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.
Contents:
- SEVEN CLU THAT ‘POTTER’S’ DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY
- 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?
- IS THERE ANY TEXTUAL EVINCE TO SUPPORT THAT DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY?
- J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY
- IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED
- DUMBLEDORE IS GAY, BUT SHOULD HE HAVE BEEN?
SEVEN CLU THAT ‘POTTER’S’ DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY
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 book quotes *
Rowlg announced she had always imaged one of the ma characters the “Harry Potter” seri -- Alb Dumbledore -- to be gay. 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.
IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? WHY J.K. ROWLG'S NTUAL CHARACTER REVISNISM IS GETTG OLD
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.
SO, HOW GAY IS ‘FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE,’ EXACTLY?
And the end, the fact that we never would have gused is what mak Dumbledore beg gay so real. So many tim I have enuntered iends who are gay that I never would have predicted.
IS THERE ANY TEXTUAL EVINCE TO SUPPORT THAT DUMBLEDORE WAS GAY?
Rowlg first clared that Alb Percival Wulic Brian Dumbledore, Hogwarts headmaster and half-moon-spectacle enthiast, was 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.
J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY
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! '" 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.
IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED
When a Twter er told her they uldn't "see [Dumbledore] that way, " Rowlg replied, "Maybe bee gay people jt look like… people? 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.
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.
DUMBLEDORE IS GAY, BUT SHOULD HE HAVE BEEN?
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. 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.