Harry Potter thor J.K. Rowlg claims Alb Dumbledore and Gellert Grlwald had a passnate, gay relatnship, a ment that has ed ntroversy among Harry Potter fans.
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
- DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD FALLY GET THEIR GAY MOMENT FANTASTIC BEASTS 3
- J.K. ROWLG WANTS YOU TO KNOW HOW GAY DUMBLEDORE REALLY WAS
- DUMBLEDORE IS GAY, BUT SHOULD HE HAVE BEEN?
- J.K. ROWLG REVEALS DUMBLEDORE IS GAY
- JK ROWLG IS FACG A BACKLASH OVER THE DUMBLEDORE/GRLWALD GAY RELATNSHIP REVEAL
- FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD AND DUMBLEDORE’S VEXG SEXUALYAS EXPECTED, THE FILM ALLUS TO DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S ROMANTIC PAST THROUGH HEAVY-HAND IMPLITN.BY LRA BRADLEYNOVEMBER 15, 2018COURTY OF WARNER BROS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS FOR FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD.OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, PROPERTI ACROSS JT ABOUT EVERY GENRE OF FILM AND TELEVISN HAVE BEEN LLED OUT FOR DMMG UP TERT BY TOUTG THE PRENCE OF QUEER OR QUEER-D CHARACTERS, ONLY TO WHIFF THE PROJECTS THEMSELV BY ONLY NODDG VAGUELY TOWARD THE SEXUALI OF THOSE CHARACTERS—AND RENRG THEM VIRTUALLY IRRELEVANT. THE TREND MAY HAVE REACHED S ZENH WHEN BILL CONDON, WHO DIRECTED THE 2017 LIVE-ACTN VERSN OF BETY AND THE BEAST, HYPED THE MOVIE BY SAYG A PRE-RELEASE TERVIEW THAT WOULD CLU AN “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT”—WHICH END UP BEG A BRIEF SCENE WHICH JOSH GAD DANCED WH ANOTHER MAN.MANY A NIZEN OF HARRY POTTERDOM HAD HIGHER HOP FOR THIS WEEK’S FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD. THE ENSEMBLE FILM VOLV A CHARACTER, ALB DUMBLEDORE, WHOM POTTER VENTOR J.K. ROWLG CLARED TO BE GAY, RIGHT AFTER WRAPPG THE SEVEN-BOOK SERI. (IT WAS ONLY THE FIRST OF MANY EX POST FACTO EDS AND ADDNS SHE WOULD EVENTUALLY MAKE TO HER MEGA-POPULAR ANCHISE.) EVEN AFTER NEWS BROKE THAT DUMBLEDORE AND HIS FORMER LOVER, GELLERT GRLWALD, WOULD NOT BE “EXPLICLY” GAY THE FILM, A QUTN HAS LGERED ABOUT HOW, EXACTLY, THE MOVIE WOULD ADDRS THE SUBJECT.DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY NEVER PLAYED AN EXPLIC ROLE THE BOOK SERI, EHER—BUT THE FANTASTIC BEASTS ANCHISE ST S GAZE TOWARD DUMBLEDORE AND HIS OLD FLAME GRLWALD’S PAST, GIVG ROWLG (WHO WR THE SCRIPTS FOR THE FANTASTIC BEASTS FILMS) AND DIRECTOR DAVID YAT A CHANCE TO RPORATE THAT FOOTNOTE TO THIS FICTNAL WORLD’S NON. BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT THE FILM SELF WOUND UP DOG. THROUGHOUT THE CRIM OF GRLWALD, DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S BOND IS SCRIBED, SO MANY WORDS, AS “LIKE BROTHERS, ONLY CLOSER”—ALL LONGG LOOKS AND BLOOD PACTS, LI OF ANY REAL ROMANCE.THOUGH THE SEND FANTASTIC BEASTS MOVIE HAS TIME FOR MULTIPLE CHARACTERS AND SUBPLOTS—TOO MANY, FACT!