It’s true, Gay Street is open to two-way traffic, at least downtown. Columbus bisexuals rejoice!

I know it’s been awhile, and I have several half-articles written. I wanted to get this one out before it was another decade and totally out of scope. I mean, Gay Street’s been open for a couple of weeks, and it just reminded me of the other news I wanted to share.

This other news is also kind of old. But did you hear (whispers) Dumbledore is gay? Truthfully, that redeems the character some to me. Not that he’s all cool now, because he’s gay, but because he was misled by love, and that scarred him later, and gave him purpose. He’s atoning, and while I may feel that he went a little far (is it really good to use a mostly ignorant little boy as a tool?), at least I felt like he had some sort of reasonable motivation for it.

So, I wasn’t the first to create a t-shirt commemorating it, but I made one within a day or two of the announcement.

Here I am in all my iron-on glory. It’s basically a ‘prints on dark colors’ t-shirt iron-on run through an ink-jet printer. The font is one of the freely available Harry Potter fonts, and the rainbow is from wikipedia’s gay pride flag graphic. I printed it on a black background, and we cut it out and ironed it on.

I got several comments on it the day I wore it. Several people asked me if I made it (and since the edges of the iron on kind of gather a white-color it’s pretty obvious). I also got some “nice shirt” comments, one of which was from a cute couple in the Clintonville Krogers (they were M+F, in case you wondered).

Here’s a better color-corrected closer up version of the picture, where you can actually see that it is, really the right colors for the gay flag. I thought about making one that just said “Wizard” or possibly “Headmaster”. The latter might be a little squicky, although I think the Potter font would make it clear. Those I could put up on zazzle or cafe press. I don’t think I can legally sell something with Dumbledore’s name on it. Seems like that’d be a trademark.

Might be able to get away with it anyway, if anyone wants a more professional version.