News: Update: Dumbledore was gay, says 'Potter' thor

Contents:

• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED
• J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY
• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? WHY J.K. ROWLG'S NTUAL CHARACTER REVISNISM IS GETTG OLD
• SO, HOW GAY IS ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ EXACTLY?
• SEVEN CLU THAT ‘POTTER’S’ DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY
• "FANTASTIC BEASTS 3" LETS DUMBLEDORE BE GAY, BUT IT CAN'T COVER UP J.K. ROWLG'S TRANSPHOBIA
• DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD FALLY GET THEIR GAY MOMENT FANTASTIC BEASTS 3
• IS LIL NAS X GAY REAL LIFE? DCRIBE HIS SEXUALY!
• DUMBLEDORE IS GAY, BUT SHOULD HE HAVE BEEN?
• DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY, JK TELLS AMAZED FANS
• WARNER BROS. REMOV ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE’ DIALOGUE ABOUT GAY RELATNSHIP FOR CHA
• NOT EVEN GAY DUMBLEDORE CAN SAVE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ J.K. ROWLG’S LATT MS
• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? DEPENDS ON DEFNS OF ‘IS’ AND ‘GAY’
• J.K. ROWLG WANTS YOU TO KNOW HOW GAY DUMBLEDORE REALLY WAS
• J.K. ROWLG HTS THAT DUMBLEDORE WILL BE OPENLY GAY THE FANTASTIC BEASTS SEQUEL
• WARNER BROS. DECID HARRY POTTER’S DUMBLEDORE IS TOO GAY FOR CHA
• JK ROWLG IS FACG A BACKLASH OVER THE DUMBLEDORE/GRLWALD GAY RELATNSHIP REVEAL
• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY?
• JK ROWLG'S BRILLIANT RPONSE TO FAN WHO ASKED 'WHY IS DUMBLEDORE GAY?'
• IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? THE QUTN HIGHLIGHTS A EPER LERARY BATE
• DUMBLEDORE IS SO GAY!
• UPDATE: DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY, SAYS 'POTTER' THOR
• J. K. ROWLG AT CARNEGIE HALL REVEALS DUMBLEDORE IS GAY; NEVILLE MARRI HANNAH ABBOTT, AND MUCH MORE

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? 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.

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. 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.

J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY

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. 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. 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.

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

“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. 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 ?

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

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. ) 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.

"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. Rowlg Confirms Some Characters Her Books and Movi Are Gay Everywhere Except the Books or the Movi, " another Twter er wrote.

SEVEN CLU THAT ‘POTTER’S’ DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY

’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.

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. “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. Rowlg has tweeted a number of tim that actually she is speakg out for the many lbian and gay people who feel that gay rights anizatns that are protrans are actually antiwoman.

There's of urse no proof that this is a large group of people, and gay and lbian people who are transphobic don't prove that beg transphobic is rrect. 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.

"FANTASTIC BEASTS 3" LETS DUMBLEDORE BE GAY, BUT IT CAN'T COVER UP J.K. ROWLG'S TRANSPHOBIA

Dumbledore is fally g out as gay and he is dog so a subtle manner the new Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of 2007, JK Rowlg rocked the world of Harry Potter fans after revealg that she always thought Alb Dumbledore was gay. Fans were eply shaken bee nothg the books dited the Hogwarts headmaster beg homosexual bis JK alludg to his once-close relatnship wh the evil wizard Gellert, fally, Dumbledore and Grlwald have got their gay moment on the show when the former nfs his love for the villa.

SEE: What happened to Fez Mallatia as rapper reveals he is battlg an illnsScreenshots om Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – Dumbledore’s First ArmyDumbledore gets a gay moment Fantastic Beasts 3In a new clip om Fantastic Beasts 3, we see Dumbledore nfsg his love to Grlwald. When I was a kid the Atlanta regn, I wnsed numero subtle forms of homophobic bigotry, “Small thgs, like gog to an IHOP wh your fay and overhearg someone say, “look at them faggots, ” or even somethg as simple as, “boys don’t weep.

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.

DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD FALLY GET THEIR GAY MOMENT FANTASTIC BEASTS 3

No homophobia, i mean as do you believe JK when she says dumbledore is gay, i personally believe he is, and the reasons was never brought up the books was not beg apart the overall plot, also the way they’re relatnship is scribed IMO is secret a homosexual relatnship that no one knew about, which mak sense as to why no one said anythg about , bee dumbledore never mentned . 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. 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.

IS LIL NAS X GAY REAL LIFE? DCRIBE HIS SEXUALY!

As a reprentatn starved queer person, the fact I never once thought of Dumbledore as gay certaly says a lot about Rowlg’s wrg. " 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. 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!

DUMBLEDORE IS GAY, BUT SHOULD HE HAVE BEEN?

'" 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?

