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.
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FROM ‘THE BATMAN’ TO ‘LU’ AND ‘BETY AND THE BEAST,’ STUDS ALREADY HAVE A MAJOR ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PROBLEM
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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. We might five the transgrsn of subtextual queerns (there if you want to see , but easily whewashed if you're a homophobe) if there was anythg else to make up for the film, but there isn't. Warner not only is Sela's one bisexual relatnship not explicly nfirmed on-screen, even if we extend the latu to The Batman of takg subtext as fact then The Batman falls firmly the trap of buryg your gays.
Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman.”. Only five films featured lbian characters while six featured gay men. That don't even touch the “bury your gays” problem this would create.
Rowlg clared that Dumbledore was gay after the Harry Potter seri was already plete 2007? Well, the Hogwarts headmaster's sexualy was still not ma explic the 2018 prequel Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crim of Grlwald spe s foc on his relatnship wh the evil wizard Rowlg claims he was love this week, actor Josh Gad admted that the highly publicized “exclively gay moment” the 2017 Bety and the Beast remake “didn't go far enough. ” At the time, much was ma of Disney's first onscreen gay moment, which turned out to be a blk-and-you-miss- dance between Gaston's sikick LeFou (Gad) and some random guy.