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When Harry Potter thor JK Rowlg announced that venerable wizard Alb Dumbledore was gay, nobody was more shocked than the fans. But now they're wrg stori about Alb gog where the novels never permted.

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For sr of movie fans, Daniel Radcliffe will always be Harry Potter. But while the 24-year-old actor has nothg but good memori of his years as the boy wizard, his latt role as Beat poet Allen Gsberg "Kill Your Darlgs" plac him a universe far, far away om one thg, Gsberg (thor of "Howl" and other works) was gay, and at one pot the film, there is a love * gay potter *

Rowlg has nfirmed that some of the characters the "Harry Potter" universe are gay. Some fans, however, are perturbed that the characters don't actually intify as gay the books or movi. "But as happens any relatnship, gay or straight or whatever label we want to put on , one never knows really what the other person is feelg.

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Rowlg prevly revealed Dumbledore was gay and even rpond to a fan who tweeted they uldn't "see" the headmaster of Hogwarts as homosexual. "Maybe bee gay people jt look like... Many wish the characters actually intified as gay the books and movi Rowlg created, not jt her md.

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’s performative activism that allows her to prent herself as progrsive while keepg her films ‘fay iendly’ for the bigots that would undoubtedly kick off at the prence of a gay character— lra (@lraw97_) March 17, 2019.

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"Harry Potter" fans who intify as queer are at a breakg pot when to J.K. Rowlg and David Yat's ments about Alb Dumbledore beg gay. * gay potter *

But while the 24-year-old actor has nothg but good memori of his years as the boy wizard, his latt role as Beat poet Allen Gsberg "Kill Your Darlgs" plac him a universe far, far away om one thg, Gsberg (thor of "Howl" and other works) was gay, and at one pot the film, there is a loveSept.

But while the 24-year-old actor has nothg but good memori of his years as the boy wizard, his latt role as Beat poet Allen Gsberg "Kill Your Darlgs" plac him a universe far, far away om one thg, Gsberg (thor of "Howl" and other works) was gay, and at one pot the film, there is a love scene. Yet, once was revealed at Rad Cy Mic Hall, that Dumbledore was fact gay, ma more sense that perhaps McGonagall was gay as well.

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While Dra and Harry have often been embraced fanfictn as a gay uple, Alb and Srpi act much more like a uple on the stage than their father's ever did. Rowlg said she always "thought of Dumbledore as gay" after the fal book me out.

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10 years later, Dumbledore is a character the "Fantastic Beasts" movie fans are at a breakg pot when to the perceived refal of puttg an overtly gay versn of Dumbledore on screen.

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Director David Yat told Entertament Weekly that "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Fd Them: The Crim of Grlwald" would not make "explicly" clear Dumbledore is gay, the fandom reacted strongly (and mostly negatively). "Not explicly, " Yat told Entertament Weekly, referencg whether the movie will clearly show Dumbledore as gay. We spoke primarily wh fans who intify as gay or bisexual, and who had been immersed the "Harry Potter" muny for anywhere between 10 to 20 Rowlg first troduced Dumbledore's sexualy to the "Harry Potter" nonIn orr to unrstand the current wave of backlash, 's important to remember why Dumbledore's sexualy is a topic of discsn at all.

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Wh Rowlg's origal seven "Harry Potter" books, there is no character who intifi as gay, bisexual, transgenr, or anywhere on the spectm of LGBTQ+.

But 2007, several months after "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (the fal book of the seri) was published, Rowlg attend a Q&A at Carnegie Hall, where she revealed that Dumbledore was gay. "My tthful answer to you … I always thought of Dumbledore as gay, " Rowlg replied, acrdg to "Harry Potter" news se The Leaky Cldron. I had to wre a ltle note the marg and sli along to the scriptwrer, 'Dumbledore's gay!

Why "Harry Potter" fans hoped Dumbledore beg gay would be part of the "Fantastic Beasts" sequelWhen Elisabeth Joffe, a longtime "Harry Potter" fan who intifi as queer, saw the first "Fantastic Beasts" movie when premiered last year. "I'm not lookg for a gay rom- out of the 'Fantastic Beasts' seri, " Joffe said. "Harry Potter" followers who intify anywhere on the LGBTQ+ spectm have spent a knowg one of the most proment characters the seri is gay, but have yet to see a sgle ncrete piece of fictn reflectg this simple fact.

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