Is Batman Gay, Bisexual, or Straight? What Is DC Canon?

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• BATMAN IS GAY, IC BOOK WRER SAYSCOMIC BOOK WRER GRANT MORRISON IS KNOWN FOR BEG A B OUTRAGEO, SO HIS RECENT 'OUTG' OF BATMAN SHOULD BE TAKEN WH A GRA OF SALT, REPORTS MATTHIAS HEE FOR DIE WELT.COMIC BOOK WRER GRANT MORRISON IS KNOWN FOR BEG A B OUTRAGEO, SO HIS RECENT 'OUTG' OF BATMAN SHOULD BE TAKEN WH A GRA OF SALT. STILL, FANS OF THE PED CSAR HAVE LONG HAD REASONS TO WONR.COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS N LEAD UNNVENTNAL LIV. VERY FEW OF THEM ARE MARRIED, OR HAVE KIDS, OR A NORMAL JOB. IF MORS LIVE WH THEM – UNUAL, BUT TAKE DONALD DUCK AS AN EXAMPLE – THEY ARE “NEPHEWS,” AND WE GET NO CLUE AS TO WHO THEIR PARENTS ARE OR WHY THEY LIVE WH THEIR UNCLE. IF THE CHARACTERS LIVE MUNALLY, THEN IS UALLY MEN ONLY AND THE SET-UP IS NOT WHOUT PARALLELS TO MARRIED LIFE: THAT'S THE WAY IS FOR SAME STREET'S BERT AND ERNIE, THE WELL-KNOWN GERMAN IC FIGUR FIX AND FOXI, OR FOR THAT MATTER, BATMAN AND ROB. IN THE REAL WORLD, ARRANGEMENTS LIKE THAT ARE UALLY E FOR PLENTY OF MENTARY. WHICH IS WHY 'S NOT EXACTLY A HUGE SURPRISE THAT AN OFFICIAL BATMAN INC. THOR HAS NOW E OUT AND JT SAID : BATMAN IS GAY. “GAYNS IS BUILT TO BATMAN,” GRANT MORRISON, A ST WHO HAS BEEN WRG FOR THE SERI SCE 2006, TOLD A PLAYBOY TERVIEWER. “I'M NOT G GAY THE PEJORATIVE SENSE, BUT BATMAN IS VERY, VERY GAY. THERE'S JT NO NYG .” MORRISON, WHOSE FANS NSIR HIM ALONG WH ALAN MOORE TO BE THE GREATT LIVG ICS THOR, IS KNOWN FOR LAYG ON A B THICK. THIS MAY JT BE HIM BEG PROVOTIVE FOR THE SAKE OF . ONE OF HIS FIRST SERI, THE 1980S, WAS LLED “THE NEW ADVENTUR OF HLER." THE HERO OF HIS BT-KNOWN WORK, "THE INVISIBL" – A SERI ABOUT VOODOO, TIME TRAVEL AND THE MARQUIS SA – IS A BALD, CYNIL, VCIBLE MACHO-MAN WHO LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HIS CREATOR. WHEN BAD SAL THREATENED TO PUT AN END TO “THE INVISIBL,” MORRISON ANISED A WORLD-WI “WANKATHON” – A MASS MASTURBATN SSN AT A SET TIME (ON THANKSGIVG DAY) TO ST A MAGIC SPELL THAT WOULD KEEP HIS CREATN GOG. IT WORKED. MORRISON'S OUTRAGEO PLAN ED SO MUCH MEDIA BUZZ THAT SAL SOARED. STILL: THE FACT REMAS THAT WHAT MORRISON IS SAYG IS NOTHG THAT ANY ASSIDUO BATMAN REAR OLR THAN, SAY, 12, HASN'T ALREADY FIGURED OUT. “OBVLY, AS A FICTNAL CHARACTER, [BATMAN] IS TEND TO BE HETEROSEXUAL, BUT THE BASIS OF THE WHOLE NCEPT IS UTTERLY GAY,” THE WRER SAID. “I THK THAT'S WHY PEOPLE LIKE . ALL THE WOMEN FANCY HIM AND THEY ALL WEAR FETISH CLOTH AND JUMP AROUND ROOF TOPS TO GET HIM. HE DON'T RE – HE'S