Harry Potter characters gay: J.K. Rowlg nfirms Dumbledore, Grlwald, others are gay, fans angry they don't intify this way the books and movi - CBS News

Contents:

• WAS GRLWALD GAY?
• J.K. ROWLG WANTS YOU TO KNOW HOW GAY DUMBLEDORE REALLY WAS
• JK ROWLG IS FACG A BACKLASH OVER THE DUMBLEDORE/GRLWALD GAY RELATNSHIP REVEAL
• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED
• J.K. ROWLG HAS MORE TO SAY ABOUT THE “SEXUAL DIMENSN” OF DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD“THEIR RELATNSHIP WAS CREDIBLY TENSE,” SAYS THE HARRY POTTER THOR.BY YOHANA DTAMARCH 14, 2019COURTY OF WARNER BROS. PICTUR.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIT’S NEVER BEEN FEATURED BOOKS OR MOVI ABOUT THE WIZARDG WORLD, BUT J.K. ROWLG PROMIS THAT THERE WAS “A SEXUAL DIMENSN” TO ALB DUMBLEDORE AND GELLERT GRLWALD’S RELATNSHIP. TRANSLATN FOR THE NON-HARRY POTTER SET: DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD ARE BOTH WIZARDS TRODUCED THE ORIGAL ROWLG BOOKS; ROWLG REVEALED AFTER PUBLISHG HER SERI THAT DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY, AND VERY MUCH LOVE WH GRLWALD. WHEN THE PREQUEL FILM FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD ME OUT, MANY HOPED THAT THERE WOULD BE AT LEAST ONE SCENE HIGHLIGHTG THE ROMANTIC SI OF THEIR RELATNSHIP. THOSE DREAMS WERE QUICKLY DASHED. YET THE MENTARY TRACK CLUD ON THE BLU-RAY AND DVD RELEASE OF THE FILM, ROWLG ASSUR FANS THAT THEIR “RELATNSHIP WAS CREDIBLY TENSE.”“IT WAS PASSNATE, AND WAS A LOVE RELATNSHIP,” SHE SAID OF THE CHARACTERS (PLAYED ON-SCREEN BY JU LAW AND JOHNNY DEPP). “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. YOU N’T KNOW, YOU N BELIEVE YOU KNOW.”YOU N HEAR HER REMARKS AT THE 6:49 MARK THE VIO BELOW.SHE ADD THAT SHE PERSONALLY WAS “LS TERTED THE SEXUAL SI, THOUGH I BELIEVE THERE IS A SEXUAL DIMENSN TO THIS RELATNSHIP, THAN I AM THE SENSE OF THE EMOTNS THEY FELT FOR EACH OTHER, WHICH ULTIMATELY IS THE MOST FASCATG THG ABOUT ALL HUMAN RELATNSHIPS.”DIRECTOR DAVID YAT ALSO WEIGHED . “I WAS VERY NSC OF WANTG TO TRY TO SUGGT THAT DUMBLEDORE STILL HELD THIS AFFECTN FOR GRLWALD,” HE SAID ON THE MENTARY TRACK. “THERE WAS NOT JT REGRET, BUT THERE WAS STILL A LOVE THAT EXISTED BETWEEN THE TWO MEN.”ALAS, THERE WERE ULTIMATELY NO SCEN THE SEND FANTASTIC BEASTS FILM THAT EXPLICLY, OR EVEN VAGUELY, HTED AT THE DUO’S PAST ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP. THOUGH THE MOVIE WENT ON TO EARN $653 LN WORLDWI, CRICS THUMBED DOWN, POTG OUT NOT ONLY THE FILM’S CREDIBLY CLUMSY PLOT BUT ALSO THE WAY UPEND SO MUCH OF THE POTTER WORLD’S SET LORE.MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— 10 UNNIABLE FACTS ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON’S SEXUAL ABE ALLEGATNS— THE NEW HBO—AND S G BATTLE WH NETFLIX— CAPTA MARVEL IS A PERD PIECE, A SPACE ADVENTURE, AND AN ATTEMPT AT FEMIST FILMMAKG—AND, OUR CRIC WR, MOSTLY SUCCEEDS— THOUGHT BORAT WAS DARG? WA UNTIL YOU SEE DANGERO WORLD OF COMEDYLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.SEE BR MARLG’S HIGH-FASHN OA: PART II LOOK1 / 9CHEVRONCHEVRONOLIVIA BEE/NETFLIXMOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINYOHANA DTA
• DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD FALLY GET THEIR GAY MOMENT FANTASTIC BEASTS 3
• EZRA MILLER REVEALS HOW DUMBLEDORE IS 'EXPLICLY GAY' 'FANTASTIC BEASTS 2'
• FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD AND DUMBLEDORE’S VEXG SEXUALYAS EXPECTED, THE FILM ALLUS TO DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S ROMANTIC PAST THROUGH HEAVY-HAND IMPLITN.BY LRA BRADLEYNOVEMBER 15, 2018COURTY OF WARNER BROS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS FOR FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD.OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, PROPERTI ACROSS JT ABOUT EVERY GENRE OF FILM AND TELEVISN HAVE BEEN LLED OUT FOR DMMG UP TERT BY TOUTG THE PRENCE OF QUEER OR QUEER-D CHARACTERS, ONLY TO WHIFF THE PROJECTS THEMSELV BY ONLY NODDG VAGUELY TOWARD THE SEXUALI OF THOSE CHARACTERS—AND RENRG THEM VIRTUALLY IRRELEVANT. THE TREND MAY HAVE REACHED S ZENH WHEN BILL CONDON, WHO DIRECTED THE 2017 LIVE-ACTN VERSN OF BETY AND THE BEAST, HYPED THE MOVIE BY SAYG A PRE-RELEASE TERVIEW THAT WOULD CLU AN “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT”—WHICH END UP BEG A BRIEF SCENE WHICH JOSH GAD DANCED WH ANOTHER MAN.MANY A NIZEN OF HARRY POTTERDOM HAD HIGHER HOP FOR THIS WEEK’S FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD. THE ENSEMBLE FILM VOLV A CHARACTER, ALB DUMBLEDORE, WHOM POTTER VENTOR J.K. ROWLG CLARED TO BE GAY, RIGHT AFTER WRAPPG THE SEVEN-BOOK SERI. (IT WAS ONLY THE FIRST OF MANY EX POST FACTO EDS AND ADDNS SHE WOULD EVENTUALLY MAKE TO HER MEGA-POPULAR ANCHISE.) EVEN AFTER NEWS BROKE THAT DUMBLEDORE AND HIS FORMER LOVER, GELLERT GRLWALD, WOULD NOT BE “EXPLICLY” GAY THE FILM, A QUTN HAS LGERED ABOUT HOW, EXACTLY, THE MOVIE WOULD ADDRS THE SUBJECT.DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY NEVER PLAYED AN EXPLIC ROLE THE BOOK SERI, EHER—BUT THE FANTASTIC BEASTS ANCHISE ST S GAZE TOWARD DUMBLEDORE AND HIS OLD FLAME GRLWALD’S PAST, GIVG ROWLG (WHO WR THE SCRIPTS FOR THE FANTASTIC BEASTS FILMS) AND DIRECTOR DAVID YAT A CHANCE TO RPORATE THAT FOOTNOTE TO THIS FICTNAL WORLD’S NON. BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT THE FILM SELF WOUND UP DOG. THROUGHOUT THE CRIM OF GRLWALD, DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S BOND IS SCRIBED, SO MANY WORDS, AS “LIKE BROTHERS, ONLY CLOSER”—ALL LONGG LOOKS AND BLOOD PACTS, LI OF ANY REAL ROMANCE.THOUGH THE SEND FANTASTIC BEASTS MOVIE HAS TIME FOR MULTIPLE CHARACTERS AND SUBPLOTS—TOO MANY, FACT!