I am so happy. There is a gay couple in canon after all.

[dumbledore11214]

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> dumbledore11214 blessed us with this gem On 20/10/2007 10:47:
> 
> > "First, the biggest revelation of the night came when Jo 
revealed 
to
> > her audience the fact that Albus Dumbledore is gay


CJ wrote:
> Well, I'd have to dispute the subject line: "There is a gay couple 
in 
> canon". I'd say this is another clear case of a difference between 
a 
> character in her head and the one on the page. If the character in 
JKR's 
> mind is homosexual, that's fine. But there's nothing of it in the 
canon.


Alla:

I am afraid I do not accept the dispute, LOL. What Magpie said I can 
accept if transcript turns out to have the *unrequited* part, 
although 
even then DD and Grindelwad can still be gays, no?

I mean, I like comparison with Snape here very much.

But what there is nothing of in canon? Dumbledore having sex? 
Dumbledore kissing, thinking of other man?

There is none of that indeed, but there are all those mentions that 
Jen mentioned and Ceridwen which totally play out as hints in my 
head.

And that reference by Rita to pedophilia? Oh yeah, I think this is 
part of the character backstory that JKR had in her mind for a long 
time, it seems to me. That DD was gay, not pedophile.

No, I did not think it was true or predicted it, but I burned with 
Sirius/ Remus, so am pleased, heheh.

In any event, I am certainly taking JKR interviews with more caution 
now, but certainly not something like this, which is IMO fact and 
not 
innterpretation, so I accept that Dumbledore was intended to be gay.

Nobody has to think of him as such, but I do now. And whether there 
is 
a gay man or gay couple in canon, I am still happy.

I seem to remember one of my favorite writers ever Neil Gaiman 
mentioning once that one of his characters in Neverwhere is gay and 
that he did not mention it absolutely deliberately.

He did not want character to be defined by his sexual orientation, 
maybe JKR had same rationale in mind.

JMO,

Alla.