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.

Fox News blowhard Bill O'Reilly spent two nights discussing the gay Dumbledore brouhaha.

In addition to chatting with Entertainment Weekly's Tina Jordan, Billo also sat down with Dennis Miller. During the course of that conversation, O'Reilly showed his true colors by objecting to the very idea of gay tolerance…

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MSNBC's Dan Abrams invited social conservative Robert Knight to discuss Dumbledore's terribly over-publicized outing. Insert preemptive groan.

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• JK Rowling on Dumbledore outing: It has certainly never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man could love other men. He is my character. He is what he is and I have the right to say what I say about him." That's right, girl!

• Even more gay Dumbledore reaction.

• The gay Christian pop duo still getting press!?

• Singapore gives oral and anal sex the green light, but not for gays.

• Ellen thinks it's okay to cry. In that case….

• Is your five-year old nephew gay?

• Roseanne Barr thinks Britney Spears is a bad mom. Well, duh!

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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