Should DC 'Make The Joker Gay Aga'? - INTO

Contents:

• DC COMICS FANS LNCH PETN TO 'MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA'
• SHOULD DC ‘MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA’?
• FANS LNCH PETN FOR DC COMICS TO MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA
• FANS ARE PETNG TO 'MAKE JOKER GAY AGA'
• PETN FOR DC COMICS TO MAKE JOKER GAY HAS ALMOST REACHED ITS GOAL

DC COMICS FANS LNCH PETN TO 'MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA'

Led by the efforts of a Rsian ic book rear, a small group of fans is petng DC Comics to make The Joker gay 'aga'.

A group of DC Comics fans is petng the publisher to "make The Joker gay aga. " To be clear, gay, this stance, is reference to The Joker beg portrayed as a homosexual man. The petn asserts The Joker was portrayed as homosexual for at least half of his 80-pl years of existence and that Batman: The Animated Seri "retnned his homosexualy" by troducg Harley Qun as a love tert.

The fact of the matter is that there is ltle textual evince as to The Joker's sexual orientatn one way or the other, so there is no way to make him "gay aga" when there's ltle evince he was ever gay the first place.

SHOULD DC ‘MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA’?

Instead, seems possible that this petn may be an effort by trolls to tie one of fictn's most famo serial killers to the ancient stereotype of homosexual men as predatory creatur.

It seems dub that any LGBTQ ic fan would quote the notorly homophobic Frank Miller's take on anythg as the gospel tth or that they would so sually dismiss Harley Qun as a beard for The Joker, given the character's own long history as a LGBTQ in.

FANS LNCH PETN FOR DC COMICS TO MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA

Is there any superhero gayer than Batman?

As far back as 1954, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham claimed his book Sctn of the Innocent that “Batman stori are psychologilly homosexual. Bee of this, homoerotic tennci stretch throughout both of their stori even wir than The Joker’s gr. In light of Joaqu Phoenix’s new take on the character, a petn that urg DC to “Make The Joker Gay Aga” has picked up tractn, argug that the Clown Prce of Crime should be officially “let out of the closet, ” but is this the kd of reprentatn that the LGBTQ muny needs right now?

Back the ’80s, acclaimed Batman wrer Neal Adams claimed that The Joker was and always had been homosexual, somethg which var other ic book wrers have subsequently played around wh ever sce. The stanc once prompted ic book legend Frank Miller to scribe the relatnship that Batman and The Joker share as a “homophobic nightmare.

FANS ARE PETNG TO 'MAKE JOKER GAY AGA'

” If Bce Wayne n be likened to a closeted gay man obssed wh secrecy and reprsn, then the Clown Prce of Crime symboliz what n happen when queer viance ns ee. From the effete antagonists Aled Hchck movi like Rope and Psycho to Javier Barm’s recent stab at villay Skyfall, gay dg has equently been ed as a shorthand for evil cema and beyond, perpetuatg harmful stereotyp that still haven’t been eradited.

This would suggt that DC should jt lay out their rds and officially “make the Joker gay aga. A petn on started by Elena Shtakova lls for DC Entertament to "Make The Joker Gay Aga, " pactg the long-nng speculatn about the DC villa's sexualy to a clear ll to actn. "The Joker is a character wh almost 80 years [of] history, half of which he was portrayed as homosexual, " Shtakova stat.

"Neal Adams claimed that the Joker was and always had been homosexual [.. That is why 's so important to me and other queer rears to return his homosexualy.

PETN FOR DC COMICS TO MAKE JOKER GAY HAS ALMOST REACHED ITS GOAL

Takg the character's entire history to acunt, different readgs uld eher see a troubled portra of a closeted gay man feigng an tert heterosexualy, or someone who is openly bisexual, pansexual or sexually fluid.

His pulsn to Joker-fy his victims also feeds the homophobic myth of a gay nversn agenda. Frank Miller once summarized the Joker and Batman has a "homophobic nightmare.