J.K. Rowlg’s Queerbag: ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Needs Gay Dumbledore – IndieWire

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• SO, HOW GAY IS ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ EXACTLY?
• DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD FALLY GET THEIR GAY MOMENT FANTASTIC BEASTS 3
• J.K. ROWLG HTS THAT DUMBLEDORE WILL BE OPENLY GAY THE FANTASTIC BEASTS SEQUEL
• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED
• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? WHY J.K. ROWLG'S NTUAL CHARACTER REVISNISM IS GETTG OLD
• 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 CATHERALLNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHLRA BRADLEY
• FANTASTIC BEASTS DIRECTOR REVEALS HOW SEQUEL HANDL DUMBLEDORE BEG GAY
• J.K. ROWLG, STOP QUEERBAG: WE’RE READY FOR GAY DUMBLEDORE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS’ — OPN
• DUMBLEDORE WON’T BE EXPLICLY GAY FANTASTIC BEASTS 2—BUT WHY?DIRECTOR DAVID YAT DISAPPOTS FANS BY SAYG THAT DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY WILL NOT MAKE TO SCREEN—AT LEAST, “NOT EXPLICLY”— THE UPG FILM.BY LRA BRADLEYJANUARY 31, 2018BY MARK SELIGER/WARNER BROS. PICTUR.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN THE ST FOR FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD WAS FIRST ANNOUNCED, WH JU LAW SET TO PLAY A YOUNGER, HOTTER DUMBLEDORE, FANS GREW EXCED, IMAGG BOUNDLS POSSIBILI FOR THIS DASHG NEW VERSN OF THE CHARACTER. COULD THE FILM, PERHAPS, EVEN CLU A GLIMPSE AT THE FUTURE HOGWARTS HEADMASTER’S ROMANTIC LIFE—A SUBJECT LEFT OPEN-END BY THE ORIGAL HARRY POTTER BOOKS, THOUGH J.K. ROWLG NFIRMED AFTER PLETG THE SERI THAT DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY?WELL, NO. DIRECTOR DAVID YAT HAS REVEALED THAT FOR NOW, DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY WILL NOT MAKE TO SCREEN—AT LEAST, “NOT EXPLICLY.”“BUT I THK ALL THE FANS ARE AWARE OF THAT,” YAT NTUED, SPEAKG TO ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY. “HE HAD A VERY TENSE RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG MEN. THEY FELL LOVE WH EACH OTHER’S IAS, AND IOLOGY, AND EACH OTHER.”ROWLG PREVLY TEASED THE IA THAT EVENTUALLY, ONE OF THE FIVE PLANNED FANTASTIC BEASTS FILMS WILL ADDRS DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY—BUT ’S UNCLEAR WHEN, OR HOW. “WELL, I N’T TELL YOU EVERYTHG I WOULD LIKE TO SAY BEE THIS IS OBVLY A FIVE-PART STORY, SO THERE’S LOTS TO UNPACK THAT RELATNSHIP,” SHE SAID AT A PRS NFERENCE 2016. “I WILL SAY THAT YOU WILL SEE DUMBLEDORE AS A YOUNGER MAN, AND QUE A TROUBLED MAN BEE HE WASN’T ALWAYS THE SAGE. HE WAS ALWAYS VERY CLEVER, BUT WE’LL SEE WHAT I THK WAS THE FORMATIVE PERD OF HIS LIFE. AS FAR AS HIS SEXUALY IS NCERNED, WATCH THE SPACE.” ROWLG RPOND TO THE RECENT NTROVERSY ON TWTER, PLAG THAT SHE’D BEEN “SENT ABE ABOUT AN TERVIEW THAT DIDN'T VOLVE ME, ABOUT A SCREENPLAY I WROTE BUT WHICH NONE OF THE ANGRY PEOPLE HAVE READ, WHICH IS PART OF A FIVE-MOVIE SERI THAT'S ONLY ONE STALMENT .”WHAT, EXACTLY, ARE FANS TO MAKE