Created 1998, Apollo and Midnighter were among the first married gay upl superhero ics — and they were totally parodi of Batman and Superman. Now, thanks to DC Comics ntuy, the four characters fally met face to face.
Contents:
- IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? ALL ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS EXPLAED
- BATMAN IS PRETTY GAY: QUEER REPRENTATN COMICS & THE DARK KNIGHT
- IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? ALL ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS EXPLAED
* is batman gay in the comics *
Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman. In March, Marvel unveiled their first gay Capta Ameri character — a queer youth advote named Aaron Fischer — to be clud the upg “Uned Stat of Capta Ameri” ic book miseri. But he has had his fair share of romantic volvements, which ually begs the qutn is Batman gay, bisexual, or straight?
The Bottom Le: Is Batman Gay, Bisex, or Straight? Wh the recent passg of Kev Conroy, the voice of the ped csar Batman: The Animated Seri and gay in, felt like a good time to discs LGBTQIA+ reprentatn ic books, specifilly Superhero ics.
Lookg past the tastels jok about Bce spendg all of his time wh an old Brish man and a speedo-clad boy he kept a ve, there has always been a homoerotic subtext to Batman. In a 2012 Playboy terview, Morrison said “Gayns is built to Batman.
BATMAN IS PRETTY GAY: QUEER REPRENTATN COMICS & THE DARK KNIGHT
I’m not g gay the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. Obvly, as a fictnal character, he’s tend to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole ncept is utterly gay. This new wave of ercive censorship forced the hands of creators to keep thgs subtextual and give their hero a stone-ld se of the “not gays.
IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
She served as Batman’s love tert for a few years, specifilly orr to fend off mors that Bce was gay.