—THERE ARE ONLY A FEW FLEETG MOMENTS WHICH THE FILM DIRECTLY ADDRS DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S PAST. THE FIRST AS AN AUROR TRI TO NVCE DUMBLEDORE TO HELP TAKE GRLWALD DOWN. WHEN DUMBLEDORE EXPRS RELUCTANCE, THE OFFICER ASKS IF “THIS” IS THE REASON—STG A SPELL THAT SHOWS A SHADOWY YOUNG DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD LOOKG AT ONE ANOTHER. THE TWO WERE LIKE BROTHERS, HE SAYS. DUMBLEDORE’S REPLY? “WE WERE CLOSER THAN BROTHERS.” IN ANOTHER, LATER FLASHBACK, THE TWO ARE SHOWN EXECUTG A BLOOD PACT— LI OF KISSG OR SHOWG ANY OTHER SORT OF OUTWARD AFFECTN. IN PERHAPS THE MOST EXPLIC MOMENT THE ENTIRE FILM, DUMBLEDORE SE GRLWALD’S IMAGE THE MIRROR OF ERISED. AS DUMBLEDORE WOULD LATER TELL HARRY POTTER, THE MIRROR “SHOWS NOTHG MORE OR LS THEN THE EPT AND MOST SPERATE SIR OF ONE’S HEART.”THIS RELIANCE ON IMPLITN IS TRATG, PERHAPS, BUT UNRSTANDABLE; GIANT, FAY-IENDLY TENTPOLE FILMS DON’T TEND TO GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO RPORATE NTENT THAT CERTA MOGRAPHICS MIGHT FD NTROVERSIAL. THE WORST PART, THOUGH, IS THAT THE FILM TRI TO HAVE S KE AND EAT TOO. IT THROWS FANS A FEW BON BY ALLUDG TO DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S RELATNSHIP, YET DUMBLEDORE SEEMS UNWILLG OR UNABLE TO ADM THAT SAID RELATNSHIP WAS ROMANTIC. EVEN MORE PUZZLGLY, DUMBLEDORE NEVER EXPLAS WHY HE N’T BE HONT ABOUT THAT ASPECT OF HIS BOND WH GRLWALD.ONE HAS TO ASSUME THAT HOMOPHOBIA RAN RAMPANT THE WIZARDG WORLD THE 1920S, JT AS DID THE HUMAN WORLD—BUT THE NCEPT OF ANTI-GAY SENTIMENT IS AS VAGUE THE FILM AS THE NCEPT OF HOMOSEXUALY. IT’S REMISCENT OF LAST YEAR’S THE GREATT SHOWMAN, ANOTHER PERD PIECE THAT NSISTENTLY ALLUS TO THE DARK FORC KEEPG ZENDAYA’S CHARACTER AND ZAC EON’S CHARACTER APART WHOUT EVER DIRECTLY MENTNG RACISM. AS A RULT, THE RELATNSHIP RGS HOLLOW—LIKE A PLOT VICE OR A NARRATIVE NOVELTY SERTED PURELY SO THE FILM ULD CHECK OFF A BOX THE LEAST OFFENSIVE WAY.IT’S EASY TO IMAGE HOW THIS STORY LE ULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED DIFFERENTLY. EVEN ONE MORE WELL-PLACED FLASHBACK WOULD HAVE MA ALL THE DIFFERENCE—AND IF HAD FOCED ON GRLWALD, ULD EVEN HAVE ADD MUCH-NEED DIMENSN TO A CHARACTER WHO FEELS TOO MUCH LIKE A WHE-HAIRED VOLMORT RETREAD. AND WHILE N MAKE SENSE FOR CHARACTERS HISTORIL FICTN TO LIVE SI THE CLOSET, WOULD BE NICE TO AT LEAST SEE THEIR OPPRSN ACKNOWLEDGED. IF DUMBLEDORE HAD TO SUPPRS THIS PART OF HIS LIFE FOR S, ONE WOULD THK THAT WOULD PROVI SOME TERTG AVENU ON WHICH THE FILM ULD TRAVEL. BUT SEEMS FANTASTIC BEASTS WOULD RATHER EXPLORE CHARACTER VELOPMENT THROUGH AN EXPLIBLE ALTERNATIVE: MAKG EZRA MILLER DUMBLEDORE’S LONG-LOST SECRET BROTHER STEAD.MOST POPULARINSI ALL OF US STRANGERS, ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYBY DAVID CANFIELDAND JT LIKE THAT… HERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3BY HILLARY BISOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLLRA BRADLEY
- THE INTER MA DUMBLEDORE GAY
IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED
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. * dumbledore gay *
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?
J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY
Is Dumbledore gay? Why J.K. Rowlg's ntual LGBT character revisnism the 'Fantastic Beast' anchise is gettg old for Harry Potter fans * dumbledore gay *
When Alb Dumbledore Was Confirmed To Be Gay. 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.
IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? WHY J.K. ROWLG'S NTUAL CHARACTER REVISNISM IS GETTG OLD
Dumbledore is fally g out as gay and he is dog so a subtle manner the new Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore clip. * dumbledore gay *
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.
