[ SECRET POST #2216 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2216 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If she had written the books with a gay man in a position of authority over hundreds of young children, we would not have had queer visibility in the slightest. We would have had no books whatsoever. There is no way in hell that it would have been published at all, let alone become so wildly popular.

[(Anonymous)]

His teacher's sex life would not have been something that would have been discussed in the earlier books.

By books 5? 6? 7? You were talking about the most successful and popular series in the entire world--in the history of the world. Dumbledore being gay would NOT have pulled them off the shelves.

I don't think she's bad for doing it how she did, but it wasn't, as OP said, some sort of LGBT Christmas miracle.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure revealing that Dumbledore was gay in the last book would have caused minimal issues in getting it published.

[(Anonymous)]

Only minimal in the sense that the censors would've cut it out before allowing publishing.

I don't know if people are just really young or really stubborn, but at the time? That shit wouldn't fly in mainstream children's literature. I don't care how much people want to insist it'd be good for kids to see gay characters represented. IT WOULD NOT HAPPEN.