…gay!
Jo Rowling revealed this when at her public appearance at Carnegie Hall today.
Wow! Nobody seemed to pick that one.
There was no doubt in my mind when I saw that little gold chain in his beard.
And this is shocking, why?
Not to sound crass, but the man was a flamboyantly dressed lifelong bachelor who lived with a flaming bird.
Shocking only because it wasn’t picked. Or not that I heard.
It’s not shocking that it should be so.
And played with wands…
Does that mean the matter with his brother Aberforth and “the goat incident” (and whose bar still smells strongly of goat, and whose Patronus is a goat)… is what one might think it is?
I heard that Dumbledore’s wand was 15 inches long. 
I shudder in horror to think of all the Dumbledore/Hagrid slashfic that will undoubtedly soon flood the Internet. :eek:
I know she loves stealing from LOTR, but Rowling does realize that just because Ian McKellen is gay doesn’t mean that Gandalf is also gay, right?
Ha!
It’s already* there*. Rule 34, my friend.
Although, true to the general proclivities of slash fiction, the Harry/Snape stories outnumber them by orders of magnitude.
Not sure, but I know it does mean that I was right and that it should have been Ian McKellen playing Dumbledore in the movies all along.
“Touch my phoenix, Harry. Do you feel how hot it is?”
‘Albus Dumbledore’ can be rearranged to spell ‘So durable lubed’ or ‘Lubed our blades’. Also ‘Balled Euro buds’ and ‘Bull aroused abed’.
What if you throw his middle names in there? If I recall correct they were Brian Percival Wulfric.
Purple robe, fussy office.
I figured it out about halfway through “Deathly Hallows,” when his close friendship with Grindelwald was discussed. I knew they weren’t “just friends”! 
I always thought it was curious how all through the series there was no mention of any gay people, wizards or Muggles. I wonder why she waited until now to mention this?
Why is this a surprise? As a witch he fornicates with Satan, who is male, and obviously some enjoy it more than others. (Lucius Malfoy is a traditional family values sort of guy so he probably just closes his eyes and balances his checkbook, but Dumbledore’s probably screaming “That all you got bitch?!” since he is, after all, the leader of the Satanic priesthood that the series revolves around.)
Let’s see: a gay wizard who’s in charge of 15 year old boys. What does Rowling need to add in to make the Fundies hate her books just a bit more?
Perhaps Hermiones “Fetus aborticus!” spell or the Witanagemot passing Wand Control legislation could do it.
PS- I always thought Neville would be the pooftah and Dumbledore: McGonagall would be revealed to be an item (“Who’s your dark lord?”).
So when he was fighting Grindenwald I wonder if they took a break for aural sex.
So what would you name Diagon Alley’s gay bar? The golden shower crowd has the publication Whizzards, of course, and there are genre pubs like Gobbledepoof and Don’t Ask Don’t Spell, but where would the mainstream academic/banker/auror crowd who happen to like wizard on wizard action go.
The Wand Wavers Club?