MORE TERTED HANGG OUT WH THE OLD GUY AND THE KID.” MORRISON ALREADY ALLUD TO BATMAN'S HIDN HOMOSEXUALY HIS 1986 STORY “ARKHAM ASYLUM,” WHICH THE SUPER HERO GO TO A LUNATIC ASYLUM TO TALK TO THE JOKER. THE LATTER GRABS BATMAN'S BUTTOCKS AND ASKS: “HOW'S THE BOY WONR? STARTED SHAVG YET?” WHEN, THE MID-1990S, MOVIE DIRECTOR JOEL SCHUMACHER MA TWO MOVI WH VAL KILMER AND GEE CLOONEY AS BATMAN AND CHRIS O'DONNELL AS ROB, HIS STUME SIGNERS DRSED THE HERO AND HIS SIKICK SUS THAT PLAYED UP NIPPL, BICEPS AND ABS. SOME NSIRED THE STUME CHOICE A MP AND NOT SO SUBTLE HT ABOUT WHAT WAS REALLY GOG ON WH THE CHARACTERS. A HIDDEN AGENDA? THE HOMOEROTIC NATURE OF SUPER HERO ICS HAS BEEN THE STUFF OF DISCSN SCE THE 1950S, WHEN GERMAN-AMERIN PSYCHIATRIST FREDRIC WERTHAM MA THE POT THAT THE GUYS NOT ONLY FLEW AROUND TIGHT-FTG OUTFS THAT ENHANCED THEIR PUMPED-UP MCL, BUT UALLY LIVED AN UNEXPLAED RELATNSHIP WH YOUNG MALE “SIKICKS.” WERTHAM FOUND BATMAN AND ROB PARTICULARLY GAY. IN HIS BOOK “THE SCTN OF THE INNOCENT,” PUBLISHED 1954, THE PSYCHIATRIST ALSO CRICISED ICS FOR WHAT HE NSIRED TO BE EXAGGERATED VLENCE AND FOR ENURAGG HETEROSEXUAL MASTURBATN – HE SAW THE LOOP OF WONR WOMAN'S MAGIC LASSO AS A VAGA SYMBOL. WERTHAM WAS THE JOSEPH MCCARTHY OF ICS. WHERE THE NSERVATIVE U.S. SENATOR SAW SECRET MUNISTS LURKG, THE PSYCHIATRIST SAW ALL-PERVASIVE ALBE HIDN PERVERSNS. HIS MSAGE RONATED WH AMERINS THE PARANOID COLD WAR CLIMATE. PUBLISHERS REACTED BY CREATG THE COMIC COS 1954, A FORM OF DTRY SELF-REGULATN TO AVOID STATE CENSORSHIP MEASUR. IN 2001, AMERIN WRER MICHAEL CHABON ED THE MOOD WERTHAM CREATED HIS PULZER PRIZE-WNG NOVEL “THE AMAZG ADVENTUR OF KAVALIER AND CLAY.” THE PLOT CENTR ON TWO YOUNG JEWS -- ONE OF WHOM HAS JT FLED NAZI-OCCUPIED PRAGUE LEAVG HIS FAY BEHD -- WHO GO ON TO BEE ICS THORS. ONE OF THEM IS GAY, AND HE BE OBSSED WH THE IA THAT THE CHARACTERS HE CREAT MAY BE GIVG EXPRSN TO HIS SUPPRSED CLATNS. ALAN MOORE'S CLASSIC, “WATCHMEN,” ALSO SUGGTS HIDN HOMOSEXUALY ON THE PART OF EARLY SUPER HERO: A MEMBER OF A WATCHMEN TEAM THE 1950S TURNS OUT TO BE GAY, AND MS SUICI WHEN HIS TE SEXUAL ORIENTATN TO LIGHT. NO DANGER OF THAT WH BATMAN AND ROB. THEY MAY NOT BE OFFICIALLY OUT, BUT WE KNOW THE SRE – AND 'S NOT EXACTLY UPSETTG ANYBODY.   SHARE5 M READPUBLISHED 8 MAY 2012 12:11PMUPDATED 26 AUGT 2013 10:48AMSOURCE: SBSTAGSWORLDSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS
• BATMAN IS PRETTY GAY: QUEER REPRENTATN COMICS & THE DARK KNIGHT
• GRANT MORRISON SAYS BATMAN IS GAY, TER BASILLY SHGS
• IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?

