Dumbledore Outed

Author J.K. Rowling recently revealed that Albus Dumbledore, one of the major characters in her Harry Potter series, is gay. Apparently this is not the first children's book character to be gay, though it is probably the most well-known. Several groups have responded favorably to this revelation, which is understandable given the dearth of gay role models in children's fiction.

I half expected some ultra right-wing family-values group to speak out against having a gay protagonist exposed to their kids, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised that no one did. After all, these are probably the same people who already prevented their kids from reading the Potter books because of the blatant promotion of paganism!

Which reminded me of this classic Onion article (which some family groups apparently thought was real).