Jk rowling dumbledore is gay

October Rowling reveals Dumbledore is gay. The author appeared at Carnegie Hall in to answer fan questions after the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. When asked. J.K. Rowling has confirmed that some of the characters in the "Harry Potter" universe are gay. Some fans, however, are perturbed that these characters don't actually identify as gay in. “Harry Potter” author J.K.

Rowling revealed in that the Hogwarts School headmaster was gay after the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the final book in the boy wizard. Many have called out Rowling, pointing out that there’s no point saying Dumbledore was gay in interviews and featurettes when his sexuality is entirely brushed under the carpet in the books and.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has revealed that one of her characters, Hogwarts school headmaster Albus Dumbledore, is gay. She made her revelation to a packed house in New York's Carnegie. Jan Posted by demiandproud. In hindsight, I think rather the tragic celibate gay man should have been foreshadowing of her queerphobia, given the parallels with homophobic propaganda in conservative christian spheres.

Let us use this character as a magical introduction to the key role queer people are made to play in their own oppression, within purity culture. And why asexuality may serve as a long-awaited Finite. As a teen, I could quote the books the way serious bible-thumpers could pull out a verse for every occasion. I bought paper and printer cartridges with pocket money so I could print out my favourite epic slash fiction to read on vacation, back when wireless internet was rare and smartphones were for adults.

So my heart soared, along with millions of others, when Word of Rowling came down that, yes, canon contained a gay character, our beloved quirky mentor. But on the threshold between and , Albus Dumbledore reads like a conservative gay young man who fell for charismatic fascist Gellert Grindelwald. After failing his family, he repented, too late, and forever after led the life of an eccentric celibate bachelor who guides bright young minds to lead a better life than he did.

He denounced all sexual activity in order to focus on working for the greater good. At the end of his life, he personally mentors a promising, powerful young man, Harry Potter, who was mistreated because he was different, because a similar young man, Tom Marvolo Riddle, that he ignored, became an evil terrorist like his one-and-only love. So he guides Harry Potter into a life of heroic sacrifice that will kill the evil inside of him.

Harry survives to live in middle-class bliss with a wife and children. Instead, God gave them a great challenge to overcome, same-sex attraction or maybe the feeling of being born in the wrong body. They might hear Jackie Hill Perry, a queer woman of colour, sarcastic exclamation mark! An older queer christian might point them towards therapy or offer informal counseling that, yes, is indeed a form of conversion therapy.

As Albus Dumbledore guided Harry Potter to nobly sacrifice his life to kill the horcrux inside of himself, that evil embodied by Tom Riddle, queer Christians only need to sacrifice their queer selves so they can live happily-ever-after. Every church will tell a queer person they are welcome.

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This approach is codified in the doctrine Love the sinner, hate the sin. The repentant queer person has the starring role, as both road map and trojan horse. Save the person, kill the gay or trans , and be granted the blessed living death of never coming out and never transitioning. Looking back, Albus Dumbledore reads a lot like J. He even kills the innocent white woman in his care, the capital crime in western literature.

Finally victorious, posthumously, in Harry.

In all this, note that celibacy, or the not having queer sex, has become the crowning mark of salvation for the queer person, to modern purity culture. Note, too, that virginity, the not having of sex, is the more traditional mark of the virtuous young white woman. Abstinence, the not having of extra-marital sex, is the gold standard for the heterosexual person.

The central conceit of purity culture is that lust is the most powerful force of evil and thus controlling it, by strict rules, lifestyle and yes, choice, leads to the eponymous purity. The intra-marital sex is the heterosexual reward this side of heaven. Asexuality undermines that central conceit. It queers sexual attraction — lust — by making a spectrum of orientations for it.