Dumbledore is gay

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Lee Storm wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/33650>:

<< I can only hope she said this to be "politically correct" and that
the truth is something a bit more in line with what many of us would
expect from Dumbledore. Celibacy would be preferable. >>

A person can be homosexual and a life-long celibate. In Albus's case,
at 18-19 years old, he could have been so naive that he never noticed
that his impression that his new friend was totally wonderful and a
soul-mate contained an element of sexual attraction. 

(I absolutely believe that phrases like 'infatuated' and 'fell in
love' don't have to be sexual. I could say that So-and-so fell in love
with some movie and watched it six times in one week, or that
So-and-so is so infatuated with his new car that he spends all his
free time washing and polishing it. Reading young Albus's letter to
Gellaert, it was obvious that Albus had fallen in love with Gellaert
in that not-necessarily-sexual way. Naturally, I suspected there was a
sexual element as well and wondered if Rowling had intended it.)

The article said something about the movie script made some mention of
a girl whom Dumbledore had once fancied, so Rowling had to tell the
director not to say that, and why. I.e. that he never was erotically
or romantically attracted to a female. If so, I strongly suspect that
at some time in his long life, Dumbledore figured out WHY he never met
the right woman, but that doesn't mean he ever had a male lover. He
might even have agreed with you about Christian morality and used
self-control in the face of temptation. Or he never met anyone else he
was attracted to after Gellaert. Or he put up emotional barriers after
the Gellaert debacle to avoid intimacy and its risk of heartbreak. 

Not that it would bothe *me* if he slept with a different consenting
adult man every week for a hundred years.

Random832 wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/33658>:

<< I got the impression that her statement of her own disgust was not
at Dumbledore being gay *per se*, but rather (you snipped this) that
it seems like JKR was just going down a checklist "hmm, need a
character to be gay, who can it be?", and that it (or, rather, _any_
kind of relationship) doesn't, in her opinion, fit Dumbledore at all.
I.e. sacrificing coherent characterization for "political correctness". >>

As I mentioned above, stating the young Albus fell in love with
Gellaert seems to me like absolutely coherent characterization.

And I felt much more queasy over the presentation that it was the
heartbreak of the death of his sister that kept him from ever falliing
in love again. 

What I don't like is that Rowling indicated that he never felt
romantically or erotically attracted to a woman (and not because he
never felt attracted to *any*one because his heart was faithful to his
firat beloved or whatever). I've always wanted him bi-sexual.