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

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• DANIEL RADCLIFFE LEAV 'POTTER' THE PAST WH GAY LOVE SCENE NEW FILM
• WARNER BROS. CENSORS GAY DIALOGUE HARRY POTTER MOVIE FOR CHA RELEASE
• THE HERENT HOMOPHOBIA OF THE HARRY POTTER SERIA LOOK TO THE GAY REPRENTATN (OR UTTER LACK THEREOF) ACROSS THE HARRY POTTER ANCHISE.ANDRE·FOLLOW12 M READ·JUL 6, 2017--6LISTENSHAREI FEEL LIKE EVERY TIME I TALK ABOUT HARRY POTTER I HAVE TO START THE NVERSATN WH, “I LOVE HARRY POTTER, BUT…” THE WAY THAT ONE TALKS ABOUT A RELATIVE WHO ED TO GET GOOD BIRTHDAY GIFTS BUT NOW WE REALIZE ARE A BIGOTED PIECE OF SH. IT’S A TOO ACCURATE PARISON, SCE I’VE ALWAYS FELT THAT THIS SERI PLAYED AS BIG OF A PART MY CHILDHOOD AS MY FAY DID. AND, JT LIKE WH MANY OF MY RELATIV, MY RELATNSHIP WH THE HARRY POTTER SERI IS STRAED BY THE FACT THAT I’M A WOMAN WHO LIK WOMEN, AND JKR, LIKE THOSE SUBTLY AND NOT SO SUBTLY HOMOPHOBIC FAY MEMBERS, DON’T SEEM TO LIKE QUEER PEOPLE VERY MUCH.TO BE FAIR, JOANNE K ROWLG DON’T SEEM TO LIKE ABE VICTIMS, FAT PEOPLE, PEOPLE OF LOR OR THE MENTALLY ILL VERY MUCH EHER, BUT I DIGRS.I HAVE A HARRY POTTER TATTOO. I OWN A BUNCH OF HARRY POTTER MERCHANDISG, AND THE BOOKS, AND A UPLE MOVI, AND SOME OF THE VIO GAM TOO. AND YET, MY RELATNSHIP WH THIS SERI THAT HAS BEEN SO TEGRAL TO MY LIFE SCE I WAS SIX YEARS OLD IS NOW TATED BY BTERNS. THE SEMI-RECENT PREMIERE OF THE FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FD THEM MOVIE HAS ONLY CREASED THIS RENTMENT.I THK THIS IS AS GOOD A TIME AS ANY TO REVIEW THE HOMOPHOBIA THAT’S PLAGUED THE WORLD-BUILDG OF THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE OM, AT THE VERY LEAST, 1999, THE YEAR HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN WAS RELEASED.REM LUP, FENRIR GREYBACK AND PREDATORY GAYSA SCREENP OF REM LUP AS PORTRAYED THE HARRY POTTER MOVI.THOUGH THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, BOTH BEE OF THE BLATANT TENT EASILY UGHT BY CRICS WHEN THE THIRD BOOK OF THE HARRY POTTER SERI AND OM WHAT JKR HAS REPEATEDLY SAID TERVIEWS FOR OVER A . YET, WH SEVENTEEN YEARS WORTH OF CHANC TO REALIZE JT HOW HOMOPHOBIC THE METAPHOR IS, JKR STILL SISTS THAT LYNTHROPY IS A METAPHOR FOR AIDS. IN A RECENTLY PUBLISHED E-BOOK (“SHORT STORI FROM HOGWARTS OF HEROISM, HARDSHIP, AND DANGERO HOBBI”) SHE WR:“LUP’S NDN OF LYNTHROPY WAS A METAPHOR FOR THOSE ILLNS THAT RRY A STIGMA, LIKE HIV AND AIDS,” ROWLG WR. “ALL KDS OF SUPERSTNS SEEM TO SURROUND BLOOD-BORNE NDNS, PROBABLY DUE TO TABOOS SURROUNDG BLOOD SELF. THE WIZARDG MUNY IS AS PRONE TO HYSTERIA AND PREJUDICE AS THE MUGGLE ONE, AND THE CHARACTER OF LUP GAVE ME A CHANCE TO EXAME THOSE ATTUS.”THE REAR MIGHT NOW ASK (AS MANY OF THOSE WHO SIST ON FENDG JKR’S CHARACTER HAVE), “HOW IS THIS HOMOPHOBIC?” WELL, ALL BEGS WH A LONG WHSTANDG URBAN MYTH THAT APPEARED THE LATE ’80S: THE “P PRICK ATTACKS” AND SIAR STORI.THE “P PICK ATTACKS” IS ONE OF THE NAM GIVEN TO AN URBAN LEGEND THAT SPREAD ACROSS MANY UNTRI, PRCIPALLY THE UK AND THE US, ABOUT EVIL HIV POSIVE QUEER PEOPLE (PARTICULARLY GAY MEN AND TRANS WOMEN) PURPOSEFULLY FECTG PEOPLE (PECIALLY CHILDREN) WH AIDS BY LEAVG FECTED NEEDL ON TRA/B/THEATER SEATS, PRICKG THEM ON THE STREET/PUBLIC TRANSPORTATN/CLUBS.WHAT DO THIS HAVE TO DO WH HARRY POTTER AND WEREWOLV? I QUOTE HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRCE:“FENRIR GREYBACK