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It's pretty silly for an author to "out" a character in a book.
As a writer myself, I understand that when you're writing a series, you also have a "bible" that is sorta like the sourcebook for your characters. In this bible, you may not use EVERY single tidbit in your novels, but you write with those tidbits in your conscious mind.
But there comes a point where you have to commit to the ideas. If your series is written and it was never important enough -- in SEVEN books -- to say that Dumbledore was gay, then I think one should just allow the reader to come to their own conclusions.
It's quite possible to give any novel a "queer reading." It cheapens the work when the author does all the thinking for you.
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