Dumbledore is gay!!!
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siguneYAAAAAAAAAYYYY! 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*
...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*
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Date: Sunday, 21 October 2007 01:55 am (UTC)I've concluded that Jo was bound by adherence to the genre of children's lit to depict adults as sanitized and sexless. Who's intimate life do we know anything about? Ron & Hermione's unstated longings, Harry and Cho's chaste kiss. Hmmm, something missing?
The married Weasleys, the Dursleys, not even they had a whiff of erotic life.
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Date: Monday, 22 October 2007 06:31 pm (UTC)I thought of the children's lit thing too, and I can't say I was ever bothered by the books' lack of eroticism. It's a bit puzzling to me that she starts to throw out things like Dumbledore's sexuality. I can see no reason for it. I'm not annoyed by it, just because it confirms one of my pet theories, but I think she would be better off leaving her books alone...