—THERE ARE ONLY A FEW FLEETG MOMENTS WHICH THE FILM DIRECTLY ADDRS DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S PAST. THE FIRST AS AN AUROR TRI TO NVCE DUMBLEDORE TO HELP TAKE GRLWALD DOWN. WHEN DUMBLEDORE EXPRS RELUCTANCE, THE OFFICER ASKS IF “THIS” IS THE REASON—STG A SPELL THAT SHOWS A SHADOWY YOUNG DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD LOOKG AT ONE ANOTHER. THE TWO WERE LIKE BROTHERS, HE SAYS. DUMBLEDORE’S REPLY? “WE WERE CLOSER THAN BROTHERS.” IN ANOTHER, LATER FLASHBACK, THE TWO ARE SHOWN EXECUTG A BLOOD PACT— LI OF KISSG OR SHOWG ANY OTHER SORT OF OUTWARD AFFECTN. IN PERHAPS THE MOST EXPLIC MOMENT THE ENTIRE FILM, DUMBLEDORE SE GRLWALD’S IMAGE THE MIRROR OF ERISED. AS DUMBLEDORE WOULD LATER TELL HARRY POTTER, THE MIRROR “SHOWS NOTHG MORE OR LS THEN THE EPT AND MOST SPERATE SIR OF ONE’S HEART.”THIS RELIANCE ON IMPLITN IS TRATG, PERHAPS, BUT UNRSTANDABLE; GIANT, FAY-IENDLY TENTPOLE FILMS DON’T TEND TO GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO RPORATE NTENT THAT CERTA MOGRAPHICS MIGHT FD NTROVERSIAL. THE WORST PART, THOUGH, IS THAT THE FILM TRI TO HAVE S KE AND EAT TOO. IT THROWS FANS A FEW BON BY ALLUDG TO DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S RELATNSHIP, YET DUMBLEDORE SEEMS UNWILLG OR UNABLE TO ADM THAT SAID RELATNSHIP WAS ROMANTIC. EVEN MORE PUZZLGLY, DUMBLEDORE NEVER EXPLAS WHY HE N’T BE HONT ABOUT THAT ASPECT OF HIS BOND WH GRLWALD.ONE HAS TO ASSUME THAT HOMOPHOBIA RAN RAMPANT THE WIZARDG WORLD THE 1920S, JT AS DID THE HUMAN WORLD—BUT THE NCEPT OF ANTI-GAY SENTIMENT IS AS VAGUE THE FILM AS THE NCEPT OF HOMOSEXUALY. IT’S REMISCENT OF LAST YEAR’S THE GREATT SHOWMAN, ANOTHER PERD PIECE THAT NSISTENTLY ALLUS TO THE DARK FORC KEEPG ZENDAYA’S CHARACTER AND ZAC EON’S CHARACTER APART WHOUT EVER DIRECTLY MENTNG RACISM. AS A RULT, THE RELATNSHIP RGS HOLLOW—LIKE A PLOT VICE OR A NARRATIVE NOVELTY SERTED PURELY SO THE FILM ULD CHECK OFF A BOX THE LEAST OFFENSIVE WAY.IT’S EASY TO IMAGE HOW THIS STORY LE ULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED DIFFERENTLY. EVEN ONE MORE WELL-PLACED FLASHBACK WOULD HAVE MA ALL THE DIFFERENCE—AND IF HAD FOCED ON GRLWALD, ULD EVEN HAVE ADD MUCH-NEED DIMENSN TO A CHARACTER WHO FEELS TOO MUCH LIKE A WHE-HAIRED VOLMORT RETREAD. AND WHILE N MAKE SENSE FOR CHARACTERS HISTORIL FICTN TO LIVE SI THE CLOSET, WOULD BE NICE TO AT LEAST SEE THEIR OPPRSN ACKNOWLEDGED. IF DUMBLEDORE HAD TO SUPPRS THIS PART OF HIS LIFE FOR S, ONE WOULD THK THAT WOULD PROVI SOME TERTG AVENU ON WHICH THE FILM ULD TRAVEL. BUT SEEMS FANTASTIC BEASTS WOULD RATHER EXPLORE CHARACTER VELOPMENT THROUGH AN EXPLIBLE ALTERNATIVE: MAKG EZRA MILLER DUMBLEDORE’S LONG-LOST SECRET BROTHER STEAD.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISLRA BRADLEY
• SO, HOW GAY IS ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ EXACTLY?

