Is Dumbledore gay? Why J.K. Rowlg's ntual LGBT character revisnism the 'Fantastic Beast' anchise is gettg old for Harry Potter fans
Contents:
- IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? WHY J.K. ROWLG'S NTUAL CHARACTER REVISNISM IS GETTG OLD
- J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY
- IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED
IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? WHY J.K. ROWLG'S NTUAL CHARACTER REVISNISM IS GETTG OLD
* dumbledore gay retcon *
RELATED: "Fantastic Beasts 3" censors gay storyle for Che release. In an appearance at Carnegie Hall 2007, when asked if Alb Dumbledore, the wizard headmaster and hero Harry Potter's nfidant, ever fell love — spe champng love, he's alone the story, partnerls — Rowlg said: "I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. You n be gay and fd love (Did the wrer know that?
He's a safe, non-threateng ia of what a gay person is, the gay bt iend trope, headmaster-style. There's no reason for Dumbledore to hi himself away forever, except for the homophobia of his thor.
Rowlg’s nfirmatn that Dumbledore was gay was sentially what set off her hab of retnng and rewrg her work after the fact. 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.
J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY
That he's gay??? "I love so much how they're handlg Dumbledore beg gay... " "I always saw Dumbledore as gay, " Rowlg said rponse to a fan qutn about Dumbledore's love life.
But anyway, back to the gay thg - addn to not affectg the plot, I don't believe is "woke panrg" eher. It was way before the whole woke movement uprisg - but a mon misnceptn spread by Ben Shapiro and is that JKR "ved" to crowds askg 'why no gays hp'. Rowlg first clared that Alb Percival Wulic Brian Dumbledore, Hogwarts headmaster and half-moon-spectacle enthiast, was gay.
IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED
"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. " 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. But by the time the first “Fantastic Beasts” film arrived, gay marriage was legal both untri and society was shiftg leftward.