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Contents:
- HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD HTS AT GAY RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ALB SEVES POTTER AND SRPI MALFOY
- HARRY POTTER AND THE POSSIBLE QUEERBAG: WHY FANS ARE MAD OVER A LACK OF GAY ROMANCE
- 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
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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? 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. 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.
“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.
HARRY POTTER AND THE POSSIBLE QUEERBAG: WHY FANS ARE MAD OVER A LACK OF GAY ROMANCE
“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.
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD IS A GAY LOVE STORY, DON'T @ ME
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.