Harry Potter News: Dumbledore is Gay. Outted by JK Rowling!

[southcitymom]

"A healthy breeze around the privates" is sorely under-rated, IMO.

Amen, sister!

 

[southcitymom]

......When I was young and foolish, I used to think that we gay people would be better off if we did less to call attention to ourselves. But subsequent events taught me that "invisibility" just makes us more convenient scapegoats. (And there's always somebody who needs a scapegoat.)......

I relate so much to this statement (not regarding the gay issue, per se, but numerous other "truths" I once embraced) Isn't it amazing what a few years of living can do to some of your deeply held beliefs?!

 

[Nova]

I relate so much to this statement (not regarding the gay issue, per se, but numerous other "truths" I once embraced) Isn't it amazing what a few years of living can do to some of your deeply held beliefs?!

Okay, so I voted for Nixon when I was a teenager! You don't have to go on and on about it! "Mr. Nova" never lets me forget it, I promise.

 

[OrdinaryLife]

If anyone needs to apologize, it is I. I prefaced my response with the tricky phrase, "With all due respect." I know that means "Listen up, you idiot!" in some posts and I should have been clearer. I meant it literally: I know you from your posts and I greatly respect your ideas. I didn't for a moment think you were being offensive or unkind. So I am sorry if I gave you that impression.

When I was young and foolish, I used to think that we gay people would be better off if we did less to call attention to ourselves. But subsequent events taught me that "invisibility" just makes us more convenient scapegoats. (And there's always somebody who needs a scapegoat.)

That isn't what you meant, however, and I am very sorry I made you feel you had done anything wrong.

Nova, *Thank you*! Please let me say this.... I am so very grateful, from my heart, that you shared your post with me. You warmed my heart. It is so very difficult as a person who is straight to truly understand what yourself and so many others have gone through. I was also young and foolish once (well, I still am "kinda" foolish, though **still** learning through time, experience, and age!) and I also didn't want to call too much attention to myself. *Invisibility* through being a good daughter, then wife, sibling, and mother. Yes, I also was a convenient scapegoat for my situation/life. No, it is nowhere near the same as living a gay life, but the ramifications of what I thought/lived were no less painful. Who are we to lose our hearts and selves for others, who cannot see the beauty within us all? Why should we allow that? Okay, I'm getting too deep here.

Thank you, Nova. If you should ever use the phrase, "With all due respect" again, I will take it as you typed it. With respect and not fear I insulted you. Unless you say I did! Deal???

 

[OrdinaryLife]

Okay, so I voted for Nixon when I was a teenager! You don't have to go on and on about it! "Mr. Nova" never lets me forget it, I promise.

Hmmm, voted for Nixon as a teen, eh? I do believe your closer to my age than I thought! Did you celebrate the drinking age of 18 years "way back then"??? LOL!

 

[southcitymom]

Okay, so I voted for Nixon when I was a teenager! You don't have to go on and on about it! "Mr. Nova" never lets me forget it, I promise.

Well, I've already admitted to my Reagan indiscretion in 1984....no need to bring it up again here!!!

 

[Texana]

I'm looking forward to the day when announcing something like this won't be front page news. I remember thinking he might be, just reading the last book. Seemed more obvious than not to me, and I'm no great reader of innuendo or subtle hints.

I don't think Rowling meant anything by her actions, honestly, I think it's more a matter of just not being able to leave her characters alone--she's a bit controlling in that sense--or likes the spotlight--or just can't let go of telling everyone rather than just letting the mystery, speculation, and rampant fan fiction proliferate.

I think it's much harder for authors nowadays to walk away from their creations.

 

[Nova]

Hmmm, voted for Nixon as a teen, eh? I do believe your closer to my age than I thought! Did you celebrate the drinking age of 18 years "way back then"??? LOL!

Here's how old I am: the drinking age became 18 all of a sudden when I was 19, but maybe that's what you meant. My memory is that after years of hearing how we would be "legal at 21," it was sort of anti-climactic when we were all legal one summer day. (Which isn't to say we didn't do our share of drinking).

 

[Nova]

Nova, *Thank you*! Please let me say this.... I am so very grateful, from my heart, that you shared your post with me. You warmed my heart. It is so very difficult as a person who is straight to truly understand what yourself and so many others have gone through. I was also young and foolish once (well, I still am "kinda" foolish, though **still** learning through time, experience, and age!) and I also didn't want to call too much attention to myself. *Invisibility* through being a good daughter, then wife, sibling, and mother. Yes, I also was a convenient scapegoat for my situation/life. No, it is nowhere near the same as living a gay life, but the ramifications of what I thought/lived were no less painful. Who are we to lose our hearts and selves for others, who cannot see the beauty within us all? Why should we allow that? Okay, I'm getting too deep here.

Thank you, Nova. If you should ever use the phrase, "With all due respect" again, I will take it as you typed it. With respect and not fear I insulted you. Unless you say I did! Deal???

Deal. Absolutely. And I think I understand what you mean. For the record, I'm not one of those minorities who say, "Nobody else can understand how we feel!" Sure, there are differences between group experiences, just as there are differences between individual experiences, but if there isn't some common human ground where we all can meet, why bother communicating at all? (I think that common ground is why the concepts of the "closet" and "coming out" so quickly came to have non-gay meanings.)