To paraphrase someone from a previous online conversation, it's hard to think of Dumbledore as a gay role model when you can read a chapters-long biography of the man and still not be able to guess that he's not straight. Also, the fact that he's a manipulative jerk, even from beyond the grave.
I agree that it was a fact probably most appropately given after the series finished, both because it could have colored some people's opinion of the character, and because honestly, it had absolutely nothing to do with the story of Harry Potter. Personaly, since book five, my hypothetical list of Dumbledore's character attributes has started out with, "manipulative jerk." Finding out that he a fling with Grindewald back in the 1800s does not change that at all.
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