The l “I was love wh you” and “the summer Gellert and I fell love” officially make non for the first time the Harry Potter anchise that the beloved Hogwarts profsor is gay and had a romantic relatnship wh the dark wizard. Rowlg surprised fans by revealg Dumbledore is gay back 2007 durg a fan event after the publitn of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The revelatn that Dumbledore is gay is both not a bombshell (sce was overtly implied by the last film, followg years of public claratns by J.

DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY, JK TELLS AMAZED FANS

How Grlwald might rencile his Hler aspiratns and his homosexualy, however, is never properly addrsed—nor is Jewish Jab’s horror over this turn of events—jt as Dumbledore’s origal kship wh Grlwald (and his e) is skimmed over lt anyone pay too close attentn to s unbelievabily. Rowlg suggted — that as a teenage prodigy, Dumbledore had a homoerotic fatuatn wh another prodig young wizard, Grlwald (who later went over to what “Star Wars” is lled the Dark Si) — Skeeter hts at this d allns. She propos that when the two iends had a fallg out a dramatic duel, Grlwald did not fight but “njured a whe handkerchief om the end of his wand and” — the passage then giv way to an obv ( retrospect) sexual double Close/Warner Brothers PicturSuch homoerotic imagery, at any rate, suggts a strong mischievo streak, not jt among the duelg wizards but Ms.

So keepg wh this playful spir, her announcement of Dumbledore’s back story spired the retrospective applitn of gaydar across the Web.

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

Rowlg may thk of Dumbledore as gay, but there is no reason why anyone else, of urse, Dumbledore acknowledg that at the bleakt moment of his life, when he was still a teenager and feelg “trapped and wasted, ” the appearance of a charismatic iend “flamed me” and lured him to fantastil dreams of power and fluence.

NOT EVEN GAY DUMBLEDORE CAN SAVE ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ J.K. ROWLG’S LATT MS

You may be able to fd the same ntent another format, or you may be able to fd more rmatn, at their web that announcement was ntroversial at the time (Bill O'Reilly acced Rowlg of participatg some sort of gay agenda; I had a very stupid blow-out fight wh my boyiend which I lled Rowlg "lazy as hell" for not pictg Dumbledore as anythg beyond sexls old man the actual books), Rowlg has forced all to revis aga nearly 12 years later. 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. He led a celibate and a bookish Dumbledore, Rowlg's ey, was an asexual homosexual who had an tensely sexls relatnship wh a bad wizard who was more horny for evil than he was for Dumbledore.

And while 's nice to see my specifilly stupid romantic history reprented a fantasy seri for children, I am not sure 's que earned nsirg 's not actually picted the seri self, but rather jt empty talkg pots om an thor who isn't bold enough to make her gay wizards be gay wh one Culture EdorTyler Coat is the Senr Culture Edor at He liv Los Angel. ” Rowlg first revealed Dumbledore was gay durg a 2007 appearance at Carnegie Hall, notg, “I always thought of Dumbledore as gay.

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

Referenc to the beloved Harry Potter character Alb Dumbledore beg a gay man have been censored om the upg fantasy film Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of of the Wizardg World anchise met Newt Smanr (Eddie Redmayne) 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Fd Them and were troduced to Gellert Grlwald (Johnny Depp) as the ma antagonist 2018's The Crim of Grlwald. 1647483643And yet, 's beg reported that l of dialogue that refer to Dumbledore beg gay (specifilly "bee I was love wh you" and "the summer Gellert and I fell love") have been cut om the versn of The Secrets of Dumbledore that will be released Cha.

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

“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. If Rowlg did not tend Dumbledore to be gay while she was wrg, then she uld not jt tend him to be gay after the books were rponse to the challenge that she uld not make such a claratn about Dumbledore, Rowlg said, Dumbledore “is my character. To remove any doubts, Rowlg uld make public her not and backstory wrg that clearly show that she had tend Dumbledore to be gay while she was wrg.

Given the reactn after she first clared that Dumbledore is gay, the answer might be that she did not want to ve ntroversy that would distract om the novels.

So she may have said that Dumbledore was gay an effort to please secular rears and distance herself om a nservative we nsir Rowlg's claratn that Dumbledore is gay we fd there is no clear textual evince for . Still, if Rowlg produced backstory and not that showed she had always tend to munite that Dumbledore is gay, then the se would be closed for the actual tentnalist.

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

To see why, let return to Harry would likely be no disagreement between the morate actual tentnalist and the extreme actual tentnalist that Dumbledore is gay if were tablished that Rowlg genuely tend . But, as we have seen, a se where Humpty Dumpty did have the requise belief, ‘glory’ would mean a nice knock‐down now nsir the precedg discsn light of Rowlg's claratn that Dumbledore is gay.

