'Fantastic Beasts' director: Dumbledore 'not explicly' gay sequel | Mashable

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• SO, HOW GAY IS ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ EXACTLY?
• REFERENC TO A GAY RELATNSHIP THE NEW 'FANTASTIC BEASTS' MOVIE HAVE BEEN CUT FOR S RELEASE CHA
• FANTASTIC BEASTS MISSED THE BOAT ON EMBRACG GAY REPRENTATN
• FANTASTIC BEASTS DIRECTOR: DUMBLEDORE WILL HAVE 'SENSUAL' GAY SCEN
• 'FANTASTIC BEASTS 3' GAY DIALOGUE REMOVED CHA
• THE THIRD 'FANTASTIC BEASTS' MOVIE FALLY ADDRS DUMBLEDORE'S SEXUALY ONT AND CENTER — NEARLY 15 YEARS AFTER J.K. ROWLG FIRST REVEALED HE'S GAY
• J.K. ROWLG, STOP QUEERBAG: WE’RE READY FOR GAY DUMBLEDORE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS’ — OPN
• FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD AND DUMBLEDORE’S VEXG SEXUALYAS EXPECTED, THE FILM ALLUS TO DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S ROMANTIC PAST THROUGH HEAVY-HAND IMPLITN.BY LRA BRADLEYNOVEMBER 15, 2018COURTY OF WARNER BROS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS FOR FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD.OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, PROPERTI ACROSS JT ABOUT EVERY GENRE OF FILM AND TELEVISN HAVE BEEN LLED OUT FOR DMMG UP TERT BY TOUTG THE PRENCE OF QUEER OR QUEER-D CHARACTERS, ONLY TO WHIFF THE PROJECTS THEMSELV BY ONLY NODDG VAGUELY TOWARD THE SEXUALI OF THOSE CHARACTERS—AND RENRG THEM VIRTUALLY IRRELEVANT. THE TREND MAY HAVE REACHED S ZENH WHEN BILL CONDON, WHO DIRECTED THE 2017 LIVE-ACTN VERSN OF BETY AND THE BEAST, HYPED THE MOVIE BY SAYG A PRE-RELEASE TERVIEW THAT WOULD CLU AN “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT”—WHICH END UP BEG A BRIEF SCENE WHICH JOSH GAD DANCED WH ANOTHER MAN.MANY A NIZEN OF HARRY POTTERDOM HAD HIGHER HOP FOR THIS WEEK’S FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD. THE ENSEMBLE FILM VOLV A CHARACTER, ALB DUMBLEDORE, WHOM POTTER VENTOR J.K. ROWLG CLARED TO BE GAY, RIGHT AFTER WRAPPG THE SEVEN-BOOK SERI. (IT WAS ONLY THE FIRST OF MANY EX POST FACTO EDS AND ADDNS SHE WOULD EVENTUALLY MAKE TO HER MEGA-POPULAR ANCHISE.) EVEN AFTER NEWS BROKE THAT DUMBLEDORE AND HIS FORMER LOVER, GELLERT GRLWALD, WOULD NOT BE “EXPLICLY” GAY THE FILM, A QUTN HAS LGERED ABOUT HOW, EXACTLY, THE MOVIE WOULD ADDRS THE SUBJECT.DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY NEVER PLAYED AN EXPLIC ROLE THE BOOK SERI, EHER—BUT THE FANTASTIC BEASTS ANCHISE ST S GAZE TOWARD DUMBLEDORE AND HIS OLD FLAME GRLWALD’S PAST, GIVG ROWLG (WHO WR THE SCRIPTS FOR THE FANTASTIC BEASTS FILMS) AND DIRECTOR DAVID YAT A CHANCE TO RPORATE THAT FOOTNOTE TO THIS FICTNAL WORLD’S NON. BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT THE FILM SELF WOUND UP DOG. THROUGHOUT THE CRIM OF GRLWALD, DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S BOND IS SCRIBED, SO MANY WORDS, AS “LIKE BROTHERS, ONLY CLOSER”—ALL LONGG LOOKS AND BLOOD PACTS, LI OF ANY REAL ROMANCE.THOUGH THE SEND FANTASTIC BEASTS MOVIE HAS TIME FOR MULTIPLE CHARACTERS AND SUBPLOTS—TOO MANY, FACT!