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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Re: Dumbledore gay
Date: Sunday, 21 October 2007 01:46 pm (UTC)Personally I am not at all bothered about the fact that the one character who is confirmed as being gay is not perfectly wonderful. I am allergic to gay-bashing, but I roll my eyes at the idealisation of homosexuality as well. Homosexuality is human, and human beings are flawed. Dumbledore as a character is interesting, and possibly more so because it turns out he was flawed and could be pretty ruthless. The important thing to me is that unlike other twists in canon and the interviews, the revelation of Dumbledore's homosexuality does not strike me as contrived or unexpected. It has, as far as I am concerned, a firm foundation in the text.
As for the goat sex, it is not the only instance in which JKR treads a fine line in the books ("Hey Lavender! I can see Uranus!" did make me frown at Ron's, er, interests, but that was only a mild instance). Surely I cannot be the only reader who thinks that there are very strong hints at Fenrir Greyback being a pedophile? The series is, to me at least, a very odd mixture between adult and children's material.
These last few interviews seem almost manic in a way.
Yes, I agree. I wish she would stop giving them. She doesn't seem to be able to leave well enough alone. I mean, not that I think she did a particularly brilliant job tying her series together, but interviews are not a remedy to everything she neglected to do in her text.