As someone who's dutifully stayed away from the Harry Potter series, I can't really see what all the fuss is about over Dumbledore's preference for the company of wizards over witches. This is perhaps because it was round about the time I heard someone refer to Tom Cruise as "so far in the closet, he's in Narnia" that I alighted on the somewhat natural parallels that exist between children's fantasy and gay themes. What I mean to say is this: What made-up magical realm of your adolescence can you cite that would have been downright hostile to jazz hands or California wine country? The Freudian uses of enchantment are well documented, and I'm sure there's some graduate thesis being written on the subject -- if it hasn't already.

Indeed, Oscar Wilde is considered by some to have been a better children's author than he was a playwright (though I find this judgment absurd). An openly gay English professor at, I think, NYU supplements his income by ghost-writing the admittedly non-magical and hard-boiled Hardy Boy stories. He's copped to infusing them with homoeroticism. When asked by a friend of mine if he didn't worry that this might make for inappropriate reading material for the 10-14 year-old set, he replied: "The reader is not my problem." Roald Dahl meets John Waters.

Anyway, try Google image-searching "wizard" and see what you turn up. A random sampling: