Is Dumbledore Gay? Alb' Relatnship Wh Grlwald Explaed

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

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

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.

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

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.

IS THERE ANY TEXTUAL EVINCE TO SUPPORT THAT DUMBLEDORE WAS 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!

J.K. ROWLG RPONDS TO GAY DUMBLEDORE NTROVERSY

'" 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?

IS DUMBLEDORE GAY? ALB' RELATNSHIP WH GRLWALD EXPLAED

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.

DUMBLEDORE IS GAY, BUT SHOULD HE HAVE BEEN?

“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.

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 ?