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Contents:

• DRA MALFOY ACTOR TOM FELTON RPONDS TO POPULAR THEORY HIS HARRY POTTER CHARACTER WAS GAY
• IS TOM FELTON (AKA DRA MALFOY OM HARRY POTTER) GAY?
• HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD IS A GAY LOVE STORY, DON'T @ ME
• HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD HTS AT GAY RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ALB SEVES POTTER AND SRPI MALFOY
• FEATURED STORI
• HARRY POTTER AND THE POSSIBLE QUEERBAG: WHY FANS ARE MAD OVER A LACK OF GAY ROMANCE
• DRA MALFOY ACTOR TOM FELTON RPONDS TO POPULAR THEORY HIS HARRY POTTER CHARACTER WAS GAY
• THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE STILL N'T TRANSLATE S GAY SUBTEXT TO TEXT. IT'S A PROBLEM.
• THE GAY ROMANCE IN THE CURSED CHILD: A LETTER TO JK ROWLG
• HARRY POTTER FANS ARE ANGRY AT THE LACK OF GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN SRPI AND ALB CURSED CHILD

DRA MALFOY ACTOR TOM FELTON RPONDS TO POPULAR THEORY HIS HARRY POTTER CHARACTER WAS GAY

”Felton's character has been the source of plenty of fan-fictn over the years, wh many imagg Dra to be eher gay or love wh Hermne (Emma Watson) – but now, he's thrown his support behd the former year, Felton, 31, claimed he’s never re-watched any of the Harry Potter films – and revealed a rather touchg reason for choosg not to.

Every time a csh on a girl is allud to, feels like JK Rowlg is shoutg “no homo!

Which is a shame given that Rowlg was so keen to pot out that Dumbledore is gay after publishg seven novels whout even the fatt whiff of homosexualy. Even the Fantastic Beasts film seri – which featur Dumbledore nflict wh a man that Rowlg says he was love wh – Rowlg avoids makg the character “explicly gay”. We’re not entirely sure what “explicly gay” means.

IS TOM FELTON (AKA DRA MALFOY OM HARRY POTTER) GAY?

Is really likely that Luci Malfoy was gay and that Narcissa and Seves were lovers? However, Alb and Srpi' close iendship upsets both of their MORE: Harry Potter director wants to make a Cursed Child movie wh the origal stIs Alb Seves Potter gay?

Baby Daddy44 pag Completed January 15, 2018 butterfly "The least you uld do is adopt your gay lover's child". Queerbag is a term that exists mostly fan muni, and refers to the wrers or creators of a world (whether of a movie anchise, a book seri, or a TV show) g jectns of homoeroticism and romance to draw an dience seekg LGBTQ reprentatn, while not alienatg a wir dience who may not want to see a gay relatnship picted. ”) a manner remblg the mon trope “Hot Gay Huggg”: a hilar tle for the ls-than-funny absence of sual timacy allowed between homosexual characters.

HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD IS A GAY LOVE STORY, DON'T @ ME

Hetero upl get to kiss, the gays are limed to a (hot gay) hug.

Sce Rowlg outed Alb Dumbledore as a gay man – retrospectively, once the books were fished and the character ad – rears have been impatient to see a gay character troduced Harry Potter’s Srb got well ahead of the Cursed Child: there is a rnupia of Srb fan fictn onle, wh some stori datg back to years before the play was even announced.

HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD HTS AT GAY RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ALB SEVES POTTER AND SRPI MALFOY

“The wrers of the Cursed Child tentnally clud this fan theory to draw , but cid to change jt enough so that they wouldn’t have to adm that they ma two 11-year-olds gay, ” Jamon Ortiz, an LGBTQ mpaigner and Harry Potter fan, told me. “It’s queerbag bee they knew exactly who they were reelg and why, but still cid to leave out the ma attractn for all the fans they hooked, choosg stead, like so many others, to set up the gay romance, ht at nstantly, make believable and ep and perfect, and then force out of the story. ”Put asi sexualy for jt one moment – regardls of whether you are gay or not, is extremely important to see portrayals of ep, emotnal, non-sexual romantic male iendships popular culture.

Any emotnal or physil closens is bshed away as “gay” a pejorative sense.

This isn’t to say that queerbag isn’t real – but there’s a reason why we see closens between men as almost trsilly gay.

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Yet, once was revealed at Rad Cy Mic Hall, that Dumbledore was fact gay, ma more sense that perhaps McGonagall was gay as well. 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 sually tossed off one of the biggt announcements the history of her landmark fantasy phenomenon: Dumbledore, Harry’s mentor and the greatt wizard the world until his dramatic ath book six, was gay.

