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BATMAN IS PRETTY GAY: QUEER REPRENTATN COMICS & THE DARK KNIGHT
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. Acrdg to a ep-dive to the topic by Slate, an anti-ics psychiatrist even ttified before a Senate Submtee on Juvenile Delquency 1954, slammg the Batman ics as “a wish-dream of two homosexuals livg together.
” Ocsnally, Batman ic wrers seemed to slyly embrace the ia of Rob beg gay, even as DC Comics officially mataed the character was straight. The news a few months after a versn of Marvel’s Capta Ameri ma headl by g out as gay. 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.