Dumbledore's gay - just don't expect to see him hook up
In 2007 JK Rowling caused a stir with some Harry Potter fans when she revealed that Dumbledore was gay.
This was the same year she released the final book in the series. But across seven instalments, his sexuality had never been committed to the page.
"Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald [a dark wizard in the Harry Potter universe], and that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was," she told fans in New York at the time.
So when Jude Law was cast as a younger, hotter (sorry Michael Gambon) Dumbledore opposite Johnny Depp's Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, fans were disappointed at director David Yates' comments that Dumbledore's sexuality would "not explicitly" be addressed on screen.
He said the men fell in love with each other's "ideas and ideology" as well as "each other."
JK Rowling told followers on Twitter that she would mute those who attacked her for the decision to not focus on this in the film.
She wrote the screenplay for Fantastic Beasts 2.
OK, well how gay is the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Marvel's movie A-listers are a heterosexual bunch, but LGBT hopes were raised with talk of Tessa Thompson portraying bisexual character Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnorok.
But talk is all it turned out to be.
"There were things that we talked about that we allowed to exist in the characterisation, but maybe not be explicit in the film," Tessa told Rolling Stone after the movie was released.
She said a scene showing a woman leaving her bedroom was cut to make room for "vital exposition."
It's "frustrating" to see scenes like this cut from major blockbusters, Montreal-based LGBT, film and business writer Erika Ashley tells Newsbeat..
"As an LGBT person, if there's a fairly large LGBT storyline in any form of media, it's frustrating to see it cut, watered down or reduced to a very small part of the storyline when that's an endemic part of who the character is," she says.
Valkyrie's story wasn't continued in Avengers: Infinity War (the character didn't return) so all we have are Tessa's words to rely on.
https://twitter.com/TessaThompson_x/status/921876958673113088
Scenes which hinted at a relationship between Ayo and Okoye in Black Panther were also cut, according to actress Florence Kasumba.
Has DC done any better?
Wonder Woman is one of DC's biggest successes in the cinema but the $821 million (£608 million) it made at the box office came without fully exploring her sexuality.
Diana Prince (Wonder Woman) is bisexual in the comics, which was confirmed by writer Greg Rucka in 2016 - the year before the film hit screens.
In the movie, she left her tropical paradise (populated only by women) after falling for Chris Pine's character, Steve Trevor.
Since then, there have been petitions online and Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot has spoken of her support for showing the Amazon's sexuality on screen.
"It's not something we've explored," she told Variety magazine in 2016.
"When you talk theoretically about all the women on Themyscira (Wonder Woman's home) and how many years she was there, then what he said makes sense."
"We need to remember the movie business is, first and foremost, a business, so movie theatres and large studios aren't necessarily looking to tell a storyline that's going to decrease their numbers," adds Erika.
"So what's happened with Solo seems like a tester to see how people respond and whether there would be any negative backlash before moving forward."
We'll have to wait and see if any future films will set things straight (or not).
Star Trek's Sulu is gay - but the actor doesn't want him to be
Actor John Cho, who plays Hikaru Sulu in the most recent version of Star Trek, revealed that his character is gay in the press tour for Star Trek Beyond in 2016.
There was a scene filmed where Sulu kisses his husband when they are reunited after he comes off the USS Enterprise.
According to Simon Pegg, who co-wrote the movie, the decision to make the character gay was made as a tribute to actor George Takei, who originally played the character in the 60s.
But George - who is gay and has campaigned for LGBT rights - didn't agree, saying a homosexual Sulu was not part of the canon.
Cue super-nerd Simon Pegg writing an in-depth blog about canon and the Star Trek universe in defence of his decision.
In the end, the arguments don't really matter - the kiss in question was left on the cutting room floor.
Exactly what reason has Hollywood gone so gay in their movies????
With only 2-4% of the population being gay, what are they trying to do????
Why should we care? Shut up and act.
Sick of all this f a g (*=)/+,.@$##$.
Children try to see these movies, and I am already sick that they are actually made for immature adults.
A character in a movie does not exist, and so it can not be gay or not gay.
But to please insane followers, the makers of the movie have decreed that a character is gay, so the wackos can let their imaginations run wild. Liberals can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy anyway, so let them have fun.
One thing I really dislike in the advocacy of LBGTQOWFVCP is that it makes friendship a subject of suspicion. One cannot have a close friend of the same gender without being suspected of being gay. Taken to the extreme, it has the effect of isolating people.
For some reason, I’m thinking of a scene from Scary Movie, in which one guy starts talking to another guy about their relationship. The gay guy keeps bringing up example after example of how their relationship is gay, and the other guy keeps rebutting him with perfectly innocent and platonic explanations of each example. For example, “What about that trip to San Francisco?” is rebutted by “We were shopping!”
The desire to cast everything in a gay light is not healthy or productive. That it is so ubiquitous these days is an Obama legacy that hopefully will die sooner rather than later.
And in Solo, the new star wars, Lando Kalresian had a crush on his transgender robot.
This is all propaganda, that’s all it is. Social engineering by groups we don’t even know are there.
Which is perhaps why recent Star Wars ventures are underperforming at the box office.
And at the end, the writing and characters are pretty lame as it is. The fact that the character is whatever sexuality they want to say doesn’t make the film or the already badly written character any more interesting.
“Lando is pansexual”
Fornicates with kitchen pans?
I just watched on pay per view, “Tomb Raider” (2018)
It was quite good. It’s sort of a prequel. It is a young Lara Croft.
One thing that I realized after the movie was over, was that there was NO SEX, NO GAY CHARACTERS, NO GAYS AT ALL.
“Fallen Kingdom star Daniella Pineda says her character in the film is gay ...... the line with the reveal was cut from the movie “for the sake of time”.
“for the sake of time” ???? NOOooooo. Hollywood is catching on. People are REJECTING having all this liberal CRAP thrown in their faces.
WINNING!
And just saw the latest Jurassic World and it was terrible on so many levels.
That’s right! Just keep inserting characters that have personality problems and people like me will stop going to the movies altogether. It is meant to condition younger and younger people to accept anything/everything. I wish there could be an LGBT alert on every movie. I would know not to take grandchildren to those movies. Inappropriate for kids.........
Note to Hollywood, people don’t want to see or hear about deviant sexuality. It’s abnormal and self destructive. Just because the writers and actors are perverts, doesn’t mean the rest of the population is.
There's a low level lesbian who admits to one of the stars that she was prohibited from marrying her partner due to law and now a teenage kid who follows another kid into a bathroom, attempts to seduce the kid by trying to kiss him, gets his ass beat then again approaches the kid and they kiss.
In the next episode, his sister asks what happened to him, he says he just had sex...........
Then flash forward to the Catholic church where a bunch of people are hiding, including the town's police officer, he then beats up the Catholic priest citing the priest's pedophilia, which is not substantiated.
This version of "The Mist" is the most bizarre series I have ever attempted to watch and as of now, I'm done with it..............
They have successfully supported lesbianism, active teenage homosexual sex and finally, disgraced the Catholic church...........
Her character was the worst part of a pretty terrible movie. Man, I was rooting for the dinos to devour that idiot.