LGBTQ+ musician King Princess says Harry Potter is a queer story and calls JK Rowling a ‘demon’

King Princess has called the Harry Potter tales a “queer” story and branded author JK Rowling a “demon of a woman” in a new interview.

Speaking to The Irish Times about her new album, Girl Violence, the genderqueer singer, who uses she/they pronouns, said that to be LGBTQ+ in America right now was a “tough bag”, before admitting that she loved the “queer themes” behind the Harry Potter stories.

“It’s about choice and difference and finding your community and chosen family,” they said. “These are all very queer themes.” But she then hit out at JK Rowling’s views on the trans community, calling her a demon.

“You know what the irony is?” King asked. “She wrote eight books about children having autonomy and the ability to make their own choices, which is possibly the most trans thing I’ve ever heard. She could have had these books go down as some of the greatest young-adult writing in the world – all she had to do was shut the f**k up.”

Rowling’s views were “spitting in the space of [the author’s] fandom”, they added. “That said, I still love Harry Potter.”

King Princess, whose real name is Mikaela Mullaney Straus, released their third album on Friday (12 September) and will be touring in the UK and Ireland later this year.

Describing the album as “almost like a ‘ha ha’ to toxic masculinity”, King Princess told The Guardian: “In a world full of physical violence, anger, war and hyper-masculinity, this is the really crazy violence that’s under the surface, that’s subliminal and emotional and thoughtful.

“I shouldn’t be Emo and weird and comparing myself. I’m 26, I should be having fun.”

Tickets for the singer’s UK and Ireland tour are on sale now.

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• Dec 31 2024

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