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BATMAN N'T E OUT AS GAY – HIS CHARACTER RELI ON HIM BEG NIAL
At one end, Batman #8, Detective Comics #241, March 1957: (#1) (Hat tip to Steven Leve.) And at the other end, A rollerbladg Batman a recent Pri para. celebratorily gay rabow: (#2) The old Batman of the ics took on rabow garb -- of two typ: a succsn of solid-lor stum, as above;… * gay batman rainbow *
Celebratorily gay rabow:.
WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
There’s a long tradn of readg gay subtexts to Batman ics and another of creatg explicly gay versns of Batman and other characters. Early gay subtextual readgs foced on Batman’s relatnship to Rob the Boy Wonr (some discsn here).
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The two extreme figur are the gay-slanted on: at the top, a pkish-red (magentoid) pe wh a clearly pk bodysu; on the bottom, a ep purple pe wh a lavenr bodysu. DC Comics' announcement that a high-profile superhero is about to e out – a rponse to Marvel's "gay weddg" story – has stirred up a lot of gossip, wh one name repeatedly put forward, and regularly dismissed. Batman, gay?