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:

• J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY
• JK ROWLG SAYS DUMBLEDORE IS GAY
• J.K. ROWLG REVEALS DUMBLEDORE IS GAY
• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? WHY J.K. ROWLG'S NTUAL CHARACTER REVISNISM IS GETTG OLD
• JK ROWLG'S BRILLIANT RPONSE TO FAN WHO ASKED 'WHY IS DUMBLEDORE GAY?'
• 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

J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY

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.

JK ROWLG SAYS DUMBLEDORE IS GAY

Rowlg’s reply to cric of gay Dumbledore. Rowlg tweeted back: “Maybe bee gay people jt look like… people? Rowlg has outed one of the ma characters of her bt-sellg Harry Potter seri, tellg fans New York that the wizard Alb Dumbledore, head of Hogwarts school, is gay.

Tour seven years, Rowlg nfirmed what some fans had always spected -- that she “always thought Dumbledore was gay”, reported entertament Web se E!

Rowlg said she had read through a script for the movie adaptatn of the sixth book the seri, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prce” and rrected a passage which Dumbledore was remiscg about past lov by crossg out and scrawlg “Dumbledore is gay” over . Rowlg first clared that Alb Percival Wulic Brian Dumbledore, Hogwarts headmaster and half-moon-spectacle enthiast, was gay.

J.K. ROWLG REVEALS DUMBLEDORE IS GAY

"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!

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

'" 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.

JK ROWLG'S BRILLIANT RPONSE TO FAN WHO ASKED 'WHY IS DUMBLEDORE GAY?'

When a Twter er told her they uldn't "see [Dumbledore] that way, " Rowlg replied, "Maybe bee gay people jt look like… people? ""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. On Tuday, a fan tweeted to the social media-iendly wrer to ask about Dumbledore beg gay, which was revealed after Rowlg fished the Harry Potter seri.

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

“I wonr why you said that Dumbledore is a gay bee I n’t see him that way, ” Ana Kovic said. 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.

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

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.

DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY, JK TELLS AMAZED FANS

Harry Potter thor JK Rowlg has revealed that one of her characters, Hogwarts school headmaster Alb Dumbledore, is gay. "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. Gay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell weled the news about Dumbledore and said: "It's good that children's lerature clus the realy of gay people, sce we exist every society.