IS, PERHAPS, THE MOST SAVAGE WEREWOLF ALIVE TODAY. HE REGARDS AS HIS MISSN LIFE TO BE AND TO NTA­MATE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE; HE WANTS TO CREATE ENOUGH WERE­WOLV TO OVERE THE WIZARDS.VOLMORT HAS PROMISED HIM PREY RETURN FOR HIS SERVIC. GREYBACK SPECIALIS CHILDREN… BE THEM YOUNG, HE SAYS, AND RAISE THEM AWAY OM THEIR PARENTS, RAISE THEM TO HATE NORMAL WIZARDS.”DO THIS SOUND FAIAR? ANYTHG LIKE VLENT HOMOPHOB TALKG ABOUT GAY PEOPLE RPTG THE YOUTH AND EVIL HIV POSIVE QUEER PEOPLE G THE LIV OF NOCENT HETEROSEXUALS BY FECTG THEM?TO ADD TO THIS, THE FACT THAT THE FACE OF JKR’S UGLY, HOMOPHOBIC METAPHOR ABOUT HIV AND QUEERNS IS REM LUP, A STRAIGHT CHARACTER, ONLY ADDS TO THE IA OF “EVIL QUEER MAN FECTS NOCENT STRAIGHT CHILD”. (DURG A ST TERVIEW 2011, DAVID THEWLIS MENTED THAT JKR SAID THAT SHE ORIGALLY MEANT TO WRE HIM AS GAY BUT THEN “THE CHARACTER CHANGED AND FELL LOVE WH TONKS”, BUT I’M NOT GOG TO MENT ON THIS.)ALB DUMBLEDORE, CELIBATE GAY MEN AND THE TRAGEDY OF QUEER LOVEA PROMOTNAL STILL OF ALB DUMBLEDORE AS PORTRAYED THE MOVI.THE HOMOPHOBIA DON’T END HERE, THOUGH. UP UNTIL A UPLE YEARS AGO, THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE HAD AT LEAST EIGHT HUNDRED CHARACTERS. AT LEAST TWO HUNDRED OF THE CHARACTERS HAVE A NAME AND WE KNOW (OM THE BOOKS, MOVI, POTTERMORE, JKR’S TWTER OR OTHER SOURC OF NON TRIVIA) AT LEAST SOME BASIC RMATN ABOUT OVER A HUNDRED OF THEM. THIS NUMBER HAS, OF URSE, GROWN WH THE ADDN OF THE RECENT “CURSED CHILD” PLAY AND THE “FANTASTIC BEASTS” MOVIE, THOUGH I DON’T HAVE AN UPDATED HEADUNT AT HAND.NOW, OUT OF ALL THE CHARACTERS, THERE IS ONLY ONE WHO IS NFIRMED AS GAY (OR OTHERWISE NOT HETEROSEXUAL), AND THAT CHARACTER IS ALB DUMBLEDORE, WHO HAS YET TO BE EXPLICED AS GAY NON AND WAS ONLY REVEALED AS SUCH DURG AN TERVIEW 2007. THOUGH THE REVEAL WAS MA AFTER THE END OF THE BOOK SERI BUT BEFORE THE SIXTH MOVIE OF THE SERI WAS PUBLISHED, JKR AND THE PEOPLE AT WARNER BROS NEVER TOOK THE CHANCE TO EXPLIC DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY ANY OF THE MOVIE ADAPTATNS THAT ME AFTER .SHE TOOK DIENCE QUTNS AND WAS ASKED IF DUMBLEDORE FOUND “TE LOVE”.“DUMBLEDORE IS GAY,” SHE SAID, ADDG HE WAS SMTEN WH RIVAL GELLERT GRLWALD, WHO HE BEAT A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD WIZARDS LONG AGO.THE DIENCE GASPED, THEN APPLD. “I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU EARLIER IF I KNEW WOULD MAKE YOU SO HAPPY,” SHE SAID. “FALLG LOVE N BLD TO AN EXTENT,” SHE ADD, SAYG DUMBLEDORE WAS “HORRIBLY, TERRIBLY LET DOWN” AND HIS LOVE FOR GRLWALD WAS HIS “GREAT TRAGEDY”.IN OTHER TERVIEWS ACROSS THE YEARS, SHE’S CLARIFIED THAT GRLWALD NEVER RRPOND DUMBLEDORE’S FEELGS, BUT HE DID E THEM TO HIS OWN ADVANTAGE.HOW EXACTLY IS THIS HOMOPHOBIC, A REAR MIGHT (AGA) ASK. WELL, TO BEG WH, KNOWG THAT AT LEAST TEN PERCENT OF THE POPULATN OF EARTH IS SOME WAY ATTRACTED TO THEIR OWN GENR, ’S A STATISTIL IMPROBABILY THAT ONLY ONE EIGHT HUNDRED CHARACTERS IS GAY. JT FOR THE SAKE OF REALISM, AT LEAST TEN OF THE NAMED CHARACTERS WE KNOW SOME SORT OF “TRIVIA” ABOUT SHOULD HAVE BEEN NFIRMED AS GAY, BISEXUAL, PANSEXUAL OR ANOTHER NON-STRAIGHT INTY. BUT THAT IS NOT ALL.QUOTG OM THIS ARTICLE:BY OUTG HIM AFTER HIS ATH, ROWLG EFFECTIVELY PLACED DUMBLEDORE WH THE LONGSTANDG, PROBLEMATIC “AD GAYS” TROPE, STEAD OF SHOWG HIM LIVG OUT HIS QUEER INTY — OR, EVEN BETTER, GIVG KIDS EXAMPL OF