Abstract of Paper to be Presented at Accio 2008

Did You Really Think Dumbledore was Straight?: Camping & Queering the Hogwarts Headmaster

Andrew John Buzny

Rowling's revelation, that Albus Dumbledore was gay, shocked millions. However, Dumbledore does not merely reside within the confines of the heterosexist identity 'gay'. This paper seeks to illustrate that Dumbledore's relation to men has allowed Rowling to, perhaps inadvertently, create the first literary wizard with the potential to claim to be 'queer'.



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