It's a blessed day in internet land the world pours over the trailer for Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, the latest installment in the witches and wizards franchise.

The film, which comes out in November, takes a look back at evil wizard Voldemort's gnarly coming of age, an angle homosexual journalist Choire Sicha reads as "the very gay Freudian nightmare":

…Now we find that Voldemort's own sense of evil came to him as a torture in the night of his youth. And then there's the train chugging its way to Hogwarts, and all the boys in the private school jostling in the halls, and there's Ian McKellen handing Harry Potter some big crystal memory dildo, seriously, and then there's Ian McKellen saying, "I'm like you, Tom: I'm different." My God is this movie perverted.

Sadly, we're sure right wing wackos would take Sicha's humor to heart.

Dumbledore's the Lance Bass of fictional magicians!

The wizard seems more famous now that's gay than when people thought he liked old witches. You can be sure, then, that Mr. D came up in a recent chat between Harry Potter creator JK Rowling and a Scottish paper. The paper delves deep into gay Dumbledore, who Rowling says lost his moral compass after falling in love. Funny, we lost something else…

Rowling also addresses the outrage following Dumbledore's outing:

It is a very interesting question because I think homophobia is a fear of people loving, more than it is of the sexual act. There seems to be an innate distaste for the love involved, which I find absolutely extraordinary. There were people who thought, well why haven't we seen Dumbledore's angst about being gay?
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People have to examine their own attitudes. It's a shade of character. Is it the most important thing about him? No, it's Dumbledore for God's sake. There are 20 things that are relevant to the story before his sexuality.

It seems to us all those magical teenage hormones post more danger. What would parents say if Potter turned evil and date raped that girlfriend of his, huh?

Saturday Night Live spent some of its precious time this weekend taking the piss out of gay Dumbledore, otherwise known as the story that would not die. Watch as "Larry King" and "JK Rowling" discuss the shocking Harry Potter revelation and some deleted gay scenes from the book's film franchise. You may or may not laugh, chuckle or throw-up.

Albus Dumbledore may be the most popular gay these days. He's certainly getting enough press.

While the Harry Potter character's outing may bring JK Rowling even more fans, Out's Aaron Hicklin thinks gays have always loved the Potter books. He tells Jeff Bercovici:

I suspect (but have no proof) that the books have a particular appeal to gay readers for all the obvious reasons. Gay men are able to identify a) with children's fiction because invariably the hero is the outsider; and b) with fantasy because it posits an alternate universe, usually one in which wrongs can be righted.

And people have powers and shit, which is cool.

Meanwhile, Hicklin also chatted with Bercovici about this year's Out 100 and a controversial addition: Perez Hilton. Says Hicklin:

Obviously we knew it would be polarizing, but it's hard to argue with the fact that he's made a tremendous impact, for better or worse — and do you know how hard it is to find 100 successful gay men and women every year?

Cough, cough…

We knew there would be an outcry over Harry Potter character Albus Dumbledore's outing, but we didn't really see this one coming. Time homo-journo John Cloud thinks JK Rowling needs to stick the Hogwarts headmaster back in the closet:

Dumbledore himself never saw fit to come out of the closet before dying in book six. And I feel a bit like I did when we learned too much about Mark Foley and Larry Craig: You are not quite the role model I'd hoped for as a gay man.
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Why couldn't he tell us himself? …We can only conclude that Dumbledore saw his homosexuality as shameful and inappropriate to mention among his colleagues and students. His silence suggests a lack of personal integrity that is completely out of character.
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Dumbledore had not a single fully realized romance in 115 years of life. That's pathetic, and a little creepy. It's also a throwback to an era of pop culture when the only gay characters were those who committed suicide or were murdered.

If only Dumbledore were real and could tell his side of the story. We're sure it would all make sense.

Abracadabra! With a wave of her words, Harry Potter author JK Rowling changed the course of human history Friday when she outed Hogwarts head-master Albus Dumbledore. Guess gays can be witches, too.

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• Kyra Sedgwick, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences CEO Dick Askin and Jon Cryer are thrilled to be reading announcing the Emmy nominations.

• Fattie v. Fattie: Perez Hilton challenges Jason Davis to hot dog eating contest. And, also, a race. He's so health conscious!

• "First gay Latin star" Jade Esteban Estrada to play villain in Bruiser and Scratch video game.

• Cathy Horyn recalls Versace murder.

• God bless Tammy Faye: dying of lung cancer, weighing next to nothing, still going strong and appearing on Larry King tonight.

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• It took George Clooney 29-years to get a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. The Harry Potter kids, Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe and the absolutely stunning Emma Watson? Six years. That's gotta sting.

• Ugandan gay activists demand that anti-gay Ethics and Integrity Minister James Nsaba Buturo turn over his "death threats". Or else…

• The Anglican soap opera continues. The General Synod has backed a "covenant" dedicated to wrangling in gays and their liberal allies. Openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson may soon be an endangered species.

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Daniel Radcliffe's Harry Potter tour took him to the pages of closeted fag rag Details.

