Rowling's Dumbledore Outing Suspect?

A columnist for Time smells a rat in Jo Rowling's Outing of Albus. John Cloud is gay and isn't impressed with this post hoc affair. He thinks Rowling's admission makes Dumbledore out to be a wimp, and an unfulfilled wimp at that.

Cloud's last comment is an insightful one: he says that, ala StarTrek, characters eventually become the property of the fans, whose fan fiction takes over and builds a "full expression of diversity" in the pantheon of the created world. Eventually we can expect Harry Potter fan works where homosexuality finds robust and abundant expression.

But here's the hitch perhaps: Rowling has tipped all the homosexual attention towards the character who is noblest, brightest, and pretty radically celibate. She has outed one character, and by implication protected all the rest. What fan is brave and credible enough to write the gay romance of Albus Dumbledore?

My impression: the issue is going to fade out of public interest pretty fast.

I've been wondering if Rowling had an ulterior motive for busting Dumbledore out of the closet. She's been known to spin things and manipulate audiences to her own ends.

The Granger says that if Rita Skeeter's expose on Dumbledore didn't find a relationship to expose there can't be one plausibly created. The Granger has many helpful things to say here.