QUEER CHARACTERS HARRY’S OWN AGE THAT THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO MORE EFFECTIVELY RELATE TO THAN A 150-YEAR-OLD SOCK-LOVG SCHOOL PRCIPAL.DUMBLEDORE, AS A CHARACTER WH NON, IS A LONELY AND ECCENTRIC OLD MAN WHO HAS NEVER HAD ANY MEANGFUL ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS SAVE FOR HIS UNREQUED AS “TRAGIC” LOVE FOR A MAN WHO DIDN’T LOVE HIM BACK AND THAT ED DUMBLEDORE’S FEELGS TO HIS OWN ADVANTAGE. THAT’S THE ONLY GAY CHARACTER THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE: A MAN WHOSE ROMANTIC FEELGS FOR ANOTHER MAN RPTED HIM AND ALMOST DOOMED HIM, WHO WAS MANIPULATED BY THE MAN HE LOVED AND THEN HAD TO FIGHT HIM, AND WHO THEN SPENT A CENTURY ALONE.RA SKEETER’S UNTHORIZED BGRAPHY ULD HAVE BEEN A PERFECT WAY TO LET KNOWN, AT LEAST, OF DUMBLEDORE’S FEELGS FOR GRLWALD AND, IALLY, OF A LONG PASSED HBAND OR AT LEAST A UPLE MALE LOVERS THROUGH HIS LIFE. BUT THAT NEVER HAPPENED.THE CURSED CHILD AND QUEERBAG OVER QUEER REPRENTATNA PHOTO OF ALB AND SRPI AS PORTRAYED THE CURSED CHILD.THIS ULD AND SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO NVCE ANYONE THAT JKR AND THE HARRY POTTER ANCHISE DO NOT DO RIGHT BY S QUEER FANS, BUT THAT IS NOT ALL. THOUGH MY TENTN IS TO TALK ABOUT “FANTASTIC BEASTS”, I GOTTA MAKE A QUICK ASI.I HAVE NOT READ NOR SEEN THE “CURSED CHILD” PLAY, AND I DON’T PLAN ON , SO I’M ONLY GOG TO MENT ON BY QUOTG THIS EXCELLENT ARTICLE PUBLISHED VOX BY AJA ROMANO: “THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE STILL N’T TRANSLATE S GAY SUBTEXT TO TEXT. IT’S A PROBLEM.”THE IENDSHIP BETWEEN HARRY’S SON, ALB, AND DRA MALFOY’S SON, SRPI, THE PLAY HAS DRAWN MUCH MEDIA MENTARY THAT’S MCED FEW WORDS CRICIZG THE WAY THE SCRIPT SPENDS S TIME BUILDG EVINCE FOR A NONILLY QUEER RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO BOYS, ONLY TO BTALLY YANK AWAY AT THE END WH A FLIMSY “NO HOMO” EXCE.ALB/SRPI HAS BEEN A MAJOR FANDOM “SHIP,” OR THEORETIL ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP, SCE HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS WAS RELEASED, AND THORNE AND TIFFANY HAVE FILLED THEIR PLAY’S SCRIPT WH REFERENC TO THEIR POTENTIALLY QUEER RELATNSHIP. IN THE PLAY, THE TWO BOYS ARE UTTERLY VOTED TO EACH OTHER. THEY EXCHANGE LONG, SENSUAL HUGS. THEY’RE JEALO OF PETG RELATNSHIPS AND UNWILLG TO BE SEPARATED OM ONE ANOTHER. (…)THROUGHOUT CURSED CHILD, SEXUAL SUBTEXT HOVERS AT THE EDG OF ALB AND SRPI’ TERACTNS, AS THEY MAKE AWKWARD OVERTUR TO EXPLORG THEIR SEXUALY WH GIRLS. AGA AND AGA, THE POORLY WRTEN WOMEN OF THE PLAY ARE ED AS SHAMELS PROPS FOR THE GIANT, FLASHG “NO HOMO!” SIGN THAT THE PLAY HANGS OVER THE TWO BOYS’ HEADS. ALB AND SRPI’ TERT GIRLS SEEMS TO BE ADD AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT, WEDGED THROUGHOUT THE PLAY UNRVELOPED, UNNVCG MOMENTS.ROSE GRANGER-WEASLEY, THE DGHTER OF HERMNE AND RON, SHOWS UP THROUGHOUT CURSED CHILD TO LIVER PLOT EXPOSN AND SERVE AS A TARGET FOR SRPI’S ROMANTIC OVERTUR. AT THE END, WHOUT ANY VELOPMENT OF THEIR RELATNSHIP WHATSOEVER, SHE FALLY RPONDS SEMIPOSIVELY TO HIS FAILED ATTEMPTS TO ASK HER OUT. BY SELF, THIS IS A TROUBLG VERSN OF THE “WEAR THE GIRL DOWN” TROPE; UPLED WH THE PLAY’S HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXT, ’S A TRA WRECK.FANTASTIC BEASTS AND GIVG A PLATFORM TO HOMOPHOB
• IS HARRY POTTER GAY?
• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED

