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Dumbledore is Gay?!
October 23, 2007 Posted in News
I decided to get out of town for the weekend. You know, head to the country where my cell phone doesn’t get service, my computer doesn’t get internet and my hair doesn’t get…clean.
And, obviously, on this particular weekend huge things happened in the world of pop culture and entertainment, which leave me with hundreds of emails and tons of voicemails upon my return. Note: hair extremely greasy.
Um. Dumbledore is gay!?
What? How on earth did I miss that? I mean, really; how the hell did I miss that?
I have read every single Harry Potter book…3 times.
I majored in English in college, meaning I learned the art of reading between the lines in all sorts of texts.
I am a total fag-hag and love (absolutely adore) gay men.
If anyone should have seen that one coming it would have been me.
I am not saying that I am some genius (though, if you would like to think of me as one I am more than happy to agree), but I am saying that I am always on the lookout for interesting sub-plots and the meaning behind everything an author writes. Especially when it involves fabulous and powerful gay men.
So, if JK had indeed intended Dumbledore to be gay from the beginning, I would have seen it. And I did not. There was no pink décor in Dumbledore’s office. There were no saucy memories of late nights in Hogsmeade’s most hoppin’ gay bars floating around the Penseive. There wasn’t even an inkling of interest between Dumbles (as I like to call him) and Cedric Diggory, and how could any gay man not fall for that boy’s eyes, not to mention his skills on the Quiddich pitch?
And, let us not forget just how shady it all would be if Dumbledore really were gay. The man’s protégé was an 11 year old boy, after all! Reminds me of one Mr. Mark Foley, no?
But that is not my biggest issue. My issue is that JK wrote 7 books (7!) without once making mention or reference to Dumbledore’s homosexuality. Sure, now she claims that there was a little sumthin’ sumthin’ going on between Dumbles and Grindelwald, that it was his “great tragedy,” but why is this the first we are hearing about it? Why not delve into this a little more at some point during her thousands of written pages?
If she is truly trying to make a statement and teach a lesson regarding homosexuality by writing such a strong and pivotal character as a gay man, why not really go for it?
Is it, perhaps, that she came up with this twist right there on the spot at Carnegie Hall? That maybe she simply wants to revive the recently waning interest in her precious books? Draw people back to the theaters for the final installments of HP movies? Could it be that this is just some huge publicity ploy?
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Ekatz says:
Tue, 23rd Oct 20075:05 pm
Can you say……..Desperate?! I agree if Dumbeldore was gay, I think
there would have been some mention or at least a flash of a secret and
peculiar tryst. I mean not even an honorable mention, rainbow pin, or
extra
flash of pizzazz. JK should have read the blog about "When your
friends
grow up faster than you" Honestly, It is my opinion that Harry should
have
road off into the sunset with the last movie or better yet the one
before
that. It would seem JK's fans have grown up fast than Harry and have
lost
interest in him. P.S. Making Dumbedore gay will not bring them back.
How
about hooking Harry up with Herminey next time? That would definitely
shake
up the would be tween crowd into a Harry Potter frenzy and have them
all
decked out in their Sletherine robes waiting for the midnight show.
Meredith says:
Wed, 24th Oct 200710:17 am
First: JK's books are marketed towards kids, so there can be only so much reference to the adults' sexuality.
Second: The book is told through Harry's eyes. Why would he notice his headmaster's sexual preferences?
Third: JK is known for having done a HUGE amount of planning and outlining for each book. She's said herself that every character has a backstory, even if it's only in her head, and she simply didn't have enough space to fit them all in.
Fourth: How is his sexuality relevant to the plots?
And last (in reference to the announcement being a publicity stunt): Does she really need more publicity???
Lauren says:
Thu, 25th Oct 20075:55 am
I would have no problem wiht JK having planned Dumbledore was gay in her mind, but she is blowing it up into a huge movement where she wants to use it as a lesson in tolerance for children. If such a lesson was important to JK, shouldn't she have addressed it before? If she had never come out and said anything about it then no one would have EVER known and no lesson would have ever been presented.
jason says:
Thu, 25th Oct 20077:56 am
I cant believe that she EVEN said that.
She SHOULDNT have said that.
I mean… i suppose that i have no room to talk, on accound that im extremely anti gay
(if i could i would start a gay killing mafia >:D )
but apparently some little kid asked her "Did dumbledore even find love?"
and JK answered " No, he was gay" or something along those lines…. which brings the question to me if she was saying that gay people dont find love LOL
but honestly. there is no reference that he was gay. I think she was just saying that to get on the gay's side. (or rear, HAHA)
Alysse says:
Fri, 26th Oct 200710:40 am
Not all gays have to be flamboyant, bar hopping, and molesting little boys – I think that may have been her point in creating such an intelligent man, with varied interests, who happened to like other men. THAT is what tolerance is about, not perpetuating stereotypes, even positive ones.
I don't mind people who dislike gays, either (I'm not a lesbian, so it doesn't directly affect me). But when someone says they want to create a gay killing mafia and then, while quoting the issue, says "or something along those lines"…
Please be specific about things if people's lives hypothetically hang in the balance.
kurt says:
Sun, 23rd Dec 20073:55 am
wow. so because dumbledore didn't fit the stereotype of an oversexed child-molesting pervert with the decorating sense of an old lady, he OBVIOUSLY couldn't be gay? because obviously you, as a fag hag, know everything about gay men.
many gay HP fans that i talked to were not in the least bit surprised, especially after that backstory about grindelwald. sounds like you need to check your assumptions.