I'm going OT and I'm sorry to be a party-pooper but I have issues with the Dumbledore example.
When JKR revealed the fact that he was gay, it was very much after the fact, not only had he died years before, it had been said once the canonic story was over.
It's very nice piquancy to talk about the old man being gay, but it had no relevance to the story as she told it and once again, it showed that gay love is doomed - it would appear that Dumbledore loved Grindelwald and then loved no one else. Ever. Because that's what JKR answered when someone asked if Dumbledore was ever in love, her answer was "he was gay". To me that says, he was gay and therefore his love was doomed.
People may have cheered the declaration, but where was he in the actual storyline and why out him after a book in which the ugliest stereotypes about Gay men were told about him (being a child molester, comes to mind from Rita Skeeter's biography)?
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When JKR revealed the fact that he was gay, it was very much after the fact, not only had he died years before, it had been said once the canonic story was over.
It's very nice piquancy to talk about the old man being gay, but it had no relevance to the story as she told it and once again, it showed that gay love is doomed - it would appear that Dumbledore loved Grindelwald and then loved no one else. Ever. Because that's what JKR answered when someone asked if Dumbledore was ever in love, her answer was "he was gay".
To me that says, he was gay and therefore his love was doomed.
People may have cheered the declaration, but where was he in the actual storyline and why out him after a book in which the ugliest stereotypes about Gay men were told about him (being a child molester, comes to mind from Rita Skeeter's biography)?