SO, HOW GAY IS ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ EXACTLY?
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” However, Fantastic Beasts never explicly ma clear Dumbledore is gay.
Why Fantastic Beasts Don't Explicly Confirm That Dumbledore Is Gay. However, the film qutn never explicly stat that Alb is gay.
SEVEN CLU THAT ‘POTTER’S’ DUMBLEDORE WAS 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 .
DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD FALLY GET THEIR GAY MOMENT FANTASTIC BEASTS 3
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 WANTS YOU TO KNOW HOW GAY DUMBLEDORE REALLY WAS
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?
DUMBLEDORE IS GAY, BUT SHOULD HE HAVE BEEN?
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??? "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.
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.
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. 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.
JK ROWLG IS FACG A BACKLASH OVER THE DUMBLEDORE/GRLWALD GAY RELATNSHIP REVEAL
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.
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD AND DUMBLEDORE’S VEXG SEXUALYAS EXPECTED, THE FILM ALLUS TO DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S ROMANTIC PAST THROUGH HEAVY-HAND IMPLITN.BY LRA BRADLEYNOVEMBER 15, 2018COURTY OF WARNER BROS.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHIS POST NTAS SPOILERS FOR FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD.OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, PROPERTI ACROSS JT ABOUT EVERY GENRE OF FILM AND TELEVISN HAVE BEEN LLED OUT FOR DMMG UP TERT BY TOUTG THE PRENCE OF QUEER OR QUEER-D CHARACTERS, ONLY TO WHIFF THE PROJECTS THEMSELV BY ONLY NODDG VAGUELY TOWARD THE SEXUALI OF THOSE CHARACTERS—AND RENRG THEM VIRTUALLY IRRELEVANT. THE TREND MAY HAVE REACHED S ZENH WHEN BILL CONDON, WHO DIRECTED THE 2017 LIVE-ACTN VERSN OF BETY AND THE BEAST, HYPED THE MOVIE BY SAYG A PRE-RELEASE TERVIEW THAT WOULD CLU AN “EXCLIVELY GAY MOMENT”—WHICH END UP BEG A BRIEF SCENE WHICH JOSH GAD DANCED WH ANOTHER MAN.MANY A NIZEN OF HARRY POTTERDOM HAD HIGHER HOP FOR THIS WEEK’S FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIM OF GRLWALD. THE ENSEMBLE FILM VOLV A CHARACTER, ALB DUMBLEDORE, WHOM POTTER VENTOR J.K. ROWLG CLARED TO BE GAY, RIGHT AFTER WRAPPG THE SEVEN-BOOK SERI. (IT WAS ONLY THE FIRST OF MANY EX POST FACTO EDS AND ADDNS SHE WOULD EVENTUALLY MAKE TO HER MEGA-POPULAR ANCHISE.) EVEN AFTER NEWS BROKE THAT DUMBLEDORE AND HIS FORMER LOVER, GELLERT GRLWALD, WOULD NOT BE “EXPLICLY” GAY THE FILM, A QUTN HAS LGERED ABOUT HOW, EXACTLY, THE MOVIE WOULD ADDRS THE SUBJECT.DUMBLEDORE’S SEXUALY NEVER PLAYED AN EXPLIC ROLE THE BOOK SERI, EHER—BUT THE FANTASTIC BEASTS ANCHISE ST S GAZE TOWARD DUMBLEDORE AND HIS OLD FLAME GRLWALD’S PAST, GIVG ROWLG (WHO WR THE SCRIPTS FOR THE FANTASTIC BEASTS FILMS) AND DIRECTOR DAVID YAT A CHANCE TO RPORATE THAT FOOTNOTE TO THIS FICTNAL WORLD’S NON. BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT THE FILM SELF WOUND UP DOG. THROUGHOUT THE CRIM OF GRLWALD, DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S BOND IS SCRIBED, SO MANY WORDS, AS “LIKE BROTHERS, ONLY CLOSER”—ALL LONGG LOOKS AND BLOOD PACTS, LI OF ANY REAL ROMANCE.THOUGH THE SEND FANTASTIC BEASTS MOVIE HAS TIME FOR MULTIPLE CHARACTERS AND SUBPLOTS—TOO MANY, FACT!