DANIEL RADCLIFFE LEAV 'POTTER' THE PAST WH GAY LOVE SCENE NEW FILM

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. "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 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.

WARNER BROS. CENSORS GAY DIALOGUE HARRY POTTER MOVIE FOR CHA RELEASE

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.

Rowlg first clared that Alb Dumbledore is gay, the new Fantastic Beasts movie has fally ma non. The Harry Potter thor first ma headl 2007 when she revealed that she "always thought of Dumbledore as gay, " speakg to fans at a post-publitn event for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

On one hand, 's surprisgly rehg to see a mastream tentpole movie wh a nonilly gay tle character — pecially one who acknowledg his sexualy on screen. But while the 24-year-old actor has nothg but good memori of his years as the boy wizard, his latt role as Beat poet Allen Gsberg "Kill Your Darlgs" plac him a universe far, far away om one thg, Gsberg (thor of "Howl" and other works) was gay, and at one pot the film, there is a loveSept. But while the 24-year-old actor has nothg but good memori of his years as the boy wizard, his latt role as Beat poet Allen Gsberg "Kill Your Darlgs" plac him a universe far, far away om one thg, Gsberg (thor of "Howl" and other works) was gay, and at one pot the film, there is a love scene.

THE HERENT HOMOPHOBIA OF THE HARRY POTTER SERIA LOOK TO THE GAY REPRENTATN (OR UTTER LACK THEREOF) ACROSS THE HARRY POTTER ANCHISE.ANDRE·FOLLOW12 M READ·JUL 6, 2017--6LISTENSHAREI FEEL LIKE EVERY TIME I TALK ABOUT HARRY POTTER I HAVE TO START THE NVERSATN WH, “I LOVE HARRY POTTER, BUT…” THE WAY THAT ONE TALKS ABOUT A RELATIVE WHO ED TO GET GOOD BIRTHDAY GIFTS BUT NOW WE REALIZE ARE A BIGOTED PIECE OF SH. IT’S A TOO ACCURATE PARISON, SCE I’VE ALWAYS FELT THAT THIS SERI PLAYED AS BIG OF A PART MY CHILDHOOD AS MY FAY DID. AND, JT LIKE WH MANY OF MY RELATIV, MY RELATNSHIP WH THE HARRY POTTER SERI IS STRAED BY THE FACT THAT I’M A WOMAN WHO LIK WOMEN, AND JKR, LIKE THOSE SUBTLY AND NOT SO SUBTLY HOMOPHOBIC FAY MEMBERS, DON’T SEEM TO LIKE QUEER PEOPLE VERY MUCH.TO BE FAIR, JOANNE K ROWLG DON’T SEEM TO LIKE ABE VICTIMS, FAT PEOPLE, PEOPLE OF LOR OR THE MENTALLY ILL VERY MUCH EHER, BUT I DIGRS.I HAVE A HARRY POTTER TATTOO. I OWN A BUNCH OF HARRY POTTER MERCHANDISG, AND THE BOOKS, AND A UPLE MOVI, AND SOME OF THE VIO GAM TOO. AND YET, MY RELATNSHIP WH THIS SERI THAT HAS BEEN SO TEGRAL TO MY LIFE SCE I WAS SIX YEARS OLD IS NOW TATED BY BTERNS. THE SEMI-RECENT PREMIERE OF THE FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FD THEM MOVIE HAS ONLY CREASED THIS RENTMENT.I THK THIS IS AS GOOD A TIME AS ANY TO REVIEW THE HOMOPHOBIA THAT’S PLAGUED THE WORLD-BUILDG OF THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE OM, AT THE VERY LEAST, 1999, THE YEAR HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN WAS RELEASED.REM LUP, FENRIR GREYBACK AND PREDATORY GAYSA SCREENP OF REM LUP AS PORTRAYED THE HARRY POTTER MOVI.THOUGH THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, BOTH BEE OF THE BLATANT TENT EASILY UGHT BY CRICS WHEN THE THIRD BOOK OF THE HARRY POTTER SERI AND OM WHAT JKR HAS REPEATEDLY SAID TERVIEWS FOR OVER A . YET, WH SEVENTEEN YEARS WORTH OF CHANC TO REALIZE JT HOW HOMOPHOBIC THE METAPHOR IS, JKR STILL SISTS THAT LYNTHROPY IS A METAPHOR FOR AIDS. IN A RECENTLY PUBLISHED E-BOOK (“SHORT STORI FROM HOGWARTS OF HEROISM, HARDSHIP, AND DANGERO HOBBI”) SHE WR:“LUP’S NDN OF LYNTHROPY WAS A METAPHOR FOR THOSE ILLNS THAT RRY A STIGMA, LIKE HIV AND AIDS,” ROWLG WR. “ALL KDS OF SUPERSTNS SEEM TO SURROUND BLOOD-BORNE NDNS, PROBABLY DUE TO TABOOS SURROUNDG BLOOD SELF. THE WIZARDG MUNY IS AS PRONE TO HYSTERIA AND PREJUDICE AS THE MUGGLE ONE, AND THE CHARACTER OF LUP GAVE ME A CHANCE TO EXAME THOSE ATTUS.”THE REAR MIGHT NOW ASK (AS MANY OF THOSE WHO SIST ON FENDG JKR’S CHARACTER HAVE), “HOW IS THIS HOMOPHOBIC?” WELL, ALL BEGS WH A LONG WHSTANDG URBAN MYTH THAT APPEARED THE LATE ’80S: THE “P PRICK ATTACKS” AND SIAR STORI.THE “P PICK ATTACKS” IS ONE OF THE NAM GIVEN TO AN URBAN LEGEND THAT SPREAD ACROSS MANY UNTRI, PRCIPALLY THE UK AND THE US, ABOUT EVIL HIV POSIVE QUEER PEOPLE (PARTICULARLY GAY MEN AND TRANS WOMEN) PURPOSEFULLY FECTG PEOPLE (PECIALLY CHILDREN) WH AIDS BY LEAVG FECTED NEEDL ON TRA/B/THEATER SEATS, PRICKG THEM ON THE STREET/PUBLIC TRANSPORTATN/CLUBS.WHAT DO THIS HAVE TO DO WH HARRY POTTER AND WEREWOLV? I QUOTE HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRCE:“FENRIR GREYBACK IS, PERHAPS, THE MOST SAVAGE WEREWOLF ALIVE TODAY. HE REGARDS AS HIS MISSN LIFE TO BE AND TO NTA­MATE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE; HE WANTS TO CREATE ENOUGH WERE­WOLV TO OVERE THE WIZARDS.VOLMORT HAS PROMISED HIM PREY RETURN FOR HIS SERVIC. GREYBACK SPECIALIS CHILDREN… BE THEM YOUNG, HE SAYS, AND RAISE THEM AWAY OM THEIR PARENTS, RAISE THEM TO HATE NORMAL WIZARDS.”DO THIS SOUND FAIAR? ANYTHG LIKE VLENT HOMOPHOB TALKG ABOUT GAY PEOPLE RPTG THE YOUTH AND EVIL HIV POSIVE QUEER PEOPLE G THE LIV OF NOCENT HETEROSEXUALS BY FECTG THEM?TO ADD TO THIS, THE FACT THAT THE FACE OF JKR’S UGLY, HOMOPHOBIC METAPHOR ABOUT HIV AND QUEERNS IS REM LUP, A STRAIGHT CHARACTER, ONLY ADDS TO THE IA OF “EVIL QUEER MAN FECTS NOCENT STRAIGHT CHILD”. (DURG A ST TERVIEW 2011, DAVID THEWLIS MENTED THAT JKR SAID THAT SHE ORIGALLY MEANT TO WRE HIM AS GAY BUT THEN “THE CHARACTER CHANGED AND FELL LOVE WH TONKS”, BUT I’M NOT GOG TO MENT ON THIS.)ALB DUMBLEDORE, CELIBATE GAY MEN AND THE TRAGEDY OF QUEER LOVEA PROMOTNAL STILL OF ALB DUMBLEDORE AS PORTRAYED THE MOVI.THE HOMOPHOBIA DON’T END