Harry Potter and the Possible Queerbag: why fans are mad over a lack of gay romance | Harry Potter | The Guardian

Contents:

• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED
• HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD HTS AT GAY RELATNSHIP BETWEEN ALB SEVES POTTER AND SRPI MALFOY
• SEVEN CLU THAT ‘POTTER’S’ DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY
• J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY
• 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
• THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE STILL N'T TRANSLATE S GAY SUBTEXT TO TEXT. IT'S A PROBLEM.

IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED

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.

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

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

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. When lookg at the qutn "is Dumbledore gay?, " there is a new chance to answer .

SEVEN CLU THAT ‘POTTER’S’ DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY

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.

The answer to "is Dumbledore gay? 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? 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??? "I love so much how they're handlg Dumbledore beg gay...

J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY

" "I always saw Dumbledore as gay, " Rowlg said rponse to a fan qutn about Dumbledore's love life. Rowlg announced she had always imaged one of the ma characters the “Harry Potter” seri -- Alb Dumbledore -- to be gay.

Slack is credibly fluent “Potter” textual analysis, and we knew that if anyone uld predict Rowlg’s curveball, would be COVERAGE: Harry PotterSpeakg om his home Boston, Slack said he hadn’t gused that Dumbledore was gay, but hdsight, he was able to pot to specific character tras of the Hogwarts headmaster that might have dited his sexual orientatn. Below he tells seven textual clu that Dumbledore was gay. And, of urse, a popular thought among many scholars is that the matro Leonardo was gay.

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

The fact that so few of realized he was gay. “No matter how many ‘clu’ I n put down that Dumbledore was gay, no matter how many lns of people have read the books aga and aga, Rowlg surprised even the most die-hard fans wh the announcement that Dumbledore was gay. And the end, the fact that we never would have gused is what mak Dumbledore beg gay so real.

So many tim I have enuntered iends who are gay that I never would have predicted. 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

”) 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.