—THERE ARE ONLY A FEW FLEETG MOMENTS WHICH THE FILM DIRECTLY ADDRS DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S PAST. THE FIRST AS AN AUROR TRI TO NVCE DUMBLEDORE TO HELP TAKE GRLWALD DOWN. WHEN DUMBLEDORE EXPRS RELUCTANCE, THE OFFICER ASKS IF “THIS” IS THE REASON—STG A SPELL THAT SHOWS A SHADOWY YOUNG DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD LOOKG AT ONE ANOTHER. THE TWO WERE LIKE BROTHERS, HE SAYS. DUMBLEDORE’S REPLY? “WE WERE CLOSER THAN BROTHERS.” IN ANOTHER, LATER FLASHBACK, THE TWO ARE SHOWN EXECUTG A BLOOD PACT— LI OF KISSG OR SHOWG ANY OTHER SORT OF OUTWARD AFFECTN. IN PERHAPS THE MOST EXPLIC MOMENT THE ENTIRE FILM, DUMBLEDORE SE GRLWALD’S IMAGE THE MIRROR OF ERISED. AS DUMBLEDORE WOULD LATER TELL HARRY POTTER, THE MIRROR “SHOWS NOTHG MORE OR LS THEN THE EPT AND MOST SPERATE SIR OF ONE’S HEART.”THIS RELIANCE ON IMPLITN IS TRATG, PERHAPS, BUT UNRSTANDABLE; GIANT, FAY-IENDLY TENTPOLE FILMS DON’T TEND TO GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO RPORATE NTENT THAT CERTA MOGRAPHICS MIGHT FD NTROVERSIAL. THE WORST PART, THOUGH, IS THAT THE FILM TRI TO HAVE S KE AND EAT TOO. IT THROWS FANS A FEW BON BY ALLUDG TO DUMBLEDORE AND GRLWALD’S RELATNSHIP, YET DUMBLEDORE SEEMS UNWILLG OR UNABLE TO ADM THAT SAID RELATNSHIP WAS ROMANTIC. EVEN MORE PUZZLGLY, DUMBLEDORE NEVER EXPLAS WHY HE N’T BE HONT ABOUT THAT ASPECT OF HIS BOND WH GRLWALD.ONE HAS TO ASSUME THAT HOMOPHOBIA RAN RAMPANT THE WIZARDG WORLD THE 1920S, JT AS DID THE HUMAN WORLD—BUT THE NCEPT OF ANTI-GAY SENTIMENT IS AS VAGUE THE FILM AS THE NCEPT OF HOMOSEXUALY. IT’S REMISCENT OF LAST YEAR’S THE GREATT SHOWMAN, ANOTHER PERD PIECE THAT NSISTENTLY ALLUS TO THE DARK FORC KEEPG ZENDAYA’S CHARACTER AND ZAC EON’S CHARACTER APART WHOUT EVER DIRECTLY MENTNG RACISM. AS A RULT, THE RELATNSHIP RGS HOLLOW—LIKE A PLOT VICE OR A NARRATIVE NOVELTY SERTED PURELY SO THE FILM ULD CHECK OFF A BOX THE LEAST OFFENSIVE WAY.IT’S EASY TO IMAGE HOW THIS STORY LE ULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED DIFFERENTLY. EVEN ONE MORE WELL-PLACED FLASHBACK WOULD HAVE MA ALL THE DIFFERENCE—AND IF HAD FOCED ON GRLWALD, ULD EVEN HAVE ADD MUCH-NEED DIMENSN TO A CHARACTER WHO FEELS TOO MUCH LIKE A WHE-HAIRED VOLMORT RETREAD. AND WHILE N MAKE SENSE FOR CHARACTERS HISTORIL FICTN TO LIVE SI THE CLOSET, WOULD BE NICE TO AT LEAST SEE THEIR OPPRSN ACKNOWLEDGED. IF DUMBLEDORE HAD TO SUPPRS THIS PART OF HIS LIFE FOR S, ONE WOULD THK THAT WOULD PROVI SOME TERTG AVENU ON WHICH THE FILM ULD TRAVEL. BUT SEEMS FANTASTIC BEASTS WOULD RATHER EXPLORE CHARACTER VELOPMENT THROUGH AN EXPLIBLE ALTERNATIVE: MAKG EZRA MILLER DUMBLEDORE’S LONG-LOST SECRET BROTHER STEAD.MOST POPULARINSI ALL OF US STRANGERS, ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYBY DAVID CANFIELDAND JT LIKE THAT… HERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3BY HILLARY BISOUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLLRA BRADLEY
Rowlg tweeted back: “Maybe bee gay people jt look like… people?
THE INTER MA DUMBLEDORE GAY
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. 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.