HERE, THOUGH. UP UNTIL A UPLE YEARS AGO, THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE HAD AT LEAST EIGHT HUNDRED CHARACTERS. AT LEAST TWO HUNDRED OF THE CHARACTERS HAVE A NAME AND WE KNOW (OM THE BOOKS, MOVI, POTTERMORE, JKR’S TWTER OR OTHER SOURC OF NON TRIVIA) AT LEAST SOME BASIC RMATN ABOUT OVER A HUNDRED OF THEM. THIS NUMBER HAS, OF URSE, GROWN WH THE ADDN OF THE RECENT “CURSED CHILD” PLAY AND THE “FANTASTIC BEASTS” MOVIE, THOUGH I DON’T HAVE AN UPDATED HEADUNT AT HAND.NOW, OUT OF ALL THE CHARACTERS, THERE IS ONLY ONE WHO IS NFIRMED AS GAY (OR OTHERWISE NOT HETEROSEXUAL), AND THAT CHARACTER IS ALB DUMBLEDORE, WHO HAS YET TO BE EXPLICED AS GAY NON AND WAS ONLY REVEALED AS SUCH DURG AN TERVIEW 2007. THOUGH THE REVEAL WAS MA AFTER THE END OF THE BOOK SERI BUT BEFORE THE SIXTH MOVIE OF THE SERI WAS PUBLISHED, JKR AND THE PEOPLE AT WARNER BROS NEVER TOOK THE CHANCE TO EXPLIC DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY ANY OF THE MOVIE ADAPTATNS THAT ME AFTER .SHE TOOK DIENCE QUTNS AND WAS ASKED IF DUMBLEDORE FOUND “TE LOVE”.“DUMBLEDORE IS GAY,” SHE SAID, ADDG HE WAS SMTEN WH RIVAL GELLERT GRLWALD, WHO HE BEAT A BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND BAD WIZARDS LONG AGO.THE DIENCE GASPED, THEN APPLD. “I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU EARLIER IF I KNEW WOULD MAKE YOU SO HAPPY,” SHE SAID. “FALLG LOVE N BLD TO AN EXTENT,” SHE ADD, SAYG DUMBLEDORE WAS “HORRIBLY, TERRIBLY LET DOWN” AND HIS LOVE FOR GRLWALD WAS HIS “GREAT TRAGEDY”.IN OTHER TERVIEWS ACROSS THE YEARS, SHE’S CLARIFIED THAT GRLWALD NEVER RRPOND DUMBLEDORE’S FEELGS, BUT HE DID E THEM TO HIS OWN ADVANTAGE.HOW EXACTLY IS THIS HOMOPHOBIC, A REAR MIGHT (AGA) ASK. WELL, TO BEG WH, KNOWG THAT AT LEAST TEN PERCENT OF THE POPULATN OF EARTH IS SOME WAY ATTRACTED TO THEIR OWN GENR, ’S A STATISTIL IMPROBABILY THAT ONLY ONE EIGHT HUNDRED CHARACTERS IS GAY. JT FOR THE SAKE OF REALISM, AT LEAST TEN OF THE NAMED CHARACTERS WE KNOW SOME SORT OF “TRIVIA” ABOUT SHOULD HAVE BEEN NFIRMED AS GAY, BISEXUAL, PANSEXUAL OR ANOTHER NON-STRAIGHT INTY. BUT THAT IS NOT ALL.QUOTG OM THIS ARTICLE:BY OUTG HIM AFTER HIS ATH, ROWLG EFFECTIVELY PLACED DUMBLEDORE WH THE LONGSTANDG, PROBLEMATIC “AD GAYS” TROPE, STEAD OF SHOWG HIM LIVG OUT HIS QUEER INTY — OR, EVEN BETTER, GIVG KIDS EXAMPL OF QUEER CHARACTERS HARRY’S OWN AGE THAT THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO MORE EFFECTIVELY RELATE TO THAN A 150-YEAR-OLD SOCK-LOVG SCHOOL PRCIPAL.DUMBLEDORE, AS A CHARACTER WH NON, IS A LONELY AND ECCENTRIC OLD MAN WHO HAS NEVER HAD ANY MEANGFUL ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS SAVE FOR HIS UNREQUED AS “TRAGIC” LOVE FOR A MAN WHO DIDN’T LOVE HIM BACK AND THAT ED DUMBLEDORE’S FEELGS TO HIS OWN ADVANTAGE. THAT’S THE ONLY GAY CHARACTER THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE: A MAN WHOSE ROMANTIC FEELGS FOR ANOTHER MAN RPTED HIM AND ALMOST DOOMED HIM, WHO WAS MANIPULATED BY THE MAN HE LOVED AND THEN HAD TO FIGHT HIM, AND WHO THEN SPENT A CENTURY ALONE.RA SKEETER’S UNTHORIZED BGRAPHY ULD HAVE BEEN A PERFECT WAY TO LET KNOWN, AT LEAST, OF DUMBLEDORE’S FEELGS FOR GRLWALD AND, IALLY, OF A LONG PASSED HBAND OR AT LEAST A UPLE MALE LOVERS THROUGH HIS LIFE. BUT THAT NEVER HAPPENED.THE CURSED CHILD AND QUEERBAG OVER QUEER REPRENTATNA PHOTO OF ALB AND SRPI AS PORTRAYED THE CURSED CHILD.THIS ULD AND SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO NVCE ANYONE THAT JKR AND THE HARRY POTTER ANCHISE DO NOT DO RIGHT BY S QUEER FANS, BUT THAT IS NOT ALL. THOUGH MY TENTN IS TO TALK ABOUT “FANTASTIC BEASTS”, I GOTTA MAKE A QUICK ASI.I HAVE NOT READ NOR SEEN THE “CURSED CHILD” PLAY, AND I DON’T PLAN ON , SO I’M ONLY GOG TO MENT ON BY QUOTG THIS EXCELLENT ARTICLE PUBLISHED VOX BY AJA ROMANO: “THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE STILL N’T TRANSLATE S GAY SUBTEXT TO TEXT. IT’S A PROBLEM.”THE IENDSHIP BETWEEN HARRY’S SON, ALB, AND DRA MALFOY’S SON, SRPI, THE PLAY HAS DRAWN MUCH MEDIA MENTARY THAT’S MCED FEW WORDS CRICIZG THE WAY THE SCRIPT SPENDS S TIME BUILDG EVINCE FOR A NONILLY QUEER RELATNSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO BOYS, ONLY TO BTALLY YANK AWAY AT THE END WH A FLIMSY “NO HOMO” EXCE.ALB/SRPI HAS BEEN A MAJOR FANDOM “SHIP,” OR THEORETIL ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP, SCE HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS WAS RELEASED, AND THORNE AND TIFFANY HAVE FILLED THEIR PLAY’S SCRIPT WH REFERENC TO THEIR POTENTIALLY QUEER RELATNSHIP. IN THE PLAY, THE TWO BOYS ARE UTTERLY VOTED TO EACH OTHER. THEY EXCHANGE LONG, SENSUAL HUGS. THEY’RE JEALO OF PETG RELATNSHIPS AND UNWILLG TO BE SEPARATED OM ONE ANOTHER. (…)THROUGHOUT CURSED CHILD, SEXUAL SUBTEXT HOVERS AT THE EDG OF ALB AND SRPI’ TERACTNS, AS THEY MAKE AWKWARD OVERTUR TO EXPLORG THEIR SEXUALY WH GIRLS. AGA AND AGA, THE POORLY WRTEN WOMEN OF THE PLAY ARE ED AS SHAMELS PROPS FOR THE GIANT, FLASHG “NO HOMO!” SIGN THAT THE PLAY HANGS OVER THE TWO BOYS’ HEADS. ALB AND SRPI’ TERT GIRLS SEEMS TO BE ADD AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT, WEDGED THROUGHOUT THE PLAY UNRVELOPED, UNNVCG MOMENTS.ROSE GRANGER-WEASLEY, THE DGHTER OF HERMNE AND RON, SHOWS UP THROUGHOUT CURSED CHILD TO LIVER PLOT EXPOSN AND SERVE AS A TARGET FOR SRPI’S ROMANTIC OVERTUR. AT THE END, WHOUT ANY VELOPMENT OF THEIR RELATNSHIP WHATSOEVER, SHE FALLY RPONDS SEMIPOSIVELY TO HIS FAILED ATTEMPTS TO ASK HER OUT. BY SELF, THIS IS A TROUBLG VERSN OF THE “WEAR THE GIRL DOWN” TROPE; UPLED WH THE PLAY’S HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXT, ’S A TRA WRECK.FANTASTIC BEASTS AND GIVG A PLATFORM TO HOMOPHOB

