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BATMAN FOREVER IS GAY
We might five the transgrsn of subtextual queerns (there if you want to see , but easily whewashed if you're a homophobe) if there was anythg else to make up for the film, but there isn't. Warner not only is Sela's one bisexual relatnship not explicly nfirmed on-screen, even if we extend the latu to The Batman of takg subtext as fact then The Batman falls firmly the trap of buryg your gays. (Wele to Movi Are Gay, a Pri Month seri where we explore the tentnal, or accintal, ways LGBTQIA+ them, characters, and creativ have shaped cema.
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Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman. And that’s s stat as the first major superhero film to attempt to discs homosexualy and bisexualy. Now, ’s worth notg that Batman Forever isn’t explicly brgg up gay/bisexual relatnships.
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However, director Joel Schumacher took the res after Tim Burton’s parture and Schumacher has been an openly gay artist for the majory of his reer. He ed his big-budget anchise moment to sneak a lot about gay/bisexual relatnships. So, while this article is gog to be a ep dive to how gay Batman Forever is, ’s important to note that all of this is jt beneath the surface of what you see the movie.
It’s clear that Schumacher wanted to explore the gay unrton of the relatnship between Batman and Rob. He asserted that the relatnship between Batman and Rob was “a wish dream of two homosexuals livg together” and that “the Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasi.
” Of urse, this was prented a negative tone and helped to stigmatize the ia of Batman and Rob as homosexual partners. Simply the ntuo e of the word “partner” the dialogue brgs up allns to homosexual relatnships. 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.