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

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 178128

allthecoolnamesgone:
> Puts head in hands and groans. Why did we need to be told that 
> Dumbledore is gay? Is it at all relevant to the story as written? The 
> only point that can I think be made is that it influenced the delay 
> in confronting and defeating Gelert. It probably also fed into 
> Dumbledore's guilt complex over his sister's death as well. We don't 
> get any indication in the books of how acceptable homosexuality was 
> in the WW so it is impossible to judge whether fear of 'outting' by 
> Gelert kept Dumbledore inactive against him.

Ceridwen:
We didn't need to be told this.  Canon is closed.  It's like any other 
information from interviews: superfluous.

Unlike other interview information, this actually sheds some light on 
canon for me.  Dumbledore and Grindelwald had their falling out 
sometime in the late 1800s.  After that, GG wreaked havoc without 
opposition.  People begged DD to do something.  Fifty or so years 
later, he did.  I thought that DD having feelings for GG was the most 
likely reason.  He would have wanted to avoid a confrontation on many 
levels.  Being outed, if this was a big deal in the WW of the time, 
would only be one reason.  There are all sorts of emotional issues for 
DD tied up in this.

It's too bad she didn't actually make this canon.  Interviews are 
secondary at best and will probably be relegated to footnotes or 
snippets of information in prefaces of future books.  Not everyone is 
an obsessive footnote-reader like me.

Ceridwen.