Is "Fantastic Beasts" A Metaphor For Gay Rights?
J.K. Rowling has been an outspoken champion of gay rights, but is her new Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, actually a metaphor for the LGBT community's struggle for equality?
A review in the New York Post is suggesting that the new film is actually about gay liberation, writing that it "explores a clandestine world of stylish, secretive creatures who live undetected among an oblivious, mistrustful majority in New York City, and have their own cool underground bars."
"Amid talk of how unfair it is that there are laws against whom you can love, we learn that there is a wide range of witches and wizards living parallel to and undetected by non-magic practitioners," the Post reports.
The argument is that the magical characters are essentially in the closet, hiding their true natures from the majority of the population who is looking to "out the witches and destroy them."
Meanwhile, fans are hoping to see some actual LGBT characters appear in the franchise, as Rowling declared that we'll be getting to see the backstory of Dumbledore, the wizard who the author revealed was gay back in 2007.
Click here to read the entire New York Post review, and check out the Fantastic Beasts trailer before the film hits theaters later this week.