—THERE ARE ONLY A FEW FLEETG MOMENTS WHICH THE FILM DIRECTLY ADDRS DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S PAST. THE FIRST AS AN AUROR TRI TO NVCE DUMBLEDORE TO HELP TAKE GRLWALD DOWN. WHEN DUMBLEDORE EXPRS RELUCTANCE, THE OFFICER ASKS IF “THIS” IS THE REASON—STG A SPELL THAT SHOWS A SHADOWY YOUNG DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD LOOKG AT ONE ANOTHER. THE TWO WERE LIKE BROTHERS, HE SAYS. DUMBLEDORE’S REPLY? “WE WERE CLOSER THAN BROTHERS.” IN ANOTHER, LATER FLASHBACK, THE TWO ARE SHOWN EXECUTG A BLOOD PACT— LI OF KISSG OR SHOWG ANY OTHER SORT OF OUTWARD AFFECTN. IN PERHAPS THE MOST EXPLIC MOMENT THE ENTIRE FILM, DUMBLEDORE SE GRLWALD’S IMAGE THE MIRROR OF ERISED. AS DUMBLEDORE WOULD LATER TELL HARRY POTTER, THE MIRROR “SHOWS NOTHG MORE OR LS THEN THE EPT AND MOST SPERATE SIR OF ONE’S HEART.”THIS RELIANCE ON IMPLITN IS TRATG, PERHAPS, BUT UNRSTANDABLE; GIANT, FAY-IENDLY TENTPOLE FILMS DON’T TEND TO GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO RPORATE NTENT THAT CERTA MOGRAPHICS MIGHT FD NTROVERSIAL. THE WORST PART, THOUGH, IS THAT THE FILM TRI TO HAVE S KE AND EAT TOO. IT THROWS FANS A FEW BON BY ALLUDG TO DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S RELATNSHIP, YET DUMBLEDORE SEEMS UNWILLG OR UNABLE TO ADM THAT SAID RELATNSHIP WAS ROMANTIC. EVEN MORE PUZZLGLY, DUMBLEDORE NEVER EXPLAS WHY HE N’T BE HONT ABOUT THAT ASPECT OF HIS BOND WH GRLWALD.ONE HAS TO ASSUME THAT HOMOPHOBIA RAN RAMPANT THE WIZARDG WORLD THE 1920S, JT AS DID THE HUMAN WORLD—BUT THE NCEPT OF ANTI-GAY SENTIMENT IS AS VAGUE THE FILM AS THE NCEPT OF HOMOSEXUALY. IT’S REMISCENT OF LAST YEAR’S THE GREATT SHOWMAN, ANOTHER PERD PIECE THAT NSISTENTLY ALLUS TO THE DARK FORC KEEPG ZENDAYA’S CHARACTER AND ZAC EON’S CHARACTER APART WHOUT EVER DIRECTLY MENTNG RACISM. AS A RULT, THE RELATNSHIP RGS HOLLOW—LIKE A PLOT VICE OR A NARRATIVE NOVELTY SERTED PURELY SO THE FILM ULD CHECK OFF A BOX THE LEAST OFFENSIVE WAY.IT’S EASY TO IMAGE HOW THIS STORY LE ULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED DIFFERENTLY. EVEN ONE MORE WELL-PLACED FLASHBACK WOULD HAVE MA ALL THE DIFFERENCE—AND IF HAD FOCED ON GRLWALD, ULD EVEN HAVE ADD MUCH-NEED DIMENSN TO A CHARACTER WHO FEELS TOO MUCH LIKE A WHE-HAIRED VOLMORT RETREAD. AND WHILE N MAKE SENSE FOR CHARACTERS HISTORIL FICTN TO LIVE SI THE CLOSET, WOULD BE NICE TO AT LEAST SEE THEIR OPPRSN ACKNOWLEDGED. IF DUMBLEDORE HAD TO SUPPRS THIS PART OF HIS LIFE FOR S, ONE WOULD THK THAT WOULD PROVI SOME TERTG AVENU ON WHICH THE FILM ULD TRAVEL. BUT SEEMS FANTASTIC BEASTS WOULD RATHER EXPLORE CHARACTER VELOPMENT THROUGH AN EXPLIBLE ALTERNATIVE: MAKG EZRA MILLER DUMBLEDORE’S LONG-LOST SECRET BROTHER STEAD.MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONLRA BRADLEY
• DUMBLEDORE GRLWALD GAY RELATNSHIP NFIRMED FANTASTIC BEASTS 3
• EZRA MILLER REVEALS HOW DUMBLEDORE IS 'EXPLICLY GAY' 'FANTASTIC BEASTS 2'
• FANTASTIC BEASTS 2'S FEAR OF A GAY DUMBLEDORE IS STUPID
• "FANTASTIC BEASTS 3" CENSORS GAY STORYLE FOR CHE RELEASE

