Is Dumbledore Gay? Depends on Definitions of ?Is? and ?Gay?

[colebiancardi]

> 
> Tonks:
> Thank you for that article. It says what I have been trying to say, 
> and says it better, of course. A wizard at DD's level is above such 
> mundane things as sex. The article compares DD to other great 
> wizards who are also celebate. 
> 
> Also we must not forget that DD was an Alchemist. That is about 
> lofty things and higher stages of development. Too bad Hans isn't 
> still on this list, he would point that out also.
> 
 
colebiancardi:

forgive me, but I do not feel that sex is either mundane nor base(as
you posted in your previous post).  However, DD could be celebate AND
gay at the same time;  just as many straights are celebate.  I do not
believe that JKR stated that DD was having sex, just that he was in
love (or had a crush) on GG. 

I do not believe that DD would think that loving someone, which could
INVOLVE sex, would be beneath him.   Remember what McGonngall said
when Tonks revealed she was in love with Lupin - that DD would approve.

I had never thought of DD having a relationship at the time Harry was
at school, but that was due to his age, not to his loftly status in
the WW community.  I had entertained thoughts that he had been in love
several times, and seemed to be a bit of a flirt.  Heck, I had even
thought that someone close to him that he had loved had been killed by
Voldy.

Even Merlin had sex, which had disasterous results, but it proved that
even those lonely and high-browed types wanted, craved, and needed
that type of physical and emotional connection that comes from being
in love & having sex.

sex is not a baser function, nor is it mundane.  For committed
couples, sex is an intiminate act that brings a couple closer and is
not done on instinct.

colebiancardi