User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-12-'14 — New Assassin's Creed in Victorian London leaked/@comment-25868925-20150301150522/@comment-3046679-20150301172838

It was 2014 Crook, if you don't beat the audience over the head directly with the fact a character is gay, they will not comprehend it. Welcome to 21st century.

Compare to how subtly they did it with Leonardo at the beginning of the series - someone unfamiliar with his life wouldn't pick up on it until the bit from Da Vinci Disappearance in the Pythagorean Temple. And even that was more subtle than this.