SO, HOW GAY IS ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ EXACTLY?

Rowlg revealed Dumbledore is gay, "Harry Potter" fans fally saw that backstory play out onscreen the third prequel spoff "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. That he's gay??? "I love so much how they're handlg Dumbledore beg gay...

" "I always saw Dumbledore as gay, " Rowlg said rponse to a fan qutn about Dumbledore's love life.

Rowlg first clared that Alb Dumbledore is gay, the new Fantastic Beasts movie has fally ma non.

REFERENC TO A GAY RELATNSHIP THE NEW 'FANTASTIC BEASTS' MOVIE HAVE BEEN CUT FOR S RELEASE CHA

The Harry Potter thor first ma headl 2007 when she revealed that she "always thought of Dumbledore as gay, " speakg to fans at a post-publitn event for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. On one hand, 's surprisgly rehg to see a mastream tentpole movie wh a nonilly gay tle character — pecially one who acknowledg his sexualy on screen. And nsirg the tle of the film — which refers to some hidn mysteri the past of Hogwarts headmaster and future Harry Potter mentor Alb Dumbledore (Ju Law) — there might be one qutn loomg over this latt “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Fd Them” film: jt how gay is ?

Followg the publitn of the fal “Harry Potter” novel, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, ” 2007, Rowlg revealed that Dumbledore was gay and that his prr relatnship wh famed evil wizard Grlwald (now played by Mads Mikkelsen), was ed romantic. But now, two movi and wh a much more sympathetic Grlwald, they fally n properly explore Dumbledore’s romantic entanglement wh a very mad rultg film is perhaps gayer than you were expectg, but not nearly as gay as should be. ) And that’s about as emotnally naked (and gay) as the movie are a uple more passg referenc to their relatnship sprkled throughout the very long film.

FANTASTIC BEASTS MISSED THE BOAT ON EMBRACG GAY REPRENTATN

Dumbledore has fally said he's gay out loud.It's been a long, long time g, but there's fally a textually gay moment a Harry Potter movie. "Bee I was love wh you," Dumbledore says.There you have , the gay Harry Potter moment we've been wag 15 years for.\u201cDumbledore nfs his love for Grlwald new #SecretsOfDumbledore TV spot\u201d — Culture Crave \ud83c\udf7f (@Culture Crave \ud83c\udf7f).

Rowlg ma que the motn when she clared that Dumbledore was gay, spe there not really beg anythg the books to dite that. The only thg that uld really be poted to was his allud-to, once-close relatnship wh the evil wizard Grlwald.It was seen by some as a great moment for gay reprentatn, but for others, seemed like a p-out - a way to say your book has gay reprentatn whout actually havg anythg gay happen or mentned the text self. Now, we're seeg the culmatn of that.Harry Potter was, at one time one, of the biggt media anchis on earth, and havg a ma character volly exprs romantic feelgs for a character of the same sex should be a huge al...but unfortunately, the anchise has very few queer fans left and even ls queer goodwill.Not only are fans disappoted by the lack of any textual queerns any of the books, but Rowlg has also ma herself to an enemy of the LGBTQ+ muny by beg a steadfast and vol TERF over the last several years, spewg anti-trans hate whenever she n.For those still terted seeg Dumbledore and Grlwald's gay adventur, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore premier theaters April 15.RELATED | Dumbledore and Grlwald Were Totally Havg Sex, J.K.