OF THIS? ROWLG FIRST ANNOUNCED THAT DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY 2007, WHILE PROMOTG THE FAL BOOK HER ORIGAL SERI, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. AS SHE PUT TO ONE FAN WHO ASKED IF DUMBLEDORE HAD EVER FALLEN LOVE, “I ALWAYS THOUGHT OF DUMBLEDORE AS GAY.” THREE HARRY POTTER FILMS WERE RELEASED AFTER THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, BUT NONE OF THEM MA EXPLIC MENTN OF DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY—UNRSTANDABLY, PERHAPS, SCE THEIR SOURCE MATERIAL DIDN’T EHER. AS OF NOW, DUMBLEDORE’S ROMANTIC LIFE HAS BEEN PURELY THE STUFF OF FAN FICTN—AND APPARENTLY, WILL REMA SO FOR THE FOREEABLE FUTURE.THIS APPROACH SPEAKS TO A TRATG TREND BLOCKBTER MOVI, ONE EXEMPLIFIED BY RECENT FILMS LIKE POWER RANGERS AND BETY AND THE BEAST. BOTH MOVI MA HEADL BY TEASG STORY L VOLVG EXPLICLY GAY CHARACTERS—OR, THE SE OF BETY AND THE BEAST, AN “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT.” WHEN THE MOVI ACTUALLY MA TO THEATERS, THOUGH, THOSE MUCH-TOUTED SCEN AMOUNTED TO LTLE MORE THAN THROWAWAY MOMENTS THAT FELT DIVORCED OM THE RT OF THE STORY—BLK-AND-YOU’LL-MISS- AGMENTS, RATHER THAN TE EXAMPL OF MUCH-NEED L.G.B.T. REPRENTATN. THERE’S SOMETHG CYNIL ABOUT EXPLICLY TELLG L.G.B.T. FANS TO LOOK OUT FOR L.G.B.T. CHARACTERS—THEN RPONDG TO THEIR ATTENTN (AND TICKET PURCHAS) WH WEAK FETS AT CLN, OR NOTHG AT ALL.ALTHOUGH TV NTU TO MAKE GREAT STRIS THIS ARENA, FILM HAS LAGGED FAR BEHD—AND FEW ANCHIS MAKE THAT MORE READILY APPARENT THAN FANTASTIC BEASTS. OBVLY, ’S WRONG TO WRE A FILM OFF WHOUT HAVG SEEN —BUT AT THE SAME TIME, ’S ONLY NATURAL FOR SOME FANS TO FEEL DISAPPOTMENT AT THIS DUMBLEDORE NEWS. LEGNS OF MOVIEGOERS ARE TIRED OF BEG TEASED WH THE POSSIBILY OF L.G.B.T. CHARACTERS, ONLY TO HAVE THE PROSPECT UNCEREMONLY YANKED OUT OM UNR THEM. THE FIRST FANTASTIC BEASTS ALREADY HGED ON AN OBV GAY LIBERATN METAPHOR VOLVG EZRA MILLER’S CHARACTER, CRENCE. WHY, THEN, SHOULD BOTHER BEG Y ABOUT DUMBLEDORE’S PERSONAL LIFE—PECIALLY A FILM THAT SENTIALLY PS THE CHARACTER AGAST HIS TERRIBLE EX-BOYIEND?MARKETG DIVISNS SEEM TO HAVE FIGURED OUT ALREADY THAT REPRENTATN OFTEN HELPS A FILM’S BOTTOM LE; HOW LONG WILL TAKE FOR WRERS AND FILMMAKERS TO FOLLOW SU?DANIEL RADCLIFFE’S QUIRKY POST-HARRY POTTER PROJECTS: AN APPRECIATN1 / 10CHEVRONCHEVRONFROM CBS FILMS/EVERETT COLLECTN.THE WOMAN BLACK (2012)THIS BRISH PERD HORROR FLICK WAS RADCLIFFE’S FIRST MAJOR OUTG POST-POTTER. RADCLIFFE STARRED AS ARTHUR KIPPS, A LAWYER ALG WH THE LOSS OF HIS WIFE WHO SOON FDS HIMSELF ALG WH A SUPERNATURAL THREAT—THE TULAR WOMAN BLACK. THE MOVIE MA £14 LN S FIRST THREE WEEKS AT S HOME BOX OFFICE, A RERD U.K. OPENG FOR A BRISH HORROR FILM.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORDLRA BRADLEY
• WARNER BROS. CENSORS GAY RELATNSHIP DIALOGUE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE’ FOR CHA RELEASE

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

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

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.

DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD FALLY GET THEIR GAY MOMENT FANTASTIC BEASTS 3

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. 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???

J.K. ROWLG HTS THAT DUMBLEDORE WILL BE OPENLY GAY THE FANTASTIC BEASTS SEQUEL

"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. 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.

IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED

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IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? WHY J.K. ROWLG'S NTUAL CHARACTER REVISNISM IS GETTG OLD

Dumbledore has fally said he's gay out '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 you have , the gay Harry Potter moment we've been wag 15 years for.

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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 CATHERALLNEW ON NETFLIX: SEPTEMBER 2023'S BT NEW MOVI & SHOWSBY CHRIS MURPHYFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHLRA BRADLEY

Dumbledore is fally g out as gay and he is dog so a subtle manner the new Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of 2007, JK Rowlg rocked the world of Harry Potter fans after revealg that she always thought Alb Dumbledore was gay. Fans were eply shaken bee nothg the books dited the Hogwarts headmaster beg homosexual bis JK alludg to his once-close relatnship wh the evil wizard Gellert, fally, Dumbledore and Grlwald have got their gay moment on the show when the former nfs his love for the villa.

FANTASTIC BEASTS DIRECTOR REVEALS HOW SEQUEL HANDL DUMBLEDORE BEG GAY

SEE: What happened to Fez Mallatia as rapper reveals he is battlg an illnsScreenshots om Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – Dumbledore’s First ArmyDumbledore gets a gay moment Fantastic Beasts 3In a new clip om Fantastic Beasts 3, we see Dumbledore nfsg his love to Grlwald. (@avillashoe) March 17, 2022 View Tweet Gay Dumbledore is the only reason I am watchg the new HP movi.

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

” She went on to ht that Dumbledore will be openly gay the seri. ” Rowlg first revealed Dumbledore was gay durg a 2007 appearance at Carnegie Hall, notg, “I always thought of Dumbledore as gay.

Rowlg over the years, cludg Alb Dumbledore's sexual orientatn – so, is Dumbledore gay, and what is his relatnship wh Gellert Grlwald? Outsi the movi, Rowlg answered the "is Dumbledore gay? When Alb Dumbledore Was Confirmed To Be Gay.

Those spicns were nfirmed 2007 durg a readg of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prce at Carnegie Hall, where Rowlg was asked if Dumbledore ever fell love, and she replied that she “always thought of Dumbledore as gay” even revealg that Dumbledore had been love wh Gellert Grlwald. Rowlg even shared that a le the early script for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prce had Dumbledore sayg he “knew a girl once, ” and she had to add a note on the marg lettg them know that Dumbledore is gay.

