Harry Potter and the Cursed Child hts at gay relatnship between Alb Seves... - PopBuzz

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• 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
• FEATURED STORI

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

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? Yet, once was revealed at Rad Cy Mic Hall, that Dumbledore was fact gay, ma more sense that perhaps McGonagall was gay as well.

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

While Dra and Harry have often been embraced fanfictn as a gay uple, Alb and Srpi act much more like a uple on the stage than their father's ever did. 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.

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“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. “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.

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”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.