- JK Rowling says Dumbledore was gay, and I couldn’t be happier about it. I’ve seen too many gay characters recently in films and theatre and TV that are filthy old stereotypes for an audience to find amusing, like pets… I saw Stardust yesterday and loved it. But I hated that the gay character in it was obsessed with women’s clothes and dancing around. I saw Spamalot and I loved it. I just hated that the weak girly man was gay, and the butch gay man liked disco… Idiots.