BATMAN IS GAY, IC BOOK WRER SAYSCOMIC BOOK WRER GRANT MORRISON IS KNOWN FOR BEG A B OUTRAGEO, SO HIS RECENT 'OUTG' OF BATMAN SHOULD BE TAKEN WH A GRA OF SALT, REPORTS MATTHIAS HEE FOR DIE WELT.COMIC BOOK WRER GRANT MORRISON IS KNOWN FOR BEG A B OUTRAGEO, SO HIS RECENT 'OUTG' OF BATMAN SHOULD BE TAKEN WH A GRA OF SALT. STILL, FANS OF THE PED CSAR HAVE LONG HAD REASONS TO WONR.COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS N LEAD UNNVENTNAL LIV. VERY FEW OF THEM ARE MARRIED, OR HAVE KIDS, OR A NORMAL JOB. IF MORS LIVE WH THEM – UNUAL, BUT TAKE DONALD DUCK AS AN EXAMPLE – THEY ARE “NEPHEWS,” AND WE GET NO CLUE AS TO WHO THEIR PARENTS ARE OR WHY THEY LIVE WH THEIR UNCLE. IF THE CHARACTERS LIVE MUNALLY, THEN IS UALLY MEN ONLY AND THE SET-UP IS NOT WHOUT PARALLELS TO MARRIED LIFE: THAT'S THE WAY IS FOR SAME STREET'S BERT AND ERNIE, THE WELL-KNOWN GERMAN IC FIGUR FIX AND FOXI, OR FOR THAT MATTER, BATMAN AND ROB. IN THE REAL WORLD, ARRANGEMENTS LIKE THAT ARE UALLY E FOR PLENTY OF MENTARY. WHICH IS WHY 'S NOT EXACTLY A HUGE SURPRISE THAT AN OFFICIAL BATMAN INC. THOR HAS NOW E OUT AND JT SAID : BATMAN IS GAY. “GAYNS IS BUILT TO BATMAN,” GRANT MORRISON, A ST WHO HAS BEEN WRG FOR THE SERI SCE 2006, TOLD A PLAYBOY TERVIEWER. “I'M NOT G GAY THE PEJORATIVE SENSE, BUT BATMAN IS VERY, VERY GAY. THERE'S JT NO NYG .” MORRISON, WHOSE FANS NSIR HIM ALONG WH ALAN MOORE TO BE THE GREATT LIVG ICS THOR, IS KNOWN FOR LAYG ON A B THICK. THIS MAY JT BE HIM BEG PROVOTIVE FOR THE SAKE OF . ONE OF HIS FIRST SERI, THE 1980S, WAS LLED “THE NEW ADVENTUR OF HLER." THE HERO OF HIS BT-KNOWN WORK, "THE INVISIBL" – A SERI ABOUT VOODOO, TIME TRAVEL AND THE MARQUIS SA – IS A BALD, CYNIL, VCIBLE MACHO-MAN WHO LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HIS CREATOR. WHEN BAD SAL THREATENED TO PUT AN END TO “THE INVISIBL,” MORRISON ANISED A WORLD-WI “WANKATHON” – A MASS MASTURBATN SSN AT A SET TIME (ON THANKSGIVG DAY) TO ST A MAGIC SPELL THAT WOULD KEEP HIS CREATN GOG. IT WORKED. MORRISON'S OUTRAGEO PLAN ED SO MUCH MEDIA BUZZ THAT SAL SOARED. STILL: THE FACT REMAS THAT WHAT MORRISON IS SAYG IS NOTHG THAT ANY ASSIDUO BATMAN REAR OLR THAN, SAY, 12, HASN'T ALREADY FIGURED OUT. “OBVLY, AS A FICTNAL CHARACTER, [BATMAN] IS TEND TO BE HETEROSEXUAL, BUT THE BASIS OF THE WHOLE NCEPT IS UTTERLY GAY,” THE WRER SAID. “I THK THAT'S WHY PEOPLE LIKE . ALL THE WOMEN FANCY HIM AND THEY ALL WEAR FETISH CLOTH AND JUMP AROUND ROOF TOPS TO GET HIM. HE DON'T RE – HE'S MORE TERTED HANGG OUT WH THE OLD GUY AND THE KID.” MORRISON ALREADY ALLUD TO BATMAN'S HIDN HOMOSEXUALY HIS 1986 STORY “ARKHAM ASYLUM,” WHICH THE SUPER HERO GO TO A LUNATIC ASYLUM TO TALK TO THE JOKER. THE LATTER GRABS BATMAN'S BUTTOCKS AND ASKS: “HOW'S THE BOY WONR? STARTED SHAVG YET?” WHEN, THE MID-1990S, MOVIE DIRECTOR JOEL SCHUMACHER MA TWO MOVI WH VAL KILMER AND GEE CLOONEY AS BATMAN AND CHRIS O'DONNELL AS ROB, HIS STUME SIGNERS DRSED THE HERO AND HIS SIKICK SUS THAT PLAYED UP NIPPL, BICEPS AND ABS. SOME NSIRED THE STUME CHOICE A MP AND NOT SO SUBTLE HT ABOUT WHAT WAS REALLY GOG ON WH THE CHARACTERS. A HIDDEN AGENDA? THE HOMOEROTIC NATURE OF SUPER HERO ICS HAS BEEN THE STUFF OF DISCSN SCE THE 1950S, WHEN GERMAN-AMERIN PSYCHIATRIST FREDRIC WERTHAM MA THE POT THAT THE GUYS NOT ONLY FLEW AROUND TIGHT-FTG OUTFS THAT ENHANCED THEIR PUMPED-UP MCL, BUT UALLY LIVED AN UNEXPLAED RELATNSHIP WH YOUNG MALE “SIKICKS.” WERTHAM FOUND BATMAN AND ROB PARTICULARLY GAY. IN HIS BOOK “THE SCTN OF THE INNOCENT,” PUBLISHED 1954, THE PSYCHIATRIST ALSO CRICISED ICS FOR WHAT HE NSIRED TO BE EXAGGERATED VLENCE AND FOR ENURAGG HETEROSEXUAL MASTURBATN – HE SAW THE LOOP OF WONR WOMAN'S MAGIC LASSO AS A VAGA SYMBOL. WERTHAM WAS THE JOSEPH MCCARTHY OF ICS. WHERE THE NSERVATIVE U.S. SENATOR SAW SECRET MUNISTS LURKG, THE PSYCHIATRIST SAW ALL-PERVASIVE ALBE HIDN PERVERSNS. HIS MSAGE RONATED WH AMERINS THE PARANOID COLD WAR CLIMATE. PUBLISHERS REACTED BY CREATG THE COMIC COS 1954, A FORM OF DTRY SELF-REGULATN TO AVOID STATE CENSORSHIP MEASUR. IN 2001, AMERIN WRER MICHAEL CHABON ED THE MOOD WERTHAM CREATED HIS PULZER PRIZE-WNG NOVEL “THE AMAZG ADVENTUR OF KAVALIER AND CLAY.” THE PLOT CENTR ON TWO YOUNG JEWS -- ONE OF WHOM HAS JT FLED NAZI-OCCUPIED PRAGUE LEAVG HIS FAY BEHD -- WHO GO ON TO BEE ICS THORS. ONE OF THEM IS GAY, AND HE BE OBSSED WH THE IA THAT THE CHARACTERS HE CREAT MAY BE GIVG EXPRSN TO HIS SUPPRSED CLATNS. ALAN MOORE'S CLASSIC, “WATCHMEN,” ALSO SUGGTS HIDN HOMOSEXUALY ON THE PART OF EARLY SUPER HERO: A MEMBER OF A WATCHMEN TEAM THE 1950S TURNS OUT TO BE GAY, AND MS SUICI WHEN HIS TE SEXUAL ORIENTATN TO LIGHT. NO DANGER OF THAT WH BATMAN AND ROB. THEY MAY NOT BE OFFICIALLY OUT, BUT WE KNOW THE SRE – AND 'S NOT EXACTLY UPSETTG ANYBODY.   SHARE5 M READPUBLISHED 8 MAY 2012 12:11PMUPDATED 26 AUGT 2013 10:48AMSOURCE: SBSTAGSWORLDSHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS

Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman.”. More than 80 years sce he was first troduced to rears, and after s of homoerotic subtext wh his pann Batman, ics’ most tsty sikick Rob has nonilly e out as a cliffhanger endg to DC’s latt issue of Batman: Urban Legends, the current eratn of the Boy Wonr, Tim Drake, is shown acceptg a date vatn om his iend Bernard, havg jt rcued him om a villa while disguise as Rob. Thor has now e out and jt said : Batman is gay.

“Gayns is built to Batman, ” Grant Morrison, a St who has been wrg for the seri sce 2006, told a Playboy terviewer. “I'm not g gay the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. “Obvly, as a fictnal character, [Batman] is tend to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole ncept is utterly gay, ” the wrer said.

” Morrison already allud to Batman's hidn homosexualy his 1986 story “Arkham Asylum, ” which the super hero go to a lunatic asylum to talk to the Joker. The homoerotic nature of super hero ics has been the stuff of discsn sce the 1950s, when German-Amerin psychiatrist Fredric Wertham ma the pot that the guys not only flew around tight-ftg outfs that enhanced their pumped-up mcl, but ually lived an unexplaed relatnship wh young male “sikicks. ” Wertham found Batman and Rob particularly gay.

BATMAN IS PRETTY GAY: QUEER REPRENTATN COMICS & THE DARK KNIGHT

One of them is gay, and he be obssed wh the ia that the characters he creat may be givg exprsn to his supprsed clatns. Alan Moore's classic, “Watchmen, ” also suggts hidn homosexualy on the part of early super hero: a member of a Watchmen team the 1950s turns out to be gay, and ms suici when his te sexual orientatn to light. 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. I’m not g gay the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay.

GRANT MORRISON SAYS BATMAN IS GAY, TER BASILLY SHGS

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.

“He’d be much healthier if he were gay, ” Miller said. The few attempts at creatg a gay character were more often than not handled poorly.