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Contents:

• J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY
• JK ROWLG IS FACG A BACKLASH OVER THE DUMBLEDORE/GRLWALD GAY RELATNSHIP REVEAL
• J.K. ROWLG WANTS YOU TO KNOW HOW GAY DUMBLEDORE REALLY WAS
• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? WHY J.K. ROWLG'S NTUAL CHARACTER REVISNISM IS GETTG OLD
• J.K. ROWLG SUGGTS HORMON ARE ‘CONVERSN THERAPY FOR YOUNG GAY PEOPLE’

J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY

Many, myself clud, believe we are watchg a new kd of nversn therapy for young gay people, who are beg set on a lifelong path of medilisatn that may rult the loss of their fertily and/or full sexual functn.

Lark Malakai Grey is the -host of the queer "Harry Potter" podst, "The Gayly Prophet. Rowlg published the seventh and fal book the “Harry Potter” seri 2007, she announced that the character of Dumbledore had “fallen love wh” another male character, effectively nfirmg he was gay. Amidst the ntroversy, was also brought to light that Rowlg’s famo psdonym “Robert Galbrah, ” (her Twter b outright stat, “Wrer sometim known as Robert Galbrah”) is also the name of the psychiatrist who pneered gay nversn therapy.

Here’s a sign of how far the world has e: Some fans are upset that “Fantastic Beasts 2” is not gog to let Dumbledore be openly gay. Rowlg revealed 2007 that the Hogwarts School headmaster was gay after the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, ” the fal book the boy wizard seri. In 2015, she fend what she said after a fan tweeted her, askg, “I wonr why you said that Dumbledore is gay bee I n’t see him that way.

JK ROWLG IS FACG A BACKLASH OVER THE DUMBLEDORE/GRLWALD GAY RELATNSHIP REVEAL

Rowlg’s reply to cric of gay Dumbledore. Rowlg tweeted back: “Maybe bee gay people jt look like… people?

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. 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...

J.K. ROWLG WANTS YOU TO KNOW HOW GAY DUMBLEDORE REALLY WAS

Many wish the characters actually intified as gay the books and movi Rowlg created, not jt her md.

Rowlg Confirms Some Characters Her Books and Movi Are Gay Everywhere Except the Books or the Movi, " another Twter er wrote.

Rowlg Confirms Some Characters Her Books and Movi Are Gay Everywhere Except the Books or the Movi Eric D. ’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. “Many, myself clud, believe we are watchg a new kd of nversn therapy for young gay people, who are beg set on a lifelong path of medilizatn that may rult the loss of their fertily and/or full sexual functn.

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

As a survivor of gay nversn therapy who has publicly spoken out agast the practice for many years, I feel the need to rrect Rowlg’s misage of the term while also potg out how this kd of language is credibly harmful not only to trans people but also to a mocratic society. To say that genr-affirmg re will harm “young gay people” displays, at bt, ignorance, and, at worst, an attempt to p the LGBTQ muny agast self orr to ga support for her fallac argument.

I doubt my fellow gays will fall for , however, sce the “protect the kids” rhetoric has been ed agast for s by such anizatns as Foc on the Fay, which is known for s anti-LGBTQ views. When I was enrolled at the now-funct Love Actn, one of the largt ‘ex-gay’ facili the untry, we were told that a person uld not be a homosexual.

We uld experience “same-sex attractn, ” but we uld not be homosexual, bee God created marriage to exist only between a man and a woman. Thankfully, the kd of thkg I enuntered my “ex-gay” handbook is now archived the Smhsonian Natnal Mm of Amerin History, where belongs, though nversn therapy has only been banned 20 stat th far.

J.K. ROWLG SUGGTS HORMON ARE ‘CONVERSN THERAPY FOR YOUNG GAY PEOPLE’

“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. Rowlg rponds to gay Dumbledore ntroversy.

"Dumbledore is gay, " Rowlg said rponse to a fan who asked if the Hogwarts headmaster ever found te love.

You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web that announcement was ntroversial at the time (Bill O'Reilly acced Rowlg of participatg some sort of gay agenda; I had a very stupid blow-out fight wh my boyiend which I lled Rowlg "lazy as hell" for not pictg Dumbledore as anythg beyond sexls old man the actual books), Rowlg has forced all to revis aga nearly 12 years later. 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.

He led a celibate and a bookish Dumbledore, Rowlg's ey, was an asexual homosexual who had an tensely sexls relatnship wh a bad wizard who was more horny for evil than he was for Dumbledore. And while 's nice to see my specifilly stupid romantic history reprented a fantasy seri for children, I am not sure 's que earned nsirg 's not actually picted the seri self, but rather jt empty talkg pots om an thor who isn't bold enough to make her gay wizards be gay wh one Culture EdorTyler Coat is the Senr Culture Edor at He liv Los Angel. Rowlg first clared that Alb Percival Wulic Brian Dumbledore, Hogwarts headmaster and half-moon-spectacle enthiast, was gay.

" Below, EW breaks down the Harry Potter anchise's long history of alludg to Dumbledore's orientatn, whout actually pictg him as gay on screen.

Pictur October 2007: Rowlg reveals Dumbledore is gay The thor appeared at Carnegie Hall 2007 to answer fan qutns after the publitn of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. When asked whether Dumbledore had ever found love, Rowlg rpond that she "always thought of Dumbledore as gay.

She also said that she asked the Harry Potter filmmakers to lete a le the Half-Blood Prce movie where Dumbledore remisc about a girl he once knew: "I had to wre a ltle note the marg and sli along to the scriptwrer: 'Dumbledore's gay!

'" March 2015: Rowlg rponds to a fan who says they "uldn't see" Dumbledore as a gay man Years later, Rowlg ntued to reerate Dumbledore's sexual orientatn terviews and onle. When a Twter er told her they uldn't "see [Dumbledore] that way, " Rowlg replied, "Maybe bee gay people jt look like… people?

Her first and perhaps most well-known foray to this revisnism was her assertn that Dumbledore, Harry’s beloved schoolmaster, was gay.