Gay

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7053982.stm

Didnt see that one coming...

Damn... Maybe Ian McKellen really should be playing that role in the movies...

If you didn't see it coming yuo didn't read the last book.

Old news.

Like a day old but still.

The wand.. the reclusive nature... living with a parrot...

I mean it all pointed one direction.

Doesn't Snape kill him?

No wonder Harry thought he was lying about seeing socks in the mirror of Erised. Harry was only 11, and Dumbledore was really seeing mansecks.

I didn't pick up on it when I was reading, but looking back it seems pretty obvious.

This makes replacing "wand" with "wang" even more hilarious.

i wonder if at any point in the books dumbledore handles another wizards wand... i don't want to reread them just to find out

it was pretty clear by the end of book 7 he was seeing his sister in the mirror

snape and dumbly definitely got it on

What I don't understand is why the audience applauded when the author revealed this...

I suppose Hermione was black, too?

I like how the one person wanted it to be more obvious. I hate that. Gay people should be able to live normal lives and shouldn't have to make a big deal about their sexuality. That's what bothers me about the "gay" and "lesbian" scene is that being gay means that you've suddenly got a license to scream it from the rooftops. This is why my bisexuality really doesn't matter, because I don't think I could handle the attention whoring of "gay" people.

Dumbledore finally defeated the now-Dark wizard Grindelwald, who had come to possess the Elder Wang. After Grindelwald's defeat, Dumbledore became true master of the Elder Wang, which has been his wang until his death, regarding it as the least of the three Hallows, and the only one he was fit to wield.

Because they don't have a problem with homosexuality?

well that was an ignorant statement... replace homosexual with anything else... lets say Chinese? would you applaud if it was revealed that Dumbledore was Chinese? its just needless lip service and backslapping. "oh we are so enlightened! we are accepting of gay wizards!" seriously i don't give hoot if hes gay or not. if hes a good character then hes a good character. if hes not then hes not. weather hes gay straight or somewhere in between is not really relevant.

unless you were being facetious then never mind...

Neither does Gris, he just probably doesn't see what's so exciting about it.

And neither do I.

Damn straight.

not all do... but some will take every opportunity to remind us they are gay *cough*vinny*cough*

it goes for other things too.. some people just think they need to remind us constantly of something they think makes them so special

I personally am offended.

If you're constantly being reminded in the media that your lifestyle is "wrong", or see pictures online of "God hates Fags", you might look at it differently. Gays take pride and scream it from the rooftops because they feel they can take pride in themselves no matter what they see around them. It gives other people who aren't out a feeling of acceptance, when families, communities and society say they aren't meant to be accepted.

This is clearly the most retarded statement ever. Its perfect satire. I half wonder if he was being sarcastic.

If she said this to get props for throwing a bone to gay rights advocacy groups, this is exactly how I would have responded.



I think Kirby will agree with me here, but the militant gays are basically looking for a cause so they can get that feeling of being in a niche. Society is not anti-gay. Militant gay rights people look for opportunity to act oppressed, and militant anti-gay people look for every instance of that so they can whine. It's a self sustaining ball of stupid. If the gay people were honest they look at the anti gay groups and dismiss them as crazy people, and give them no further thought. If the anti-gay groups were consistent, they'd realize that focusing on gay people while turning a blind eye to the fact that everyone has sex before marriage, ect. makes them hypocritical douchebags. They are also for several other fundamental reasons, and this is coming from a guy who believes homosexuality is wrong.

Basically I can't stand loud people looking for an excuse to be indignant.

Like crippled people. God, I hate when they tell everyone they're disabled. Who cares, midget?

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I have to agree, that's pretty much incorrect.

I think all we see of any aspect of society are two extremes, when really, most people lie in the middle. I had a great way to tie that into teh conversation and I completely forgot it, so I'll just post this and hope someone else can tie it back. Whoever does gets a cookie?

Yeah, i hate how a crippled person at these forums makes a big deal about it. He's crippled, so what? Why should we be interested? He's a hobbit, so what? Who cares? Well obviously, this person does. He just doesn't care about the fact that we don't give a crap about it. So crippled hobbits are mean and ignorant. Especially this one, he wants to be special, and will make sure that we all know what he is. An attention whore.

Alright, a good deal less than 50% of the population is not anti gay. It's sort of polarized I guess, with more people on the two extreems, so I guess it's not really proper to make such a broad generalization.

You can't really say that it is anti-gay though.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_poll2.htm If you take the tread four years past 2003, you get a around a 60-40 ratio in favor of people who think homosexuality is ok.

It occurs to me that since this whole Gandalf Slash situation occured in WW2, he (and possibly his love, the guy he's most famous for killing) would both be hot.

-So there's that to look up to

Obi, in most states it's perfectly legal to fire people for being gay.

Homosexual sex is also illegal in many states.

In a few countries, homosexuality is punishable by death.

There's like 4 countries where it's okay to be gay. And the US isn't one of them.

Popular culture makes it seem like homosexuality is completely accepted in the U.S., but in society at large there's still an uneasy truce between those who accept homosexuals for what they are and those who wish they didn't exist at all.

Hardly. The law may still be on the books, but give me just one contemporary example of enforcement.

The fact that those laws haven't been repealed, despite not being enforced, is pretty disgusting.

hehe, throwing a bone... haha, get it.. bone... gay... uh..

Congress is too busy coming up with more useless laws to have time to repeal any. With each new law comes some new restriction. Eventually, we will have no freedom. And the bureaucracy... dear god the bureaucracy... you don't even know what laws you're breaking because the procedure to do anything is so complicated that you have to research it for months before you even have an idea of what the "proper" way to do it is. I'm telling you our society is ****ed.

So let's go out into the wilderness and start our own commune... that will eventually evolve right back to this point.

When this is in the textbooks of the future students everywhere will roll their eyes and sigh to themselves "Who the **** cares?"

Truth.


I can't believe this deserves news.

It's not up to Congress, these are state and local laws.

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