JKR messed up

[Tiffany B. Clark]

No: HPFGUIDX 178346

bboyminn:

I'm going to have to agree with the others, Dumbledore being gay is 
merely an interesting 'outside the story' background tidbit. It has
nothing to do with the story at all. As I said, we don't see
Dumbledore flouncing around and camping it up.

Dumbledore being gay has no more to do with this series than Walt
Whitman being gay has to do with poetry, or Da Vinci being gay has
anything to do with artwork, or Hans Christian Anderson being gay has
to do with fairy tales. It is an interesting and curious bit of
information, but not really relevant to the art or story itself. 

Tiffany:

I had my suspicions about DD's love interests for a long time because 
I've got some real good GLBT friends in college.  However, it was a 
nice tidbit to learn about, but really wasn't anything that'd 
interfere with theme & element development, even if it was revealed 
in the canonical novels themselves.

Even if it's true in the novels that DD had some gay desires, it's at 
best a nice footnote.  It's hardly anything that'd be enough to 
disrupt the overall themes & elements of the novels themselves.  Just 
because a character is gay, lesbian, or bisexual in a work of 
literature isn't enough to be a death blow to it, same with the 
author.  The finished prduct should be so good that it speaks for 
itself, independent of outside factors that're minor issues in 
respect to what was accompished.