FANTASTIC BEASTS DIRECTOR: DUMBLEDORE WILL HAVE 'SENSUAL' GAY SCEN

This will be the first mastream fay blockbter wh a gay character a lead role, not long after Star Trek Beyond was nsired groundbreakg for givg Sulu a hband wh about 30 sends of thanks to Grlwald’s pictn Fantastic Beasts, this news is more plited than seems. Although Dumbledore’s sexualy was ambiguo the Harry Potter books, Rowlg later nfirmed that he’s gay, and that he fell love wh the dark wizard Gellert Grlwald when both were their late teens. Much of his screentime is dited to a pellg yet disturbg relatnship wh Crence Barebone (Ezra Miller), a young outst whom he celly manipulat durg scen wh an obv gay the Auror Percival Grav (Grlwald disguise), Col Farrell giv one of the bt performanc the movie.

Grlwald arguably follows Hollywood’s tradn of queer-d villas, a subtly homophobic tradn that is pecially prevalent children’s, the ntext of what we already know about Grlwald and Dumbledore, Grlwald is eher a creepy, abive queer character, or a creepy, abive character who preys on the affectn of men he knows are attracted to him (Dumbledore) or who look to him for emotnal support (Crence) he’s played by Johnny Depp, who recently faced allegatns of domtic Depp’s stg was already ntroversial, and Grlwald’s role Fantastic Beasts plit matters even further. Cut gay dialogue om "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore" Cha.

Nfirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that has removed dialogue that explicly nfirms a gay relatnship "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore" for the movie's release Cha. Rowlg, who produced the film and served as a -screenwrer, first said that she had always nsired Dumbledore to be gay 2007.

'FANTASTIC BEASTS 3' GAY DIALOGUE REMOVED CHA

5 ln at the weekend box office, fallg le wh low weekend totals amid ongog COVID-related rtrictns and a lockdown Shanghai, Variety isn't the first time Cha's censors have removed referenc to homosexualy Wtern media.

THE THIRD 'FANTASTIC BEASTS' MOVIE FALLY ADDRS DUMBLEDORE'S SEXUALY ONT AND CENTER — NEARLY 15 YEARS AFTER J.K. ROWLG FIRST REVEALED HE'S GAY

And 2019, Cha leted at least 10 scen om the Osr-wng Freddie Mercury bpic "Bohemian Rhapsody" that had gay referenc, the Associated Prs the origal article on Insir. They’re narratively muddled, lack spirg central characters, have ncerng thgs to say about the rise of fascism, and notably refe to make Dumbledore explicly gay.

Dpe Rowlg’s post-Potter books announcement that she has always nsired the character of Alb Dumbledore to be gay and the Fantastic Beasts‘ centerg of the generally prumed to be queer relatnship between Dumbledore and Grlwald, the Fantastic Beasts anchise has avoid reprentg Dumbledore’s sexual inty or the specific nature of is relatnship wh Grlwald—to the triment of the story. To be clear: This isn’t to say that the anchise ma the right choice choosg not to make Dumbledore explicly gay the films th far. Perhaps the stud, like most studs, didn’t want to risk alienatg homophobic dienc, the U.

J.K. ROWLG, STOP QUEERBAG: WE’RE READY FOR GAY DUMBLEDORE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS’ — OPN

The relative homogeney of our cultural system perpetuat self through horrifilly mundane methods that are no ls damagg for how ordary and lm they n appear on the surface.