WAS GRLWALD GAY?

In another terview after sayg Dumbledore was gay, JKR seems to state that Grlwald didn't feel the same way, but would have likely ed Dumbledore's feelgs to manipulate him. Not reciprotg Dumbledore’s feelgs don’t nfirm that Grlwald wasn’t gay.

Wh the rmatn we have, ’s not clear whether Grlwald was gay, straight, or asexual and not terted anyone (like the Dark Lord).

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

"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. “Not explicly, ” Yat replied when asked if the film mak clear that Dumbledore is gay.

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

"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.

IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED

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 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.

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... 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.

J.K. ROWLG HAS MORE TO SAY ABOUT THE “SEXUAL DIMENSN” OF DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD“THEIR RELATNSHIP WAS CREDIBLY TENSE,” SAYS THE HARRY POTTER THOR.BY YOHANA DTAMARCH 14, 2019COURTY OF WARNER BROS. PICTUR.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIT’S NEVER BEEN FEATURED BOOKS OR MOVI ABOUT THE WIZARDG WORLD, BUT J.K. ROWLG PROMIS THAT THERE WAS “A SEXUAL DIMENSN” TO ALB DUMBLEDORE AND GELLERT GRLWALD’S RELATNSHIP. TRANSLATN FOR THE NON-HARRY POTTER SET: DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD ARE BOTH WIZARDS TRODUCED THE ORIGAL ROWLG BOOKS; ROWLG REVEALED AFTER PUBLISHG HER SERI THAT DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY, AND VERY MUCH LOVE WH GRLWALD. WHEN THE PREQUEL FILM FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD ME OUT, MANY HOPED THAT THERE WOULD BE AT LEAST ONE SCENE HIGHLIGHTG THE ROMANTIC SI OF THEIR RELATNSHIP. THOSE DREAMS WERE QUICKLY DASHED. YET THE MENTARY TRACK CLUD ON THE BLU-RAY AND DVD RELEASE OF THE FILM, ROWLG ASSUR FANS THAT THEIR “RELATNSHIP WAS CREDIBLY TENSE.”“IT WAS PASSNATE, AND WAS A LOVE RELATNSHIP,” SHE SAID OF THE CHARACTERS (PLAYED ON-SCREEN BY JU LAW AND JOHNNY DEPP). “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. YOU N’T KNOW, YOU N BELIEVE YOU KNOW.”YOU N HEAR HER REMARKS AT THE 6:49 MARK THE VIO BELOW.SHE ADD THAT SHE PERSONALLY WAS “LS TERTED THE SEXUAL SI, THOUGH I BELIEVE THERE IS A SEXUAL DIMENSN TO THIS RELATNSHIP, THAN I AM THE SENSE OF THE EMOTNS THEY FELT FOR EACH OTHER, WHICH ULTIMATELY IS THE MOST FASCATG THG ABOUT ALL HUMAN RELATNSHIPS.”DIRECTOR DAVID YAT ALSO WEIGHED . “I WAS VERY NSC OF WANTG TO TRY TO SUGGT THAT DUMBLEDORE STILL HELD THIS AFFECTN FOR GRLWALD,” HE SAID ON THE MENTARY TRACK. “THERE WAS NOT JT REGRET, BUT THERE WAS STILL A LOVE THAT EXISTED BETWEEN THE TWO MEN.”ALAS, THERE WERE ULTIMATELY NO SCEN THE SEND FANTASTIC BEASTS FILM THAT EXPLICLY, OR EVEN VAGUELY, HTED AT THE DUO’S PAST ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP. THOUGH THE MOVIE WENT ON TO EARN $653 LN WORLDWI, CRICS THUMBED DOWN, POTG OUT NOT ONLY THE FILM’S CREDIBLY CLUMSY PLOT BUT ALSO THE WAY UPEND SO MUCH OF THE POTTER WORLD’S SET LORE.MORE GREAT STORI OM VANY FAIR— 10 UNNIABLE FACTS ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON’S SEXUAL ABE ALLEGATNS— THE NEW HBO—AND S G BATTLE WH NETFLIX— CAPTA MARVEL IS A PERD PIECE, A SPACE ADVENTURE, AND AN ATTEMPT AT FEMIST FILMMAKG—AND, OUR CRIC WR, MOSTLY SUCCEEDS— THOUGHT BORAT WAS DARG? WA UNTIL YOU SEE DANGERO WORLD OF COMEDYLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.SEE BR MARLG’S HIGH-FASHN OA: PART II LOOK1 / 9CHEVRONCHEVRONOLIVIA BEE/NETFLIXMOST POPULARSOUND OF FREEDOM: THE WILD TE STORY BEHD 2023’S MOST CONTROVERSIAL FILMBY EVE BATEYTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISRUTH HANDLER: SEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM AND THE ORIG OF BARBIEBY ANTHONY BREZNINYOHANA DTA

“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. 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.

DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD FALLY GET THEIR GAY MOMENT FANTASTIC BEASTS 3

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

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.

EZRA MILLER REVEALS HOW DUMBLEDORE IS 'EXPLICLY GAY' 'FANTASTIC BEASTS 2'

Why Fantastic Beasts Don't Explicly Confirm That Dumbledore Is Gay.

FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD AND DUMBLEDORE’S VEXG SEXUALYAS EXPECTED, THE FILM ALLUS TO DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S ROMANTIC PAST THROUGH HEAVY-HAND IMPLITN.BY LRA BRADLEYNOVEMBER 15, 2018COURTY OF WARNER BROS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS FOR FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD.OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, PROPERTI ACROSS JT ABOUT EVERY GENRE OF FILM AND TELEVISN HAVE BEEN LLED OUT FOR DMMG UP TERT BY TOUTG THE PRENCE OF QUEER OR QUEER-D CHARACTERS, ONLY TO WHIFF THE PROJECTS THEMSELV BY ONLY NODDG VAGUELY TOWARD THE SEXUALI OF THOSE CHARACTERS—AND RENRG THEM VIRTUALLY IRRELEVANT. THE TREND MAY HAVE REACHED S ZENH WHEN BILL CONDON, WHO DIRECTED THE 2017 LIVE-ACTN VERSN OF BETY AND THE BEAST, HYPED THE MOVIE BY SAYG A PRE-RELEASE TERVIEW THAT WOULD CLU AN “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT”—WHICH END UP BEG A BRIEF SCENE WHICH JOSH GAD DANCED WH ANOTHER MAN.MANY A NIZEN OF HARRY POTTERDOM HAD HIGHER HOP FOR THIS WEEK’S FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD. THE ENSEMBLE FILM VOLV A CHARACTER, ALB DUMBLEDORE, WHOM POTTER VENTOR J.K. ROWLG CLARED TO BE GAY, RIGHT AFTER WRAPPG THE SEVEN-BOOK SERI. (IT WAS ONLY THE FIRST OF MANY EX POST FACTO EDS AND ADDNS SHE WOULD EVENTUALLY MAKE TO HER MEGA-POPULAR ANCHISE.) EVEN AFTER NEWS BROKE THAT DUMBLEDORE AND HIS FORMER LOVER, GELLERT GRLWALD, WOULD NOT BE “EXPLICLY” GAY THE FILM, A QUTN HAS LGERED ABOUT HOW, EXACTLY, THE MOVIE WOULD ADDRS THE SUBJECT.DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY NEVER PLAYED AN EXPLIC ROLE THE BOOK SERI, EHER—BUT THE FANTASTIC BEASTS ANCHISE ST S GAZE TOWARD DUMBLEDORE AND HIS OLD FLAME GRLWALD’S PAST, GIVG ROWLG (WHO WR THE SCRIPTS FOR THE FANTASTIC BEASTS FILMS) AND DIRECTOR DAVID YAT A CHANCE TO RPORATE THAT FOOTNOTE TO THIS FICTNAL WORLD’S NON. BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT THE FILM SELF WOUND UP DOG. THROUGHOUT THE CRIM OF GRLWALD, DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S BOND IS SCRIBED, SO MANY WORDS, AS “LIKE BROTHERS, ONLY CLOSER”—ALL LONGG LOOKS AND BLOOD PACTS, LI OF ANY REAL ROMANCE.THOUGH THE SEND FANTASTIC BEASTS MOVIE HAS TIME FOR MULTIPLE CHARACTERS AND SUBPLOTS—TOO MANY, FACT!