Dumbledore is GAY!

Who knew?

Author J. K. Rowling creator of the Harry Potter series just disclosed this week that the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Wizadry and Witchcraft in the series is gay! Rowling made this disclosure during her stop at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Do you know what I found to be the most surprising thing about this disclosure?

The audience response.

They cheered!

That’s right.

The audience cheered that this beloved character is gay!

So, given the fact that the Christian Right has already had negative things to say about Harry, and raising children’s interest in the mystical arts, this is just one more development that will undoubtedly be billed as a part of the “satanic gay agenda.”

As a gay man, I really appreciate this development. I also am quite impressed that Rowling had the nerve to do this to one of her characters. (The article I read also said that she disclosed this development to the folks currently producing the latest movie in the series.) Given the popularity of everything Harry Potter, this will undoubtedly bring us gay folks more into the mainstream…and hopefully we won’t be seen as evil or be seen as a significant contribution to the fall of mankind or the twin towers on 9/11.

It’s encouraging.

A few years ago, one of my daughters outted me fairly frequently to her friends at college…and they all seemed to think it was cool to have a gay parent.

Sorry to say, I’m just now…as I reach the tender young age of 50…beginning to embrace my coolness. So we’ll see.

In the meantime, another interesting tidbit:

I’ve been DVRing “The View” and was slightly amused to find out that on Friday’s installment, a transgendered actress was interviewed to discuss her role in the new ABC series, “Dirty Sexy Money.”

Her name is Candis Cayne and she is simply beautiful. Kind of hard to believe that she was once a man named Brendan McDaniel? AND, on top of this she is married to a man and has a stepdaughter.

On the program, she plays a transgendered character in love with the William Baldwin character. (See picture.)

So, the times are a changing!

Thank goodness.