Removed two l of dialogue about a gay relatnship for the Che release of s latt Harry Potter movie. In 2016, Cha’s top media regulator issued new guil that banned TV shows that promote “Wtern liftyl, ” cludg pictns of cleavage, drkg, smokg and homosexualy. In another example om March 2019, more than two mut of LGBTQ ntent — cludg scen of two men kissg and e of the word “gay” — were removed om Freddie Mercury bpic “Bohemian Rhapsody.

A look to the gay reprentatn (or utter lack thereof) across the Harry Potter anchise. And, jt like wh many of my relativ, my relatnship wh the Harry Potter seri is straed by the fact that I’m a woman who lik women, and JKR, like those subtly and not so subtly homophobic fay members, don’t seem to like queer people very be fair, Joanne K Rowlg don’t seem to like abe victims, fat people, people of lor or the mentally ill very much eher, but I digrs. I thk this is as good a time as any to review the homophobia that’s plagued the world-buildg of the Harry Potter universe om, at the very least, 1999, the year Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was Lup, Fenrir Greyback and predatory gaysA screenp of Rem Lup as portrayed the Harry Potter this has always been public knowledge, both bee of the blatant tent easily ught by crics when the third book of the Harry Potter seri and om what JKR has repeatedly said terviews for over a .

Yet, wh seventeen years worth of chanc to realize jt how homophobic the metaphor is, JKR still sists that lynthropy is a metaphor for AIDS.

IS HARRY POTTER GAY?

”The rear might now ask (as many of those who sist on fendg JKR’s character have), “how is this homophobic?

IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED

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(Durg a st terview 2011, David Thewlis mented that JKR said that she origally meant to wre him as gay but then “the character changed and fell love wh Tonks”, but I’m not gog to ment on this. )Alb Dumbledore, celibate gay men and the tragedy of queer loveA promotnal still of Alb Dumbledore as portrayed the homophobia don’t end here, though. This number has, of urse, grown wh the addn of the recent “Cursed Child” play and the “Fantastic Beasts” movie, though I don’t have an updated headunt at, out of all the characters, there is only one who is nfirmed as gay (or otherwise not heterosexual), and that character is Alb Dumbledore, who has yet to be expliced as gay non and was only revealed as such durg an terview 2007.

“Dumbledore is gay, ” she said, addg he was smten wh rival Gellert Grlwald, who he beat a battle between good and bad wizards long dience gasped, then appld. “Fallg love n bld to an extent, ” she add, sayg Dumbledore was “horribly, terribly let down” and his love for Grlwald was his “great tragedy” other terviews across the years, she’s clarified that Grlwald never rrpond Dumbledore’s feelgs, but he did e them to his own exactly is this homophobic, a rear might (aga) ask.