—THERE ARE ONLY A FEW FLEETG MOMENTS WHICH THE FILM DIRECTLY ADDRS DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S PAST. THE FIRST AS AN AUROR TRI TO NVCE DUMBLEDORE TO HELP TAKE GRLWALD DOWN. WHEN DUMBLEDORE EXPRS RELUCTANCE, THE OFFICER ASKS IF “THIS” IS THE REASON—STG A SPELL THAT SHOWS A SHADOWY YOUNG DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD LOOKG AT ONE ANOTHER. THE TWO WERE LIKE BROTHERS, HE SAYS. DUMBLEDORE’S REPLY? “WE WERE CLOSER THAN BROTHERS.” IN ANOTHER, LATER FLASHBACK, THE TWO ARE SHOWN EXECUTG A BLOOD PACT— LI OF KISSG OR SHOWG ANY OTHER SORT OF OUTWARD AFFECTN. IN PERHAPS THE MOST EXPLIC MOMENT THE ENTIRE FILM, DUMBLEDORE SE GRLWALD’S IMAGE THE MIRROR OF ERISED. AS DUMBLEDORE WOULD LATER TELL HARRY POTTER, THE MIRROR “SHOWS NOTHG MORE OR LS THEN THE EPT AND MOST SPERATE SIR OF ONE’S HEART.”THIS RELIANCE ON IMPLITN IS TRATG, PERHAPS, BUT UNRSTANDABLE; GIANT, FAY-IENDLY TENTPOLE FILMS DON’T TEND TO GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO RPORATE NTENT THAT CERTA MOGRAPHICS MIGHT FD NTROVERSIAL. THE WORST PART, THOUGH, IS THAT THE FILM TRI TO HAVE S KE AND EAT TOO. IT THROWS FANS A FEW BON BY ALLUDG TO DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S RELATNSHIP, YET DUMBLEDORE SEEMS UNWILLG OR UNABLE TO ADM THAT SAID RELATNSHIP WAS ROMANTIC. EVEN MORE PUZZLGLY, DUMBLEDORE NEVER EXPLAS WHY HE N’T BE HONT ABOUT THAT ASPECT OF HIS BOND WH GRLWALD.ONE HAS TO ASSUME THAT HOMOPHOBIA RAN RAMPANT THE WIZARDG WORLD THE 1920S, JT AS DID THE HUMAN WORLD—BUT THE NCEPT OF ANTI-GAY SENTIMENT IS AS VAGUE THE FILM AS THE NCEPT OF HOMOSEXUALY. IT’S REMISCENT OF LAST YEAR’S THE GREATT SHOWMAN, ANOTHER PERD PIECE THAT NSISTENTLY ALLUS TO THE DARK FORC KEEPG ZENDAYA’S CHARACTER AND ZAC EON’S CHARACTER APART WHOUT EVER DIRECTLY MENTNG RACISM. AS A RULT, THE RELATNSHIP RGS HOLLOW—LIKE A PLOT VICE OR A NARRATIVE NOVELTY SERTED PURELY SO THE FILM ULD CHECK OFF A BOX THE LEAST OFFENSIVE WAY.IT’S EASY TO IMAGE HOW THIS STORY LE ULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED DIFFERENTLY. EVEN ONE MORE WELL-PLACED FLASHBACK WOULD HAVE MA ALL THE DIFFERENCE—AND IF HAD FOCED ON GRLWALD, ULD EVEN HAVE ADD MUCH-NEED DIMENSN TO A CHARACTER WHO FEELS TOO MUCH LIKE A WHE-HAIRED VOLMORT RETREAD. AND WHILE N MAKE SENSE FOR CHARACTERS HISTORIL FICTN TO LIVE SI THE CLOSET, WOULD BE NICE TO AT LEAST SEE THEIR OPPRSN ACKNOWLEDGED. IF DUMBLEDORE HAD TO SUPPRS THIS PART OF HIS LIFE FOR S, ONE WOULD THK THAT WOULD PROVI SOME TERTG AVENU ON WHICH THE FILM ULD TRAVEL. BUT SEEMS FANTASTIC BEASTS WOULD RATHER EXPLORE CHARACTER VELOPMENT THROUGH AN EXPLIBLE ALTERNATIVE: MAKG EZRA MILLER DUMBLEDORE’S LONG-LOST SECRET BROTHER STEAD.MOST POPULARWH MATRO, LEONARD BERNSTE’S LEGACY AND LOV FALLY H THE BIG SCREENBY REBEC FORDWELE TO SALTBURN’S TWISTED GOTHIC TALEBY REBEC FORD25 PERFECT TV EPISOS FROM THE LAST 25 YEARSBY HILLARY BISLRA BRADLEY

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 . 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.

SO, HOW GAY IS ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ EXACTLY?

The answer to "is Dumbledore gay? The first time Dumbledore beg gay is explicly mentned is this terview wh JKR.

JKR: My tthful answer to you… I always thought of Dumbledore as gay.