Rowlg nnot will Dumbledore to be gay after the fact of wrg, but she certaly uld have tend to munite that Dumbledore was gay while wrg, even if she tend that munitn to be very subtle and likely to be missed by nearly all rears. If, though, she merely thought of Dumbledore as gay whout tendg to munite that fact, then that fact is not part of the meang of the text.

WARNER BROS. DECID HARRY POTTER’S DUMBLEDORE IS TOO GAY FOR CHA

But, given that piece of rmatn, some vampire‐obssed rears might enjoy readg the text that way—they would prefer that signifince of the brgs back to Rowlg's claratn that she had always thought of Dumbledore as gay.

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

If what she genuely meant by that statement was that she had always tend to munite that Dumbledore was gay, however obliquely, then that impli that she believed was prciple possible for rears to grasp that meang.

IS DUMBLEDORE GAY?

If, however, what Rowlg meant by that statement was that was a thought that occurred to her but which she never tend to munite by the text, would not be part of the meang of the text that Dumbledore is gay.

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

This is someone wh extensive knowledge of the subject matter and highly ced published this brief article we are gog to answer the qutn ‘’Is Dumbledore gay? Incredible as may seem, this statement provoked several crics and the wrer has been fendg the character’s homosexualy for years. But as wh any relatnship, gay or straight or whatever label you want to put on , you never know what the other person is feelg.

The only thg that the Hogwarts profsor ments on the matter is that they had a closer relatnship than that of two the director of the feature film said early 2018 that there would be no explic reference to Dumbledore’s homosexualy, fans of the saga exprsed their outrage on social media. It’s the practice of suggtg a gay love relatnship between fictnal characters but not reprentg , wh the aim of attractg the ‘queer’ removed a “gay dialogue” for ChaWarner Bros. They are some phras that refer to Hogwarts profsor Alb Dumbledore (Ju Law) beg gay and havg a relatnship wh dark wizard Gellert Grlwald (Mads Mikkelsen) cuts are six sends to the film’s 143-mute nng time.

IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? THE QUTN HIGHLIGHTS A EPER LERARY BATE

In rponse to a qutn about whether Dumbledore had ever been love, she announced that she had “always thought of Dumbledore as gay. As far as textual evince go, ’s clear that “Dumbledore is gay” is not a primary tth Harry Potter: that sentence appears nowhere the 4, 100 or so nonil pag. By this reasong, ’s not up to Rowlg to say whether Dumbledore is gay: her texts need to be allowed to speak for themselv, and each of her rears is a qualified listener.

One way that a rear might argue agast the suggtn that Dumbledore is gay would be to ntend that Harry Potter belongs to a genre of children’s stori which issu of adult sexualy do not arise. On this sort of acunt, simply isn’t fahful to the story to say that Dumbledore is gay – not bee he’s straight or even asexual, but bee don’t make sense to speak about his sexualy at all.

DUMBLEDORE IS SO GAY!

Fally, one might argue agast Dumbledore’s beg gay on the grounds that do no work illumatg the story, renrg Rowlg’s claratn at bt an irrelevant fillip. In 2007, Harry Potter thor JK Rowlg offered fans some addnal sight to her character Alb Dumbledore, when she explaed that the much-loved wizard and Hogwarts headmaster was gay. Yterday, a fan named Ana Kovovic took to Twter to query Rowlg's cisn, askg the thor: "I wonr why you said that Dumbledore is a gay bee I n't see him that way?

) But as someone who read that Dumbledore was gay on the origal Harry Potter fan se, I've always assumed that there had been more than iendship between the two. Seemgly unsatisfied wh the shock value of makg the characters her Harry Potter anchise racially ambiguo, she has cid to double-down on her 2007 claratn that Hogwarts headmaster Alb Dumbledore, a beloved elrly male character, is gay.

UPDATE: DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY, SAYS 'POTTER' THOR

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J. K. ROWLG AT CARNEGIE HALL REVEALS DUMBLEDORE IS GAY; NEVILLE MARRI HANNAH ABBOTT, AND MUCH MORE

Stat and Bra -- the children readg her books uld have ed a beloved gay character, which might have given gay life some sorely need hero.

”Here’s a sharper take om WNYC’s Nancy, a queer podst, which, a 2017 episo lled There Are No Gay Wizards, took issue wh Rowlg gettg too much cred for wrg an “inic gay character, " as the show’s producer Matt Collette put .

"That’s a wrer who puts jt enough of a queer story le to appease the fans who’d like one, but not so much as to offend anyone who don’t like gay people. Closeted Dumbledore is her Jar-Jar Bks, and she is curdlg to the Potterverse’s Gee Lus, well-tentned and rpected as tenured emer but ultimately diststed to ntue the nonil Rowlg thks — a fantasy world of magic and possibily and polyjuice potn and metamorphmagi — that Easter-eggg a character as ex-post-facto closeted is any way helpful to anyone wonrg what to do wh gay thoughts and gay feelgs, she’s wrong.