Has the Joker Been Shoved In the Closet? This Petn Aims to Make Him Gay | Hor, the Queer Social Network

Contents:

• DC COMICS FANS LNCH PETN TO 'MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA'
• SHOULD DC ‘MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA’?
• DC COMICS FANS ARE PETNG TO MAKE THE JOKER GAY
• FANS LNCH PETN FOR DC COMICS TO MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA
• FANS ARE PETNG TO 'MAKE JOKER GAY AGA'
• HAS THE JOKER BEEN SHOVED IN THE CLOSET? THIS PETN AIMS TO MAKE HIM GAY
• FANS ARE TELLG DC TO MAKE THE JOKER GAY
• BATMAN FANS WANT DC TO ‘MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA’
• PETN FOR DC COMICS TO MAKE JOKER GAY HAS ALMOST REACHED ITS GOAL
• PETN FOR GEOFF JOHNS TO MAKE THE JOKER GAY "AGA"

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. 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?

DC COMICS FANS ARE PETNG TO MAKE THE JOKER GAY

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.

” 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.

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

"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. 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.

FANS ARE PETNG TO 'MAKE JOKER GAY AGA'

Frank Miller once summarized the Joker and Batman has a "homophobic nightmare. " But "beg queer don't make someone a bad person, " Shtakova pots out, "therefore, fictnal characters don't need to be good and righteo to be gay. There's no reason that the historil subtext of a gay, bisexual, pansexual, queer or asexual Joker n't be brought back to the surface a siar, unmistakable way.

A Rsian ic book fan has lnched a petn on to 'make the Joker gay aga, ' as [... A Rsian ic book fan has lnched a petn on to "make the Joker gay aga, " as poted out by Bleedg Cool. The Joker is a ic book character wh almost 80 years history, half of which he was portrayed as homosexual - for stance, such signifint graphic novels as Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns or Grant Morrison's Arkham Asylum: A Ser Hoe on Ser Earth.

HAS THE JOKER BEEN SHOVED IN THE CLOSET? THIS PETN AIMS TO MAKE HIM GAY

Neal Adams claimed that The Joker was and always had been homosexual. However, the late neti someone cid to erase Joker's homosexualy and troduced Harley Qun as his girliend (by the way, Harley was ma up for the Batman: The Animated Seri to replace the Joker one scene, which he was supposed to jump om the ke drag).

His enforced relatnship wh Harley Qun looks like an attempt to retnned his homosexualy and turn him acceptable straight man. But on the other hand, Gotham seri The Pengu beme gay whout any problem, and he is morally no better than the Joker. It's not homophobic to have a queer villa.

FANS ARE TELLG DC TO MAKE THE JOKER GAY

We ask DC Comics to rtore The Joker's homosexualy ics and other media.

The above is a word-for-word py and paste om a post ma on Comic Book Rourc' msage board dated Augt 21, ers ma the se for Joker beg asexual — "Joker is too trollish to be sure about what is really gog on wh him, " wrote JBatmanFan05 — while others ma the se for the villa beg "ambiguoly gay. ""I thk of The Joker more as a pansexual who's terted whatever strik his mood at the time, " wrote er LEGO Batman movie most recently played up Joker's "love" for the Dark Knight, explorg the relatnship between the hero and villa: the Joker needs Batman, as has often been portrayed across var media across var ntui, whether or not a sexual ponent is inic Batman foe would jo an ever-expandg list of LGBTQ characters ics: popular A-listers like DC's Catwoman and Marvel's Iceman have been portrayed as bisexual or gay, wh the icy X-Man's seri most recently beg nomated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstandg Comic Book.

However, hundreds of fans have now signed a new petn llg for the clown-faced menace to be gay aga. Superfan Elena Shtakova has poted out that for at least half of The Joker’s he was picted as homosexual – one who is obssed wh Batman.

BATMAN FANS WANT DC TO ‘MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA’

€œThe Joker is a ic book character wh almost 80 years history, half of which he was portrayed as homosexual – for stance, such signifint graphic novels as Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns or Grant Morrison’s Arkham Asylum: A Ser Hoe on Ser Earth, †the petn reads. €œNeal 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.

Elena then pots to specific storyl where The Joker’s homosexualy has played a part the ic book seri.

Elena then argu that the 1990s, Harley Qun was troduced as The Joker’s love tert an attempt to eradite his past homosexualy. €œHowever, the late neti someone cid to erase Joker’s homosexualy and troduced Harley Qun as his girliend (by the way, Harley was ma up for the Batman: The Animated Seri to replace the Joker one scene, which he was supposed to jump om the ke drag).

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

€œHis enforced relatnship wh Harley Qun looks like an attempt to retnned his homosexualy and turn him acceptable straight man.

The petn nclus: “We ask DC Comics to rtore The Joker’s homosexualy ics and other media. Superfan Elena Shtakova has poted out that for at least half of The Joker’s he was picted as homosexual – one who is obssed wh Batman.

PETN FOR GEOFF JOHNS TO MAKE THE JOKER GAY "AGA"

“The Joker is a ic book character wh almost 80 years history, half of which he was portrayed as homosexual – for stance, such signifint graphic novels as Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns or Grant Morrison’s Arkham Asylum: A Ser Hoe on Ser Earth, ” the petn reads.