male/Male romance options in ME3. Nothing about existing characters going gay or anything like that. Frankly all that means to me is that Vega is potentially a Male & Female, or just Male, romance option. And you know what? I couldn't care less, I won't be pursuing it either way.