She’s not the person I want tellg a plited queer love story on the big screen and, that sense, maybe was always too late to make Fantastic Beasts gay, given the realy that she was always gog to be the person steerg this ship. The director of the upg film Fantastic Beasts: The Crim of Grlwald hasannounced that Alb Dumbledore will not live as an openly gay man the movie but will have some sensual scen wh the love of his life, Gellert Yat, who directed Fantastic Beasts and Where to Fd Them along wh four of the last Harry Potter movi, told Empire Magaze, a story to be released the prt edn this week, that the beloved character is not "out as a gay man this film. Rowlg years, Rowlg teased that the Fantastic Beasts sequels will liver fans an openly gay character at Hogwarts.

That he is gay. "Meanwhile, fans are overwhelmgly disappoted that the mds behd Hogwarts have not explicly shown the character they proclaimed as gay livg whout shame.

FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD AND DUMBLEDORE’S VEXG SEXUALYAS EXPECTED, THE FILM ALLUS TO DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S ROMANTIC PAST THROUGH HEAVY-HAND IMPLITN.BY LRA BRADLEYNOVEMBER 15, 2018COURTY OF WARNER BROS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS FOR FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD.OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, PROPERTI ACROSS JT ABOUT EVERY GENRE OF FILM AND TELEVISN HAVE BEEN LLED OUT FOR DMMG UP TERT BY TOUTG THE PRENCE OF QUEER OR QUEER-D CHARACTERS, ONLY TO WHIFF THE PROJECTS THEMSELV BY ONLY NODDG VAGUELY TOWARD THE SEXUALI OF THOSE CHARACTERS—AND RENRG THEM VIRTUALLY IRRELEVANT. THE TREND MAY HAVE REACHED S ZENH WHEN BILL CONDON, WHO DIRECTED THE 2017 LIVE-ACTN VERSN OF BETY AND THE BEAST, HYPED THE MOVIE BY SAYG A PRE-RELEASE TERVIEW THAT WOULD CLU AN “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT”—WHICH END UP BEG A BRIEF SCENE WHICH JOSH GAD DANCED WH ANOTHER MAN.MANY A NIZEN OF HARRY POTTERDOM HAD HIGHER HOP FOR THIS WEEK’S FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD. THE ENSEMBLE FILM VOLV A CHARACTER, ALB DUMBLEDORE, WHOM POTTER VENTOR J.K. ROWLG CLARED TO BE GAY, RIGHT AFTER WRAPPG THE SEVEN-BOOK SERI. (IT WAS ONLY THE FIRST OF MANY EX POST FACTO EDS AND ADDNS SHE WOULD EVENTUALLY MAKE TO HER MEGA-POPULAR ANCHISE.) EVEN AFTER NEWS BROKE THAT DUMBLEDORE AND HIS FORMER LOVER, GELLERT GRLWALD, WOULD NOT BE “EXPLICLY” GAY THE FILM, A QUTN HAS LGERED ABOUT HOW, EXACTLY, THE MOVIE WOULD ADDRS THE SUBJECT.DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY NEVER PLAYED AN EXPLIC ROLE THE BOOK SERI, EHER—BUT THE FANTASTIC BEASTS ANCHISE ST S GAZE TOWARD DUMBLEDORE AND HIS OLD FLAME GRLWALD’S PAST, GIVG ROWLG (WHO WR THE SCRIPTS FOR THE FANTASTIC BEASTS FILMS) AND DIRECTOR DAVID YAT A CHANCE TO RPORATE THAT FOOTNOTE TO THIS FICTNAL WORLD’S NON. BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT THE FILM SELF WOUND UP DOG. THROUGHOUT THE CRIM OF GRLWALD, DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S BOND IS SCRIBED, SO MANY WORDS, AS “LIKE BROTHERS, ONLY CLOSER”—ALL LONGG LOOKS AND BLOOD PACTS, LI OF ANY REAL ROMANCE.THOUGH THE SEND FANTASTIC BEASTS MOVIE HAS TIME FOR MULTIPLE CHARACTERS AND SUBPLOTS—TOO MANY, FACT!