Batman n't e out as gay – his character reli on him beg nial | Will Brooker | The Guardian

Contents:

• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: IS HE GAY?IS BATMAN GAY?
• IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? ALL ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS EXPLAED
• BATMAN N'T E OUT AS GAY – HIS CHARACTER RELI ON HIM BEG NIAL
• IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
• IS BATMAN GAY?

FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: IS HE GAY?IS BATMAN GAY?

Is Batman Gay: A 2020 Update. Sendly, he stat that there’s always been a gay subtext the Dark Knight’s story particularly wh regards to his relatnship wh his Vulture terview: “This all started way before me.

And Batman and Rob are two homosexual men. There’s always been this thg about Batman and Rob beg gay. He is acrdg to Gee Clooney who played the superhero the 1997 movie Batman and about Batman as a iend of Dorothy (via): “The actor who was beg terviewed on an Amerin Osr show, replied to host Barbara Walters’ who asked if he would ever play a gay wboy.

IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? ALL ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS EXPLAED

Mr Clooney said he believed he had already played a gay character, “I was a bber su and I had bber nippl. I uld have played Batman straight, but I ma him gay.

Is Batman Gay? Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman.

BATMAN N'T E OUT AS GAY – HIS CHARACTER RELI ON HIM BEG NIAL

But he has had his fair share of romantic volvements, which ually begs the qutn is Batman gay, bisexual, or straight? The Bottom Le: Is Batman Gay, Bisex, or Straight? 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.

Batman, gay?

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.

IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?

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. In March, Marvel unveiled their first gay Capta Ameri character — a queer youth advote named Aaron Fischer — to be clud the upg “Uned Stat of Capta Ameri” ic book miseri.

That had fans wonr – were there any other hts at Batman beg gay before? Is Batman gay, bisexual, or straight? Before I get to those new mors and speculatns, I want to rewd a b and go through some key clu on why Batman ‘uld’ be gay or bi.

IS BATMAN GAY?

We have never actually seen any ditn that The Dark Knight was gay or bi. You n see how a dirty md n misterpret the am, but there is nothg gay behd them. In the new Batman seri by Chip Zdarsky – specifilly, Batman: The Knight #5, there’s this panel where Bce seems gay, bisexual, or at least bi-cur:.

In the end, was never explicly stated if Batman was straight, gay, bi, or anythg else, so ’s up to you – the rear – to ci for yourself. Jt one is the theory that Batman is one big gay parable, and when panels om the ics’ goln age show Bce Wayne and Dick Grayson wakg up bed together Wayne Manner (plete wh double entendr about a ld shower) or Batman sportg a sue of rabow-hued stum, ’s hard to argue – search for ‘gay Batman’ on Google to see for yourself. Railg agast the gome and sexually viant ntent of ic books, Wertham claimed Wonr Woman had a bondage subtext, imag of female nudy were ncealed nocuo objects like tre, and that ‘Batman stori are psychologilly homosexual’.

But wasn’t until the 2000s that Batman imagery ripe for gay reterpretatn me to light. Sce then, even more Batman imagery and ntent has emerged that looks extremely gay when viewed through the prism of morn sexual polics and motifs. Even the word ‘mp’ we associate wh the 1966 TV show wh Adam Wt and Burt Ward has sce attracted gay overton.