Rowling Says Dumbledore Is Gay

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OK, I have not read eveyone's comments, nor do I plan to. I imagine they will do nothing but pi** me off. I just want to state, to make myself feel better, that Rowling's admission makes no difference to me in my love of the books she has written. She did not broadcast it throught the 10 years these books have been in publication but answered her truthful feelings when asked the question by a child (which she has a right to, since she created the man). I am a devout Christian and feel that, from my religious standpoint, homosexuality is wrong. However, it is not my place to hate someone for their own belief that there is nothing wrong with that. I am not surprised that Dumbledore is gay and will continue to share these books with my children. And one day, if they ask me if Dumbledore is gay, I will not lie to them either. Good for you, J.K.

Dumbledor's sexual preference does not matter. This relevation only suceeds in creating commotion and distracting from the story.

Dumbledor's gender preference is completly irrelevant to the plot. This relevation has only suceeded in creating commotion and distracting from the story.

"The thing I find amusing about the whole thing is that Harry Potter has been loathed by the Christian right from the get-go - they see it as indoctrinating children into witchcraft and evil - so saying that the headmaster of the children's school is a gay witch, that's pretty much their worst nightmare,"

This is just plain stupid. Children's books are not a place to push an agenda. I always found it more interesting to think that a master wizard was too devoted to his magic to have time for any relationship. I am ashamed of Rowling . Just because this is the last of the series, she must really want to make money by tricking pro homosexual people into supporting her

As others before me have said, she didn't make Dumbledore gay until well after the books were written because she knew the books wouldn't have been nearly as popular if she was explicit about Dumbledore's sexual orientation in the them. The fact that she waited until after the books have been written to include this side note about Dumbledore's sexual orientation speaks more to her views on tolerating gay culture than if she had chosen to write Dumbledore as a gay character to begin with. Why couldn't she have left Dumbledore's sexual orientation up to the reader's imagination? It doe nothing to advance the story line. It only serves as a means for her to push so called "progressive" inflammatory views on her readers. I have read all 7 books and I simply don't see Dumbledore's sexual orientation as being relevant to the character as written in any way. She could easily have said that "Dumbledore experienced unrequitted love as a young man" without making a political statement about Dumbledore's sexual orientation. I don't understand why she has to make statements about her character's at all instead of leaving the details of these characters to the readers imagination. All this does is impose increasingly tighter restrictions on the readers imagination. If the reader wants Dumbledore to be gay he can be gay. If he or she wants him to be straight he can be straight. There is nothing gay or straight about the character as written. As for the whole theme of all Christian's being intolerant bigots and racists. Like many others in this country I am a Christian. In my opinion two consenting adults can do whatever they please in the privacy of their own homes as long as their actions don't infringe upon the rights of others. We are not all so narrow minded and bigoted as many of you seem to believe. Making statements about Christians being intolerant bigots and book burners is simpy displaying the same level of intolerance, bigotry, and prejudice that you profess to despise. And the word is tolerance not like or dislike or hate or love. You can tolerate homosexuality and still dislike the idea of it. You can find the idea of two men (or women) having sex to be gross (as many heterosexuals do) and still feel that they have a right to the same freedoms and the same choices as everyone else. If you so choose you can even believe that Dumbledore was a good man, a true hero, and a champion of light, justice, freedom, and love and still feel that homosexuality is not normal (if it was gays would be the majority), homosexuality is an evolutionary dead end for man kind (which it is), and that his image has been tarnished by JKR deciding to "out' him to the whole world.without actually being a homophobe or a gay basher. JKR simply wanted to make a poltical statement that being gay is normal and should be acceptable to every one without hurting her bottom line.