We haven't yet had to chance to fully dissect the Simon Garfield-penned piece - we're too captivated by these gorgeous shots snapped by Steven Klein.
From what we understand of the aforementioned article, Garfield spills some ink examining Radcliffe's evolution from four-eyed nerd warrior to dramatic - and comedic - wunderkind:

Ricky Gervais and his colleague Stephen Merchant, the team behind the original version of The Office, cast Radcliffe in an episode of Extras, putting him in a Boy Scout uniform for a role in a film about elves and investing his backstage character with a desperate quest for adulthood. “I’ve done it with a girl, intercourse-wise,” he tells a fellow actor, before flapping a huge condom in the air and saying, “Let’s hope it’s big enough!”

We'd say we feel bad lusting after an 18-year old guppy, but we don't. We do, however, feel bad about not feeling bad. That counts for something, right?

With all the music festivals catering to the gay listener these days, we feel it our duty to expand our tastes to the broader edges of the audio arts spectrum. And we are currently obsessed with British (we think they're british) rock group Muse. Should you wish to indoctrinate yourelf into the church of the Muse–or even if you don't–you must watch this BRILLIANT overlay of their song "Time Is Running Out" to a re-cut of Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, edited by someone named "Nausicaa." How would you come up with this correlation? Whatever, it totally works. Whoever you are, Nausicaa, we salute you. And to the rest of you: watch the video.

Last week's So Gay! wrap-up left off with this past year’s best coming out stories. Today we’ll cover the best in gay movies. We think you’ll recognize some films you forked over 10 bucks to see.

5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Whether it’s their ability to relate to young Harry’s sense of isolation or his oversized magic wand, The Gays just love Harry Potter. Like the book series, the films are getting progressively darker as Harry himself matures into a man. Soon he'll be legal.

4. Rent. Musical numbers? Check. An AIDS storyline? Check. Director of first two Harry Potter films? Check. A Sex in the City connection? Check. That and more make this movie one big ol’ gay event.

3. TransAmerica. One of our favorite Desperate Housewives straps on a penis in order to portray a character who only wants to get it lopped off. Felicity Huffman is the pre-op tranny who finds out her long lost son is gay hustler. The only thing that would have made this any gayer would have been a cameo by Madge herself.

2. Capote. Phillip Seymor Hoffman turned in a sublime performance as Truman Capote, one full of nuances and all too accurate mannerisms of the famous writer. But let’s not forget Catherine Keener. Her portrayal of carpet muncher Harper Lee was an absolute scene-stealer.

Which brings us to the number one So Gay! Film of the year…

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• Madonna lost a plagiarism lawsuit in Belgium. Now that country's courts are freezing both sales and airplay of "Frozen." Of course this only means more publicity for her new album.

• Fag haven Key West is becoming gentrified. See? This is what happens when you open your anomalous door to the vanilla that is MTV.

• Sure Kanye West had the balls to speak out against homophobic rap lyrics, but how does he feel about being around queers? "I still wouldn't feel comfortable at a gay bar. I wouldn't go to a gay parade. I don't know if I'm in favor of gay marriage or not." We're not saying he's worried about appearing too soft. We're saying his PR people are worried about him appearing too soft.

• Good news and bad news. HIV rates in blacks go down but are up for gays overall.

• We know most of you will be throwing down your hard earned gay bucks for a peak at Harry Potter's broomstick this weekend. We definitely will.

• So that big gay Brazilian kiss never happened. And the gays in Brazil are so not happy. They are performing a kiss-a-thon in protest today. Yum, hot gay guys kissing in the streets. Someone take pictures!

• Patti Lupone, yes Evita and now Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, lets the world in on a secret. Drama club is for freaks and gays.

• Sweaty giant hairy testicles ran the New York Marathon yesterday. For a minute we thought it was Gay Pride.

• Madonna took Lourdes to the Harry Potter premiere in London on Sunday. We could care less about her. We had more important pictures to get excited over. Namely, the suddenly in puberty Mr. Daniel Radcliffe. We are calling it. In a few years Harry Potter is gonna be hot.

• Our WOW friends gather answers to the question “Why is Michael Musto important?” from a selection of the freaks and the famous. We are neither, so they did not ask us.

• Bradford was on Logo this weekend being interviewed. That was fun and next time we promise to give you a better head’s up.

You can’t imagine that a priest would get booted out of a school in the English countryside for calling Harry Potter straight, right? But the Reverend Graham Taylor did get thrown out on his ass from the Penair School in Truro, England for calling Harry gay.

We suspected a gay side to the Potter books the moment Will and Grace’s Karen said “I’ve recently gotten into those Harry Potter books. I always pretend to root for Gryffindors but secretly, I love my Slytherin boys.”

Reverend Taylor, already absolutely fabulous thanks to his book Shadowmancer, was shaken by his banishment. “It was a joke; a joke from Little Britain that the children would know. I didn’t set out to offend. I’m a priest and I’m very careful about not offending people.”

Little Britain is a comedy series with an oft-repeated line “He’s not the only gay in the village.” To join a network of homos gossiping about characters in Harry Potter, you can go here.