Comments on: Gay Geekery: Dumbledore is Dead, Gay? http://thenewgay.net/2009/08/dumbledore-is-dead-gay.html For Everyone Over the Rainbow Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:03:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: michael http://thenewgay.net/2009/08/dumbledore-is-dead-gay.html#comment-13941 michael Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:26:23 +0000 http://thenewgay.net/?p=12586#comment-13941 I haven't spent any time in the HP universe, but I find it interesting that the grand wizard of hogwarts is a homo and resembles so much Gandalf from LOTR, who's actor is gay. I find great comfort in imagining these older, nurturing, white-bearded men providing council and support to younger generation of gays. I haven’t spent any time in the HP universe, but I find it interesting that the grand wizard of hogwarts is a homo and resembles so much Gandalf from LOTR, who’s actor is gay. I find great comfort in imagining these older, nurturing, white-bearded men providing council and support to younger generation of gays.

]]> By: JM http://thenewgay.net/2009/08/dumbledore-is-dead-gay.html#comment-13922 JM Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:56:32 +0000 http://thenewgay.net/?p=12586#comment-13922 Jackie, I would really love to hear you write about the Dumbledore/Grindelwald relationship, ,they must have been lovers, obviously, and then Grindelwald went bad, etc etc. but that was obviously Dumby's great love. Jackie, I would really love to hear you write about the Dumbledore/Grindelwald relationship, ,they must have been lovers, obviously, and then Grindelwald went bad, etc etc. but that was obviously Dumby’s great love.

]]> By: Hannah http://thenewgay.net/2009/08/dumbledore-is-dead-gay.html#comment-13919 Hannah Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:09:22 +0000 http://thenewgay.net/?p=12586#comment-13919 I felt cheated that Rowling outed Dumbledore after the fact and never actually made his sexuality canon in the sense of it actually being explicit in the text. I really hope it becomes clearer in the next two films (though I expect it will still remain largely subtextual). I think that, culturally, Dumbledore's a kind of character we need right now, for all the reasons that you list. I felt cheated that Rowling outed Dumbledore after the fact and never actually made his sexuality canon in the sense of it actually being explicit in the text. I really hope it becomes clearer in the next two films (though I expect it will still remain largely subtextual). I think that, culturally, Dumbledore’s a kind of character we need right now, for all the reasons that you list.

]]> By: Chris B. Creme http://thenewgay.net/2009/08/dumbledore-is-dead-gay.html#comment-13918 Chris B. Creme Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:55:47 +0000 http://thenewgay.net/?p=12586#comment-13918 It has always struck me that those "extracted memories" in the HP movies look like cum-wads. Which Dumbledore sometimes shakes from the end of his "wand" into a basin of water, which Harry then plunges his face into... (Sorry for being lewd. But as my name might indicate, I am interested in this idea.) Perhaps it could represent the tranmission of "seminal" knowledge (Hogwarts being a sort of seminary, anyway) from a gay man to his younger protege. This would be an alternative to how straight men (more often than gay men) use semen (with their female partners, of course) to literally create the next generation to carry on their legacy. It has always struck me that those “extracted memories” in the HP movies look like cum-wads. Which Dumbledore sometimes shakes from the end of his “wand” into a basin of water, which Harry then plunges his face into… (Sorry for being lewd. But as my name might indicate, I am interested in this idea.)

Perhaps it could represent the tranmission of “seminal” knowledge (Hogwarts being a sort of seminary, anyway) from a gay man to his younger protege. This would be an alternative to how straight men (more often than gay men) use semen (with their female partners, of course) to literally create the next generation to carry on their legacy.

]]> By: geek4Chan http://thenewgay.net/2009/08/dumbledore-is-dead-gay.html#comment-13914 geek4Chan Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:05:15 +0000 http://thenewgay.net/?p=12586#comment-13914 Love it! I wish I had a Dumbledore when I was coming out! :) Love it! I wish I had a Dumbledore when I was coming out! :)

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