HARRY POTTER AND THE POSSIBLE QUEERBAG: WHY FANS ARE MAD OVER A LACK OF GAY ROMANCE

The iendship between Harry’s son, Alb, and Dra Malfoy’s son, Srpi, the play has drawn much media mentary that’s mced few words cricizg the way the script spends s time buildg evince for a nonilly queer relatnship between the two boys, only to btally yank away at the end wh a flimsy "No Homo" exce. Those books, which are wrten for adults, all nta diverse sts and sthg social mentary on everythg om class issu to homelsns and homophobia. Even more bafflg on the subject of queer inty is that a 2007 terview, Rowlg herself ma clear she don’t thk ’s a major issue to be gay the wizardg world:.

So I thk you uld be gay, pureblood, and totally whout any kd of cricism om the Luci Malfoys of the world. Aga and aga, the poorly wrten women of the play are ed as shamels props for the giant, flashg "NO HOMO! By self, this is a troublg versn of the "wear the girl down" trope; upled wh the play’s homoerotic subtext, ’s a tra wreck.

In short, they have none of the specific homoerotic hallmarks of Alb and Srpi’s relatnship.

DRA MALFOY ACTOR TOM FELTON RPONDS TO POPULAR THEORY HIS HARRY POTTER CHARACTER WAS GAY

Dumbledore and the curse of offscreen homosexualy. By outg him after his ath, Rowlg effectively placed Dumbledore wh the longstandg, problematic "ad gays" trope, stead of showg him livg out his queer inty — or, even better, givg kids exampl of queer characters Harry’s own age that they might be able to more effectively relate to than a 150-year-old sock-lovg school prcipal. Rowlg: A Year the Life, Rowlg rpond the negative to a fan’s qutn about whether Charlie Weasley was gay: "It’s jt, he's more terted dragons than women.

Fans famoly celebrated the news that the pair had given Harry a jot Christmas prent the fourth book; what uld be more symbolic of a gay partnership than givg their surrogate kid a prent together? The tentnal clu on the part of wrers and actors arose wh the ntext of Hollywood’s homophobic "celluloid closet, " and beme a subterranean practice of "dg" characters as queer. It’s this dg of plot and athetic clu that has allowed queer fans to read the tentnally ployed homoerotic subtext that mak up films like Ben Hur and Rebel Whout a Cse.

In sence, many fans believed Rowlg had taken the two queert characters the seri, -gayed them, and stuck them together a child-producg heteronormative unn. That one of those characters is named after Alb Dumbledore — th far the only not-que-nonilly-gay character the entire wizardg world — is the fal dollop of irony.

THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE STILL N'T TRANSLATE S GAY SUBTEXT TO TEXT. IT'S A PROBLEM.

While Dumbledore and Grdlewald were gay, this wasn’t actually revealed the books themselv. While terpretatns fandom vary, many people thk that Siri would make sense as a gay character. Many people have poted out that there is a lot of subtext, a mon way to ht at gay relatnships whout makg them non, between their relatnship.

THE GAY ROMANCE IN THE CURSED CHILD: A LETTER TO JK ROWLG

On April Fools Day, Felton posted a nod to fans who ‘ship’ a gay relatnship between the pair, known as ‘drarry’. Daniel Radcliffe gay.

“I’m pleased my girliend [now] up before alholic or gay.

HARRY POTTER FANS ARE ANGRY AT THE LACK OF GAY ROMANCE BETWEEN SRPI AND ALB CURSED CHILD

“When I first did that, I got really annoyed for about half a mute, until I tried a few other people’s nam and I found out [gay] up after almost everyone if they’re a man, and even some women – Florence Welch had , and I was like, really? And every pair of kd ey blooms om behd a set of unseeable, unniable half-moon along wh beg a Harry Potter fanatic, I’m gay. I would love to lgh off my expectatn of a gay romance, to sweep asi as the pg of a young gay man for reprentatn he don’t need.

You wrote a gay romance. It means so much to know that Dumbledore is gay––that you have ved such an exceptnal character om your novels to our muny.

But wrg a gay love story––or visg a gay love story and havg Jack Thorne put on paper––and then askg to ignore that love, you are undog some of the good you’ve done. Srpi Malfoy velops a close iendship wh Alb Seves Potter (Picture: Pottermore)The wrers of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child have been acced of ‘queerbag’ over a potential gay romance between Alb Seves Potter and Srpi Malfoy. Queerbag is a term which refers to how thors attempt to attract an LGBTQ dience whout explicly nsummatg a gay relatnship.