ABC News: Outing Gives Potter Passages New Meaning
JK Rowlings announced that Dumbledore is gay. *yawn*
JK Rowlings announced that Dumbledore is gay. *yawn*
Dumbledore is gay
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I'm a harry potter fan (however uncool I'm sure that is in this forum)
But to announce that a character is gay AFTER you've already finished the series...well that's just...Gay.
Besides what does the characters sexuality have to do with anything? I think it's just something to make sure everyone is still paying attention when the next few movies come out. Either that or the wizardry=devil worship thing played out and she needed a new controversy to provoke the religious right.
EDIT: Damnit dru sam you beat me to it.
But to announce that a character is gay AFTER you've already finished the series...well that's just...Gay.
Besides what does the characters sexuality have to do with anything? I think it's just something to make sure everyone is still paying attention when the next few movies come out. Either that or the wizardry=devil worship thing played out and she needed a new controversy to provoke the religious right.
EDIT: Damnit dru sam you beat me to it.
I think it's good. Anything to help people wake up from their prejudices.
I'm a happily married very heterosexual male, but I think it's despicable to discriminate against someone because of a sexual orientation they have no control over.
And using "gay" as derogatory is so high-school.
I'm a happily married very heterosexual male, but I think it's despicable to discriminate against someone because of a sexual orientation they have no control over.
And using "gay" as derogatory is so high-school.
lol, you're right supergeek, but I just can't let go of it. I have lots of gay male friends. I love the subculture. College was a bunch of gay clubbing and damn could they dance and rave all night long!!! But I won't give up the term. It doesn't have anything to do with homosexuality in my head anyway.
Wow, that's so closeminded I'm surprised your head doesn't implode. Or are you just a troll?
When Harry dates Cho or whatever, that's including sexual orientation.
When Hagrid dates the big freakish instructor from the other school, he's including sexual orientation. Kids should get used to the idea that people can be different. I really really hope you're just trolling and not honestly this stupid and bigoted.
Just cause your married doesn't mean your not gay. Why did you have to point out you were married before saying that you condone homosexuality?
Sounds a little curious to me. Why do you care what others think about homosexuality? Is this what's holding you back, worrying about what others will think.
If you can get everyone to agree that it's ok to be gay, then will it be safe to come out?
I could never understand straight men who feel the need to take up for the gay guy. Do you think you could be his hero and rush him away to fantasy land and live happily ever after???
Oh yeah, you figured me out. Send a picture, I bet you're a real hunk.Just cause your married doesn't mean your not gay. Why did you have to point out you were married before saying that you condone homosexuality?
Sounds a little curious to me. Why do you care what others think about homosexuality? Is this what's holding you back, worrying about what others will think.
If you can get everyone to agree that it's ok to be gay, then will it be safe to come out?
I could never understand straight men who feel the need to take up for the gay guy. Do you think you could be his hero and rush him away to fantasy land and live happily ever after???
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This is the same reason blacks can say the n word!
Not at all. Ever thought that "that is so gay" comes from the term Gay=happy? During the 1940's and 50's this was quite a common term. And we all know what a cheezy/donna reedish era the 50's was. Therefore when something is cheezy or stupid, we say "that is so gay".
heh.I'm totally bullshitting. I have no idea where the origination of the term came from.
I'm with ya (I think), I use gay to mean stupid or rubbish, nothing to do with homosexuality just the meaning of a word changing as time goes by.
Yeah I used to use it interchangeably with "lame" or "dumb" back in high school. It was very common, a part of the culture. I used to feel a sort of aimless animosity towards gays, just because it was how everyone I knew felt towards them and talked about them. But, I never knew any.
Then I read a book I can't remember the title of, but it's around here somewhere in my library (between my wife and I we have like a thousand books) written from the perspective of a gay man dying of AIDS. For the first time in my life I was out of my heterosexual mindset, and I was like, wow, you know, it's not a choice for them, why should they be persecuted? And I felt stupid and childish for using the term "gay" in a derogatory manner for those years. It made me realize I had a lot of prejudices, and I needed to do more self analysis to figure out what else I had adopted from my peers and from society that was stupid, baseless, ignorant, and immature.
It's a never-ending journey, really. Throwing off the shackles of common thought is difficult. I am still guilty of prejudice against stupid people, ignorant people, bigots -- there's a reason they are the way they are, usually a result of their upbringing, and I should be more understanding.
Edit: The book was "Borrowed Time."
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