—THERE ARE ONLY A FEW FLEETG MOMENTS WHICH THE FILM DIRECTLY ADDRS DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S PAST. THE FIRST AS AN AUROR TRI TO NVCE DUMBLEDORE TO HELP TAKE GRLWALD DOWN. WHEN DUMBLEDORE EXPRS RELUCTANCE, THE OFFICER ASKS IF “THIS” IS THE REASON—STG A SPELL THAT SHOWS A SHADOWY YOUNG DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD LOOKG AT ONE ANOTHER. THE TWO WERE LIKE BROTHERS, HE SAYS. DUMBLEDORE’S REPLY? “WE WERE CLOSER THAN BROTHERS.” IN ANOTHER, LATER FLASHBACK, THE TWO ARE SHOWN EXECUTG A BLOOD PACT— LI OF KISSG OR SHOWG ANY OTHER SORT OF OUTWARD AFFECTN. IN PERHAPS THE MOST EXPLIC MOMENT THE ENTIRE FILM, DUMBLEDORE SE GRLWALD’S IMAGE THE MIRROR OF ERISED. AS DUMBLEDORE WOULD LATER TELL HARRY POTTER, THE MIRROR “SHOWS NOTHG MORE OR LS THEN THE EPT AND MOST SPERATE SIR OF ONE’S HEART.”THIS RELIANCE ON IMPLITN IS TRATG, PERHAPS, BUT UNRSTANDABLE; GIANT, FAY-IENDLY TENTPOLE FILMS DON’T TEND TO GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO RPORATE NTENT THAT CERTA MOGRAPHICS MIGHT FD NTROVERSIAL. THE WORST PART, THOUGH, IS THAT THE FILM TRI TO HAVE S KE AND EAT TOO. IT THROWS FANS A FEW BON BY ALLUDG TO DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S RELATNSHIP, YET DUMBLEDORE SEEMS UNWILLG OR UNABLE TO ADM THAT SAID RELATNSHIP WAS ROMANTIC. EVEN MORE PUZZLGLY, DUMBLEDORE NEVER EXPLAS WHY HE N’T BE HONT ABOUT THAT ASPECT OF HIS BOND WH GRLWALD.ONE HAS TO ASSUME THAT HOMOPHOBIA RAN RAMPANT THE WIZARDG WORLD THE 1920S, JT AS DID THE HUMAN WORLD—BUT THE NCEPT OF ANTI-GAY SENTIMENT IS AS VAGUE THE FILM AS THE NCEPT OF HOMOSEXUALY. IT’S REMISCENT OF LAST YEAR’S THE GREATT SHOWMAN, ANOTHER PERD PIECE THAT NSISTENTLY ALLUS TO THE DARK FORC KEEPG ZENDAYA’S CHARACTER AND ZAC EON’S CHARACTER APART WHOUT EVER DIRECTLY MENTNG RACISM. AS A RULT, THE RELATNSHIP RGS HOLLOW—LIKE A PLOT VICE OR A NARRATIVE NOVELTY SERTED PURELY SO THE FILM ULD CHECK OFF A BOX THE LEAST OFFENSIVE WAY.IT’S EASY TO IMAGE HOW THIS STORY LE ULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED DIFFERENTLY. EVEN ONE MORE WELL-PLACED FLASHBACK WOULD HAVE MA ALL THE DIFFERENCE—AND IF HAD FOCED ON GRLWALD, ULD EVEN HAVE ADD MUCH-NEED DIMENSN TO A CHARACTER WHO FEELS TOO MUCH LIKE A WHE-HAIRED VOLMORT RETREAD. AND WHILE N MAKE SENSE FOR CHARACTERS HISTORIL FICTN TO LIVE SI THE CLOSET, WOULD BE NICE TO AT LEAST SEE THEIR OPPRSN ACKNOWLEDGED. IF DUMBLEDORE HAD TO SUPPRS THIS PART OF HIS LIFE FOR S, ONE WOULD THK THAT WOULD PROVI SOME TERTG AVENU ON WHICH THE FILM ULD TRAVEL. BUT SEEMS FANTASTIC BEASTS WOULD RATHER EXPLORE CHARACTER VELOPMENT THROUGH AN EXPLIBLE ALTERNATIVE: MAKG EZRA MILLER DUMBLEDORE’S LONG-LOST SECRET BROTHER STEAD.MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE GILD AGE WILL GET A LOT MORE OPERATIC SEASON 2BY RICHARD LAWSONLRA BRADLEY

\u201cHP fans: diversy would be nice\nJKR: dumbledore was gay\nHPF: ol but he's ad so\u2013\nJKR: hermne n be black?