DUMBLEDORE WON’T BE EXPLICLY GAY FANTASTIC BEASTS 2—BUT WHY?DIRECTOR DAVID YAT DISAPPOTS FANS BY SAYG THAT DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY WILL NOT MAKE TO SCREEN—AT LEAST, “NOT EXPLICLY”— THE UPG FILM.BY LRA BRADLEYJANUARY 31, 2018BY MARK SELIGER/WARNER BROS. PICTUR.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN THE ST FOR FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD WAS FIRST ANNOUNCED, WH JU LAW SET TO PLAY A YOUNGER, HOTTER DUMBLEDORE, FANS GREW EXCED, IMAGG BOUNDLS POSSIBILI FOR THIS DASHG NEW VERSN OF THE CHARACTER. COULD THE FILM, PERHAPS, EVEN CLU A GLIMPSE AT THE FUTURE HOGWARTS HEADMASTER’S ROMANTIC LIFE—A SUBJECT LEFT OPEN-END BY THE ORIGAL HARRY POTTER BOOKS, THOUGH J.K. ROWLG NFIRMED AFTER PLETG THE SERI THAT DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY?WELL, NO. DIRECTOR DAVID YAT HAS REVEALED THAT FOR NOW, DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY WILL NOT MAKE TO SCREEN—AT LEAST, “NOT EXPLICLY.”“BUT I THK ALL THE FANS ARE AWARE OF THAT,” YAT NTUED, SPEAKG TO ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY. “HE HAD A VERY TENSE RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG MEN. THEY FELL LOVE WH EACH OTHER’S IAS, AND IOLOGY, AND EACH OTHER.”ROWLG PREVLY TEASED THE IA THAT EVENTUALLY, ONE OF THE FIVE PLANNED FANTASTIC BEASTS FILMS WILL ADDRS DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY—BUT ’S UNCLEAR WHEN, OR HOW. “WELL, I N’T TELL YOU EVERYTHG I WOULD LIKE TO SAY BEE THIS IS OBVLY A FIVE-PART STORY, SO THERE’S LOTS TO UNPACK THAT RELATNSHIP,” SHE SAID AT A PRS NFERENCE 2016. “I WILL SAY THAT YOU WILL SEE DUMBLEDORE AS A YOUNGER MAN, AND QUE A TROUBLED MAN BEE HE WASN’T ALWAYS THE SAGE. HE WAS ALWAYS VERY CLEVER, BUT WE’LL SEE WHAT I THK WAS THE FORMATIVE PERD OF HIS LIFE. AS FAR AS HIS SEXUALY IS NCERNED, WATCH THE SPACE.” ROWLG RPOND TO THE RECENT NTROVERSY ON TWTER, PLAG THAT SHE’D BEEN “SENT ABE ABOUT AN TERVIEW THAT DIDN'T VOLVE ME, ABOUT A SCREENPLAY I WROTE BUT WHICH NONE OF THE ANGRY PEOPLE HAVE READ, WHICH IS PART OF A FIVE-MOVIE SERI THAT'S ONLY ONE STALMENT .”WHAT, EXACTLY, ARE FANS TO MAKE OF THIS? ROWLG FIRST ANNOUNCED THAT DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY 2007, WHILE PROMOTG THE FAL BOOK HER ORIGAL SERI, HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. AS SHE PUT TO ONE FAN WHO ASKED IF DUMBLEDORE HAD EVER FALLEN LOVE, “I ALWAYS THOUGHT OF DUMBLEDORE AS GAY.” THREE HARRY POTTER FILMS WERE RELEASED AFTER THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, BUT NONE OF THEM MA EXPLIC MENTN OF DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY—UNRSTANDABLY, PERHAPS, SCE THEIR SOURCE MATERIAL DIDN’T EHER. AS OF NOW, DUMBLEDORE’S ROMANTIC LIFE HAS BEEN PURELY THE STUFF OF FAN FICTN—AND APPARENTLY, WILL REMA SO FOR THE FOREEABLE FUTURE.THIS APPROACH SPEAKS TO A TRATG TREND BLOCKBTER MOVI, ONE EXEMPLIFIED BY RECENT FILMS LIKE POWER RANGERS AND BETY AND THE BEAST. BOTH MOVI MA HEADL BY TEASG STORY L VOLVG EXPLICLY GAY CHARACTERS—OR, THE SE OF BETY AND THE BEAST, AN “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT.” WHEN THE MOVI ACTUALLY MA TO THEATERS, THOUGH, THOSE MUCH-TOUTED SCEN AMOUNTED TO LTLE MORE THAN THROWAWAY MOMENTS THAT FELT DIVORCED OM THE RT OF THE STORY—BLK-AND-YOU’LL-MISS- AGMENTS, RATHER THAN TE EXAMPL OF MUCH-NEED L.G.B.T. REPRENTATN. THERE’S SOMETHG CYNIL ABOUT EXPLICLY TELLG L.G.B.T. FANS TO LOOK OUT FOR L.G.B.T. CHARACTERS—THEN RPONDG TO THEIR ATTENTN (AND TICKET PURCHAS) WH WEAK FETS AT CLN, OR NOTHG AT ALL.ALTHOUGH TV NTU TO MAKE GREAT STRIS THIS ARENA, FILM HAS LAGGED FAR BEHD—AND FEW ANCHIS MAKE THAT MORE READILY APPARENT THAN FANTASTIC BEASTS. OBVLY, ’S WRONG TO WRE A FILM OFF WHOUT HAVG SEEN —BUT AT THE SAME TIME, ’S ONLY NATURAL FOR SOME FANS TO FEEL DISAPPOTMENT AT THIS DUMBLEDORE NEWS. LEGNS OF MOVIEGOERS ARE TIRED OF BEG TEASED WH THE POSSIBILY OF L.G.B.T. CHARACTERS, ONLY TO HAVE THE PROSPECT UNCEREMONLY YANKED OUT OM UNR THEM. THE FIRST FANTASTIC BEASTS ALREADY HGED ON AN OBV GAY LIBERATN METAPHOR VOLVG EZRA MILLER’S CHARACTER, CRENCE. WHY, THEN, SHOULD BOTHER BEG Y ABOUT DUMBLEDORE’S PERSONAL LIFE—PECIALLY A FILM THAT SENTIALLY PS THE CHARACTER AGAST HIS TERRIBLE EX-BOYIEND?MARKETG DIVISNS SEEM TO HAVE FIGURED OUT ALREADY THAT REPRENTATN OFTEN HELPS A FILM’S BOTTOM LE; HOW LONG WILL TAKE FOR WRERS AND FILMMAKERS TO FOLLOW SU?DANIEL RADCLIFFE’S QUIRKY POST-HARRY POTTER PROJECTS: AN APPRECIATN1 / 10CHEVRONCHEVRONFROM CBS FILMS/EVERETT COLLECTN.THE WOMAN BLACK (2012)THIS BRISH PERD HORROR FLICK WAS RADCLIFFE’S FIRST MAJOR OUTG POST-POTTER. RADCLIFFE STARRED AS ARTHUR KIPPS, A LAWYER ALG WH THE LOSS OF HIS WIFE WHO SOON FDS HIMSELF ALG WH A SUPERNATURAL THREAT—THE TULAR WOMAN BLACK. THE MOVIE MA £14 LN S FIRST THREE WEEKS AT S HOME BOX OFFICE, A RERD U.K. OPENG FOR A BRISH HORROR FILM.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISTHE BOOK OF CLARENCE IS A BOMBASTIC JOURNEY BACK TO THE BIBLIL ERABY REBEC FORDLRA BRADLEY

Why Dumbledore Wasn't Confirmed As Gay In Harry Potter Movi Or Books. Rowlg's rponse to "is Dumbledore gay?

While some praised that a big character the children’s book seri was gay, others qutned Rowlg’s cisn to nfirm the spicns of fans after the book seri me to an end and Dumbledore died, th leavg no chance for the exploratn of Dumbledore’s sexualy… unls there was a prequel seri of some kd. ” However, Fantastic Beasts never explicly ma clear Dumbledore is gay. Why Fantastic Beasts Don't Explicly Confirm That Dumbledore Is Gay.

However, the film qutn never explicly stat that Alb is gay. The Harry Potter TV Seri Can Portray Dumbledore As Openly Gay.

WARNER BROS. CENSORS GAY RELATNSHIP DIALOGUE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE’ FOR CHA RELEASE

When lookg at the qutn "is Dumbledore gay?, " there is a new chance to answer . This uld also allow to portray Dumbledore as openly gay om the start and not have to hi his sexualy to ter to a more fay-iendly prentatn, as the Fantastic Beasts movi did.

This is not to say that the new prentatn has to be explic or tense, as Rowlg lled , but n show that Dumbledore is gay whout any need for ambiguy.