JK Rowling Reveals Gay Dumbledore

JK Rowling pulled another one out of her bag of tricks the other day when she announced that Hogwart's Headmaster Albus Dumbledore (played by Sir Michael Gambon) is not only gay, but was involved in a twisted good versus evil love affair with rival Gellert Grindelwald. (full story)

Having your love interest turn evil is bad enough. Imagine having magic involved in the actual breakup? "Falling in love can blind us to an extent," Rowling told a packed Carnegie Hall. (It sounds like she's been reading Mona's love advice column.)

Slashers have long suspected Dumbledore to be gay, but most were focused on Harry Potter's sexuality. I'm sure Rowling and the Potter crew will continue to get backlash for her Dumbledore outing, but doesn't evil always lurk in the shadows of something good?

I award a big gay flag to Rowling for showing the complexity of love and for her campaign for acceptance. She says her books are a "prolonged argument for tolerance" and urged her fans to "question authority."

The seventh and final Harry Potter book was published last July and the sixth film adaptation, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is due for release next year.

Dumbledore is gay, but what about Sir Michael Gambon? - Gambon (born October 19, 1940) is an Irish-British TV, film and theater actor. The Dublin native attests interviews and is known for fabricating stories. At one time he claimed that he used to be gay but stopped because it made his eyes water. Watch this rather witty clip on YouTube of Michael Gambon being interviewed by BBC Canada.

Is Harry Potter gay? - For years, Harry has dodged the gay question. Slashers stand strong to their claim that Harry Potter is gay. It's up to his mother (not the ghost, but the writer) to out him as one of our own. Will it ever happen? Is Harry indeed gay, despite a weak kiss in 2007's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix? You decide in this gay Harry Potter poll.

Is Daniel Radcliffe gay? - The wand is still wavering on this one, but Radcliffe himself has never publicly come out. Rumors continue to circulate, especially after his bare-all performance in Equus. I'm confident sometime in the near future we'll know what's really behind his invisibility cloak.

_{Image: Author J.K. Rowling holds a press conference and book signing for Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) school children October 15 2007 © Toby Canham/Getty Images.}