Typil that they will make volmort's snake girliend a plot pot and not speak a word about dumbledore beg gay\u201d — miceli \u270d\ufe0f (@miceli \u270d\ufe0f). Referenc to a gay relatnship “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” were eded out of the movie by Warner Bros.

Rowlg revealed Dumbledore was gay 2009, but the movi had never explicly referenced the character’s sexualy until this third “Fantastic Beasts” Bros. Speakg at Carnegie Hall that year, she said that she had "always thought of Dumbledore as gay" — and that the relatnship between him and his teenage iend Gellert Grlwald had been then, Dumbledore's sexualy has only explicly existed outsi of any of the anchise's ma properti, and Rowlg's words had never been nfirmed on screen. Queer fans of "Harry Potter" told Insir 2018 they were disappoted that Dumbledore's sexualy wouldn't be explicly picted the send "Fantastic Beasts" film, wh one fan tellg Insir that the cisn suated that Dumbledore uld "be gay Rowlg's public appearance and tweets, but not on screen.

DUMBLEDORE GRLWALD GAY RELATNSHIP NFIRMED FANTASTIC BEASTS 3

"I always thought of Dumbledore as gay, " J. 11 years later, the highly anticipated Fantastic Beasts: The Crim of Grlwald will troduce to a young Dumbledore, but will "not explicly" tell he's gay, director David Yat told Entertament Weekly.

When Rowlg ma her announcement 2007, Alb Dumbledore – already a hero to lns of Harry Potter fans, beme stantly nonized lerature as a prolific gay character; one who was not stereotypil or negative, and whose tragic love story wh the evil Grlwald as teens has fascated Potter fans ever sce they learned of . It would make sense for a gay man the 1920s and '30s to not want to discs his sexualy, but Beasts already has siar discrepanci, like the Ain Amerin print of the U. Rowlg announced 2007 that she “always thought of Dumbledore as gay, ” ial reactns were mixed.

Beg ckeyed optimists (’s om “South Pacific, ” get your mds out of the gutter), “Harry Potter” fans hoped the forthg movi might actually show Dumbledore, you know, beg gay, even though is never explicly stated the books. Wh a highly succsful “Harry Potter” prequel anchise full swg, Rowlg has a chance to set the rerd… gay.

EZRA MILLER REVEALS HOW DUMBLEDORE IS 'EXPLICLY GAY' 'FANTASTIC BEASTS 2'

As the movie’s screenwrer, (she did not wre any of the “Harry Potter” movi), surely Rowlg would jump at the chance to fally nonize gay Dumbledore. Well, you n expelliarm those fantasi right out of your ty queer hearts, bee gay Dumbledore is still nothg more than an apparn — and not the kd you n see. “Fantastic Beasts” director David Yat recently told Entertament Weekly how his movie will handle Dumbledore’s gayns: “Not explicly.

The nfirmatn om Yat is all the more disappotg nsirg studs have been quietly ttg the gay waters, wh small moments tentpol like “Bety and the Beast” and “Power Rangers. ” There was a flurry of excement last year when out gay director Bill Condon said his live-actn “Bety and the Beast” would boast an “exclively gay moment, ” which turned out to be an overhyped spl-send dance between two men.

FANTASTIC BEASTS 2'S FEAR OF A GAY DUMBLEDORE IS STUPID

Like “Bety and the Beast, ” “Fantastic Beasts” has a built- dience, one so loyal that ’s hard to image a gay storyle would negatively affect s bottom le. Has a foolproof path toward makg history wh the first stud tentpole wh an out gay character.

"FANTASTIC BEASTS 3" CENSORS GAY STORYLE FOR CHE RELEASE

” (Meang Dumbledore beg gay).

Sure, send right back to the closet wh our silly ltle fantasi, like the last two lennia of gay stori.