Harry Potter: Queerbaiting

Last week’s release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the script of the new story from JK Rowling’s beloved wizard, caused the expected stir – but for reasons unanticipated. As the text landed in bookshops around the world, accusations began flying as readers debated whether the two young characters – Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter – were an example of “queerbaiting”.

Queerbaiting is a term that exists mostly in fan communities, and refers to the writers or creators of a world (whether of a movie franchise, a book series, or a TV show) using injections of homoeroticism and romance to draw an audience seeking LGBTQ representation, while not alienating a wider audience who may not want to see a gay relationship depicted. Think of the term “bromance” – a dynamic that employs romantic tropes, all the while not actually fulfilling them.

Accusations of queerbaiting are more commonly directed towards television than books: TV shows such as House, Supernatural and Rizzoli & Isles have all been singled out, while recent depictions of “confirmed bachelors” Sherlock Holmes and John Watson have also been accused of dabbling in manipulative homoeroticism...

Guardian Books Blog Daftness.

There's billions of people on the internet, some are guaranteed to be quite bonkers.

Older: Openly Gay Homosexual Characters

From a Telegraph online photo gallery.

Other older openly gay homosexual characters in the media include Dumbledore, possibly.

Neville Longbottom: All Grown Up

HARRY Potter child star Matthew Lewis is all grown up — and now his pants are casting a spell.

The 25-year-old, who played nerdy Neville Longbottom in the films, stripped off for Attitude magazine.

And the sight of Matthew’s magic wand left Harry Potter author JK Rowling more horrified than her fans when she killed off Dumbledore.

Referring to Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe’s famous nude stage role, the millionaire writer tweeted: “Not as bad as watching Dan in Equus, but close. Warn me next time, for God’s sake.”

An embarrassed Matthew, who also appeared in BBC shows The Syndicate and Bluestone 42, replied: “Well, this is awkward. Sorry, Jo... ”

But Rowling told him: “I will always support you whatever you do, Matthew. Now go put some clothes on.”

Matthew was only 11 when he began playing chubby Neville Longbottom and had to hide his buff body under fatsuits by the time of the final film in 2011...

The Sun - and every media outlet on Earth.

It's funny how people don't look like they did when they were 11 when they're 24, isn't it?

PS Hope no-one spoils the party by pointing out he's actually plain as a pudding, and has been Photoshopped to hell... while thrusting his dick out. We could all do that, dear.

Have I Got News For You: What Wouldn't I Give?

When did he wake up and get foxy?

JK Rowling: Unamazing

Mirror.

.@anakocovic21 Maybe because gay people just look like... people?
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 24, 2015

No we don't, we walk and talk funny.

JK Rowling: You Have Been Blocked From Following This Account At The Request Of The User

Christian loonbag/Frank has now deleted his Twitter account.

Pink News: Dear

Dear Pink News,

One of the first things they teach schoolkids about sociology is 'correlation is not causation'.

Your readers deserve better than this beyond inane trivial crapola.

You seem to have been hijacked by 12 year-olds recently.

Gay Star News has cornered the market in gay fuckwittery, no need to follow them.

yours

Fagburn

Update: Oh god they've topped themselves! A gay-friendly hairdresser may open in New York!!! Whatever next? Thanks to Anson. x

Uh-oh! Looks like Gay Star News have upped the stakes!

Daniel Radcliffe: Homo The Brave

Those who know him only from Potter will be astonished by what he brings to the screen in Kill Your Darlings, a movie by first-time director John Krokidas in which Radcliffe plays a young Allen Ginsberg at a formative moment in his life. Based on a long-hidden murder case that brought Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs together at Columbia University, Krokidas has compared it to Capote in the way it focuses on a single event - in both cases a murder - as a transformative experience in the lives of the people around it...
Hollywood.com singled out the romantic relationship between Radcliffe and [Dane] DeHaan as the motor of the entire movie, “eventually swelling to a burst of passion.” For many, the unflinching scenes of gay sex were further evidence, if it was needed, of the distance Radcliffe has travelled in a few short years. “The Boy Wizard never pinned his knees behind his ears,” snickered The Hollywood Reporter - a harbinger, one suspects, of many such jokes to come. Radcliffe himself remains unfazed, saying only, “You never see a gay actor getting asked what it’s like to play straight - to my knowledge, at least, there is no difference in how heterosexual and homosexual people fall in love.”

Daniel Radcliffe interviewed in Out Magazine.
Though the last quote sounds "nice", I don't agree with it.
I agree with the journalist though that there's going to be a lot of sniggering at the bum jiggery.
But as Daniel's also playing gay, I bet there'll also be a lot of; "So brave..." 
Some people won't know whether to laugh or cry.

Daniel Radcliffe: Horses For Courses

"It's interesting that it's deemed shocking," he told MTV News. "For me, there's something very strange about that because we see straight sex scenes all the time. We've seen gay sex scenes before. I don't know why a gay sex scene should be any more shocking than a straight sex scene. Or both of them are equally un-shocking."
As Radcliffe walked the jam-packed red carpet at the Eccles Theatre on Friday and answered a seemingly unending series of questions about his sex scenes, he wanted to remind everyone that he starred in a Broadway play in which he mutilates horses and stands naked on stage. What's the more provocative performance?
"What weirded me out the most last night was people were asking me all these questions about the gay sex scenes. I was like, 'You know I did Equus?" Radcliffe laughed. "Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange."

Daniel Radcliffe talking to MTV about his mild bemusement at being asked endless questions at  Sundance about the "gay sex scene/s" in Kill Your Darlings. 
I've never seen a Harry Potter movie - and hope to get through life without ever doing so - but this young Radcliffe fellow does sound like a jolly decent cove.

Update: Spot the slightly mis/leading headline in The Daily Star.