DC Comics -publisher Dan DiD revealed that an existg character - who was prevly assumed to be straight - would bee ‘one of our most proment gay characters’.
Contents:
- BATMAN N'T E OUT AS GAY – HIS CHARACTER RELI ON HIM BEG NIAL
- HOW DID BATMAN GO FROM BEG FUN AND GAY TO SAD AND BORG?
- IS BATMAN GAY? MAJOR DC COMICS CHARACTER TO E OUT OF THE CLOSET
BATMAN N'T E OUT AS GAY – HIS CHARACTER RELI ON HIM BEG NIAL
Created 1998, Apollo and Midnighter were among the first married gay upl superhero ics — and they were totally parodi of Batman and Superman. Now, thanks to DC Comics ntuy, the four characters fally met face to face. * is batman going to be gay *
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Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman. 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.
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HOW DID BATMAN GO FROM BEG FUN AND GAY TO SAD AND BORG?
I don't thk Batman will e out; bee everyone already knows he's gay. " The hero disperse, and life go on exactly as did Batman gay?
But gayns – om high mp to tense homoeroticism – is an important aspect of that readg is nothg new. In the 50s, the accatns that Bce and Dick "Rob" Grayson reprented "a wish-dream of two homosexuals livg together" went to a Senate submtee hearg, and the ic-book edors rpond by brgg Batgirl and Batwoman, double-dat for the dynamic duo. If he me out as gay, he wouldn't be the moody, difficult figure we've grown to love; and ironilly, by clarg himself as happily gay, Batman – as a cultural in – would actually be ls fascatg, ls plex, ls queer.
IS BATMAN GAY? MAJOR DC COMICS CHARACTER TO E OUT OF THE CLOSET
Though speculatn about Rob’s sexualy has always been a part of the character’s mystique (see “Ambiguoly Gay Duo“), DC has never explicly labeled the famed sikick as LGBTQ; that mod operandi changed this week wh the latt issue of Batman: Urban Legends, where the character accepts an vatn to go on a date wh another man named Bernard Dowd.