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;…
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BATMAN N'T E OUT AS GAY – HIS CHARACTER RELI ON HIM BEG NIAL
* gay batman rainbow *
Celebratorily gay rabow:. 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).
WHAT DO THE RABOW MEAN FOR GAYS?
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