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DUMBLEDORE IS SO GAY!
Siarly, Dumbledore, who was “outed” by Rowlg after the publitn of The Deathly Hallows (2007), is never explicly scribed as gay the septet (e. As Tison Pugh argu, Rowlg regularly “slyly troduce[s] numero topics typilly nsired taboo for children – vulgary, btialy, alholism, excrementaly, ” and homosexualy (2011, p. Rowlg’s tongue--cheek, often phemistic pictns of sexualy, while ually foced on heteronormative entanglements, clu cross-speci and homosexual hts (Duggan, 2019, pp.
Readg to the sly silenc has been openly enuraged by Rowlg, who announced to her fans after the release of Deathly Hallows (2007) that Dumbledore was gay and stated that sensive rears would notice hts of his homosexualy (e. While some might claim that the elements are subtextual, many rears argue that they are surface elements which ought not to be dismissed or ignored and that, nsequently, readg queerly is not necsarily ristant but ved (Jon, 2014) Potter fans’ queer readg practic were further enuraged by the long-lived ditn of media fans to homoerotic fan fictn, known as “slash. And, while fans had been readg queerly long before Rowlg announced that she nsired Dumbledore to be gay, her announcement of this fact—followed by the ment, “Oh my God, the fan fictn!
Although sexualy has always been the primary ncern of scholarship on slash, genr has also been a topic of discsn—om an assertn that slash monstrat the expansivens of the tegory “woman” and women’s sexuali to the recent challenge by gay men (Brennan, 2014; Coleman, 2019) and, creasgly, genr mory fans (Duggan, forthg; Ledbetter, 2020; Rose, 2018, 2020) to scholars’ sistence that slash is a women’s genre.