J.K. Rowlg rponds to gay Dumbledore ntroversy | CNN

Contents:

• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED
• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? WHY J.K. ROWLG'S NTUAL CHARACTER REVISNISM IS GETTG OLD
• J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY
• SO, HOW GAY IS ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ EXACTLY?
• SEVEN CLU THAT ‘POTTER’S’ DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY
• J.K. ROWLG REVEALS DUMBLEDORE IS GAY
• DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD FALLY GET THEIR GAY MOMENT FANTASTIC BEASTS 3
• J.K. ROWLG WANTS YOU TO KNOW HOW GAY DUMBLEDORE REALLY WAS
• WARNER BROS. REMOV ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE’ DIALOGUE ABOUT GAY RELATNSHIP FOR CHA
• DUMBLEDORE IS GAY, BUT SHOULD HE HAVE BEEN?
• J.K. ROWLG HTS THAT DUMBLEDORE WILL BE OPENLY GAY THE FANTASTIC BEASTS SEQUEL
• JK ROWLG IS FACG A BACKLASH OVER THE DUMBLEDORE/GRLWALD GAY RELATNSHIP REVEAL
• DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY, JK TELLS AMAZED FANS
• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? DEPENDS ON DEFNS OF ‘IS’ AND ‘GAY’

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.

IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? WHY J.K. ROWLG'S NTUAL CHARACTER REVISNISM IS GETTG OLD

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? 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.

J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY

” However, Fantastic Beasts never explicly ma clear Dumbledore is gay.

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

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 .

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.

SEVEN CLU THAT ‘POTTER’S’ DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY

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? Rowlg first clared that Alb Dumbledore is gay, the new Fantastic Beasts movie has fally ma non.

J.K. ROWLG REVEALS DUMBLEDORE IS GAY

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.

DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD FALLY GET THEIR GAY MOMENT FANTASTIC BEASTS 3

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. 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???

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

"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. 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.

“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.

WARNER BROS. REMOV ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE’ DIALOGUE ABOUT GAY RELATNSHIP FOR CHA

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. 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.

DUMBLEDORE IS GAY, BUT SHOULD HE HAVE BEEN?

Rowlg tweeted back: “Maybe bee gay people jt look like… people?

And nsirg the tle of the film — which refers to some hidn mysteri the past of Hogwarts headmaster and future Harry Potter mentor Alb Dumbledore (Ju Law) — there might be one qutn loomg over this latt “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Fd Them” film: jt how gay is ? Followg the publitn of the fal “Harry Potter” novel, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, ” 2007, Rowlg revealed that Dumbledore was gay and that his prr relatnship wh famed evil wizard Grlwald (now played by Mads Mikkelsen), was ed romantic. But now, two movi and wh a much more sympathetic Grlwald, they fally n properly explore Dumbledore’s romantic entanglement wh a very mad rultg film is perhaps gayer than you were expectg, but not nearly as gay as should be.

J.K. ROWLG HTS THAT DUMBLEDORE WILL BE OPENLY GAY THE FANTASTIC BEASTS SEQUEL

) And that’s about as emotnally naked (and gay) as the movie are a uple more passg referenc to their relatnship sprkled throughout the very long film. Rowlg announced she had always imaged one of the ma characters the “Harry Potter” seri -- Alb Dumbledore -- to be gay.

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

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. 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.

DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY, JK TELLS AMAZED FANS

And the end, the fact that we never would have gused is what mak Dumbledore beg gay so real.

IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? DEPENDS ON DEFNS OF ‘IS’ AND ‘GAY’

So many tim I have enuntered iends who are gay that I never would have predicted. Dumbledore has fally said he's gay out 's been a long, long time g, but there's fally a textually gay moment a Harry Potter movie. "Bee I was love wh you, " Dumbledore you have , the gay Harry Potter moment we've been wag 15 years for.

Rowlg ma que the motn when she clared that Dumbledore was gay, spe there not really beg anythg the books to dite that. The only thg that uld really be poted to was his allud-to, once-close relatnship wh the evil wizard was seen by some as a great moment for gay reprentatn, but for others, seemed like a p-out - a way to say your book has gay reprentatn whout actually havg anythg gay happen or mentned the text self. Now, we're seeg the culmatn of Potter was, at one time one, of the biggt media anchis on earth, and havg a ma character volly exprs romantic feelgs for a character of the same sex should be a huge unfortunately, the anchise has very few queer fans left and even ls queer only are fans disappoted by the lack of any textual queerns any of the books, but Rowlg has also ma herself to an enemy of the LGBTQ+ muny by beg a steadfast and vol TERF over the last several years, spewg anti-trans hate whenever she those still terted seeg Dumbledore and Grlwald's gay adventur, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore premier theaters April 15.

""I always thought Dumbledore is gay, " she said and explaed that the character had fallen love as a young man wh Gellert Grlwald, who later beme a rival. Rowlg said she had already revealed Dumbledore's sexualy to David Yat, director of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prce, after seeg a scene the script which Dumbledore remisc about an attractn to a young said she crossed out and wrote "Dumbledore is gay" over that sectn of the film versn of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prce, the sixth book the seri, is due for release late next year.