As others before me have said, she didn't make Dumbledore gay until well after the books were written because she knew the books wouldn't have been nearly as popular if she was explicit about Dumbledore's sexual orientation in the them. The fact that she waited until after the books have been written to include this side note about Dumbledore's sexual orientation speaks more to her views on tolerating gay culture than if she had chosen to write Dumbledore as a gay character to begin with. Why couldn't she have left Dumbledore's sexual orientation up to the reader's imagination? It doe nothing to advance the story line. It only serves as a means for her to push so called "progressive" views on her readers. I have read all 7 books and I simply don't see Dumbledore's sexual orientation as being relevant to the character as written in any way. I don't understand why she has to make statements about her character's at all instead of leaving the details of these characters to the readers imagination. All this does is impose increasingly tighter restrictions on the readers imagination. If the reader wants Dumbledore to be gay he can be gay. If he or she wants him to be straight he can be straight. There is nothing gay or straight about the character as written. Now onto the whole theme of all Christian's being intolerant bigots and racists. Like many others in this country I am a Christian. In my opinion two consenting adults can do whatever they please in the privacy of their own homes as long as their actions don't infringe upon the rights of others. We are not all so narrow minded and bigoted as many of you seem to believe. Making statements about Christians being intolerant bigots and book burners is simpy displaying the same level of intolerance, bigotry, and prejudice that you profess to despise. And the word is tolerance not like or dislike or hate or love. You can tolerate homosexuality and still dislike the idea of it. You can find the idea of two men (or women) having sex to be gross (as many heterosexuals do) and still feel that they have a right to the same freedoms and the same choices as everyone else. If you so choose you can believe that Dumbledore was a good man, a true hero, and a champion of light, justice, freedom, and love and still feel that homosexuality is not normal (if it was gays would be the majority), homosexuality is an evolutionary dead end for man kind (which it is), and that his image has been tarnished by JKR deciding to "out' him to the whole world.without actually being a homophobe or a gay basher.

This is a reply to mvrick, apparently your condition is caused by a genetic hiccup, a mutation of sorts, it will be eradicated in the future along with other similar conditions. Do not worry, we blame you no more for your condition than we can a dyslexic for not reading correctly.
Sincerely Stieath

The neo-cons and Christian fundementals want to try have it both ways: they can be open about THEIR sexuality but want gay people to deny theirs. They want gay people to "stop announcing" our sexuality. Ok fair enough, we will stop announcing ours if you: put away YOUR picture frames at work showing your spouse and kids. Do not talk at work about the romantic getaway week you had on a cruise ship with your spouse. Don't hold your spouse's hand at the park, museum, movie theater or at Disney Land. Oh, and ban the movie Snow White because she and the prince actually kiss. And write to all those drug companies and tell them to stop showing those Viagra, Cialis, and Enzyte commercials on TV (especially at dinner time!), showing the smiling man and his coy wife (hopefully it's his wife, they don't really say, you Christians should look into that...). I am a 42 year old male, and growing up I never saw a gay person, movie, or read a "gay" book nor have I ever saw a single gay "I Love Lucy" episode. So what could have influenced me into being a gay person? Maybe satan entered me from the rear and I loved it - or maybe I was just born gay. If I wasn't born that way maybe the Christains should write the same drug companies to come up with an anti-gay suppository to get all that gay gay gay out of me. JK Rowling did not do this for publicity or for money. What IS brilliant is that it forces each of us to examine what we would do or how we would react in the real world (not fictional) if someone you respected and loved your entire life suddently came out. Would you ban them, burn, trash them. Or kill them? What if on the other hand they NEVER told you they were gay. Does that make them NOT gay. Of course not. The only difference is that they told you and YOU changed.

she didn't write that in the book though, so no one has to listen because they dont care about her, just what she writes (but hey thats just my opinion)

Seriously, people just need to get over this. She said that Dumbledore was gay in answer to a kid's question. There is nothing wrong with being gay. To prove my point, if you believe being gay is a sin ask yourself this question. Can I force myself to be with someone of the same sex because that is what is accepted, or do I truly feel that I must stay with a partner of the opposite sex? If you answer that question with a 'no', then you have just proven my point that you cannot choose who you fall in love with.

I'm just a kid so it won't make much difference but I think shes a great author and I hope to someday grow up to be like her. She knows how to do an excelent cliff hanger and I would like to learn how. I'm just an amature author and I'm into writing things more like ghost stories, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

I'm just a kid so it won't make much difference but I think shes a great author and I hope to someday grow up to be like her. She knows how to do an excelent cliff hanger and I would like to learn how. I'm just an amature author and I'm into writing things more like ghost stories, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

Being gay is wrong, thats my opinion.

Yes i would stone my wife to death, she should have stayed in the kitchen.