Dumbledore is gay!!!

[sigune]

YAAAAAAAAAYYYY! Dumbledore is gay!!!!

...I'm sorry, I should not perhaps be all whoopee about this, it's a bit childish... The thing is that Dumbledore is the one character in canon who has always given off a gay vibe to me. I have read slash with Snape, with Lupin, with Ron and Harry and Draco - just about everyone. But none of these characters ever seemed gay to me. Dumbledore did. He always did. Seriously. I'm not sure I can explain why, but it was just there.

Because I am into Queer Studies, and many of my favourite artists were/are gay, and I actually like to write about gay characters, it troubled me a little that I could never see that in Snape or Lupin or James or Sirius or whoever. I mean, it's sort of my job to detect that sort of thing. But Dumbledore... Ha! What a relief! Finally Rowling said something in an interview that makes me really, really happy. Happy because she did include a queer character, and supremely happy because I spotted it :D.

I wish I could refer you to a post or a comment as proof of my long-standing belief in Gaydore, but I'm afraid I no longer remember where to look for one. You'll just have to trust me to speak the truth :-).

Yay! Yaaaaayyy!!

*goes off to celebrate*

Comments

[nemesister.livejournal.com]

Yay yay yay! I called Albus/Gellert canon ever since HBP and it was only ... a quarter in jest. No idea if I ever cared for Dumbles' sexuality before, but right now I can't imagine that I ever saw him as straight, because that's just all kinds of wrong!

[sigune.livejournal.com]

I was really frightened for a while that in DH Rowling would tell us that Dumbledore had (had) a wife and offspring. That would be so off, somehow. I just knew he was gay; I would have hated her to prove me wrong XD. But truth to tell, I never expected her to be so explicit the other way around!

This isn't going to make me write Dumbleslash. It's just one of these things I like to have at the back of my head :-).

[nemesister.livejournal.com]

Oops, when I said HBP, I of course meant DH, I'm not that clairvoyant!

Yes, I never expected her to be that explicit either. I don't even know why. I guess I conditioned myself not to think of author's intent when it comes to slash ships - or I just don't care about author's intent when something makes perfect sense in canon anyway and since she never spoke about Dumbles' sexuality or anyone's homosexuality I didn't really expect her to start.

Anyway, awesome.