Dumbledore pride tees
Two days after JK Rowling disclosed that she'd "always thought Dumbledore was gay", there are already these Dumbledore Pride tees -- "Wizards are Gay" and "I Always Knew." (My favorite meme about this -- the various bloggers using headlines like "Wizard is Friend of Dorothy.") Link (via Kottke)
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I suggest that "Dumbledore's Army" be the new "Friend of Dorothy".
Extremely weird. Why on Earth would Rowling even bother mentioning he was gay? The question to her was 'will Dumbledore find true love?' 'he is gay' is not an answer. What does being gay have to do with finding true love? Is Rowling suggesting gays can't find true love?
It hints at the fact that he'd already found, and lost, his true love. Besides, it's probably just covering up for the fact that she'd not had an actual 'out' character in all the books, which helped it to appeal to the middle of the road mainstream type parents. Then she follows up by appeasing the (ever too easily at times) offended gay community by announcing that one of the characters had secretly been gay all the time, pulling the rabbit out of a hat type of thing.
There's a t-shirt idea, Dumbledore pulling a pink rabbit out of a hat, with the caption "Surprise!"
And come on, ship the damn t-shirts to the rest of the world, I want the orange one!
It sounds to me as if Rowling has been struck in the face by the sobering realization that her money ticket has come and gone. Her postmortem discussion of this character reeks of a potential spin-off.
dammit! a day late and a dollar short yet again. i was just dreaming up ideas for a shirt last night. oh well. at least i'm in dumbledore's army.
Made in DNA:
My understanding (for which I can't cite references, since I heard it during a verbal conversation) is that during work on the next movie, there were bits of dialog that alluded to a female love interest for Dumbledore. Rowling spoke up and said they couldn't do that because he was gay. Once the cat was out of the bag...
I have to aggree that saying this is just weird.
I doubt it's about the money as I'm sure she'll make truckloads of it for a very long time still.
Maybe she wrote the character based on someone she knew and that person happens to be gay. Living in the gay village I wonder if I'll see those shirts popup.
@ Yurei
Er... right. "Sobering realization" indeed. God knows that at her current lifestyle, she'll be dangerously low on funds in 4 or 5 hundred years.
"It sounds to me as if Rowling has been struck in the face by the sobering realization that her money ticket has come and gone."
Oh i know, she'd probably struggling to make ends meet, right?
@ Malex
You forgot interest. Based on what I know of her current lifestyle, she could never run out of money until the fall of our civilization.
Then again, that might not even be four or five hundred years off.
So will the Dumbledore is gay announcement increase the amount of Dumbledore-related slash fiction? Or will it make slash irrelevant because Dumbledore really is gay? Will there be a new genre, "backslash" (as one person put it) where Dumbledore's sexual orientation gets flipped toward heterosexuality?
Way to go, Rowling - writing a gay character so vapidly that nobody suspected until you had to specifically say it was so after the last book was written. Way to take a stand.
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