Gotta love J. K. Rowling

At a recent appearence at Carnegie Hall, J. K. Rowling was taking questions from the audience when a young fan asked if Dumbledore finds "true love". Rowling then responded that Dumbledore was gay.

Well if that doesn't get the religious right groups in a tizzy, I don't know what will.

She also gives the answers to a number of questions and the The Leaky Cauldron has a full transcript, but here's the question about Dumbledore.

Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?

My truthful answer to you... I always thought of Dumbledore as gay. [ovation.] ... Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald, and that that added to his horror when Grindelwald showed himself to be what he was. To an extent, do we say it excused Dumbledore a little more because falling in love can blind us to an extend, but he met someone as brilliant as he was, and rather like Bellatrix he was very drawn to this brilliant person, and horribly, terribly let down by him. Yeah, that's how i always saw Dumbledore. In fact, recently I was in a script read through for the sixth film, and they had Dumbledore saying a line to Harry early in the script saying I knew a girl once, whose hair... [laughter]. I had to write a little note in the margin and slide it along to the scriptwriter, "Dumbledore's gay!" [laughter] If I'd known it would make you so happy, I would have announced it years ago!