Batman is Pretty Gay: Queer Reprentatn Comics & The Dark Knight - Philalphia Weekly

Contents:

• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: IS HE GAY?IS BATMAN GAY?
• BATMAN FOREVER IS GAY
• IS BATMAN GAY?
• BATMAN IS PRETTY GAY: QUEER REPRENTATN COMICS & THE DARK KNIGHT
• FANS ARE JT FDG OUT THAT LONGTIME BATMAN VOICE ACTOR IS GAY–AND THEY'RE GEEKG OUT
• IS BATMAN GAY? FANS WANT JOEL SCHUMACHER'S NTROVERSIAL 'BATMAN FOREVER' CUT RELEASED AND HERO OUT OF THE CLOSET
• GAY/ BISEXUAL BATMAN
• IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?

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.

BATMAN FOREVER IS GAY

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. Mr Clooney said he believed he had already played a gay character, “I was a bber su and I had bber nippl.

IS BATMAN GAY?

I uld have played Batman straight, but I ma him gay. Is Batman Gay?

BATMAN IS PRETTY GAY: QUEER REPRENTATN COMICS & THE DARK KNIGHT

(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. Schumacher, a gay man, went on the rerd an terview wh Vulture 2020 to say that he never tend for Batman or Rob to be gay his movi, but perhaps he jt ma all credibly queer subnscly.

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.

FANS ARE JT FDG OUT THAT LONGTIME BATMAN VOICE ACTOR IS GAY–AND THEY'RE GEEKG OUT

Inter ers only too happy to skewer pomposy and apply sexual nuendo to absolutely anythg picked up and ran wh the ia of Batman beg the closet wh… er… gay abandon. When asked var DC ntributors if Batman was gay, the rpons didn’t make the matter any clearer.

“The Batman I wrote for 13 years isn’t gay, ” said wrer Alan Grant. “Everybody’s Batman all the way back to Bob Kane – none of them wrote him as a gay character.

But geek god Frank Miller scribed the relatnship between Batman and nemis The Joker as a ‘homophobic nightmare’. He suggted Batman sublimat his sexual urg to fightg crime and that he’d be much healthier if he were gay.

IS BATMAN GAY? FANS WANT JOEL SCHUMACHER'S NTROVERSIAL 'BATMAN FOREVER' CUT RELEASED AND HERO OUT OF THE CLOSET

As Grant Morrison told Playboy magaze, “Gayns is built to Batman. I’m not g gay the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay.

GAY/ BISEXUAL BATMAN

Obvly as a fictnal character he’s tend to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole ncept is utterly gay. After Tim Burton based Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) on the psychologilly twisted work of Frank Miller and Alana Moore (who also wrote Watchmen), Warner Brothers relieved him of duti and hand the anchise to openly gay director Joel Schumacher for Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Rob (1997). Of particular note to those lookg for gay subtext were the ‘drsg scen’ you’ve seen a ln actn flicks.

Gay Batman spills over. So New York artist Mark Chamberla disvered when a gallery exhibed his work pictg a gay Batman and Rob, some of the imag que sexually explic.

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

Chamberla adds that Batman has an unniable homoerotic subtext thanks to elements like ‘the secrecy, aterny, fetish wear, childhood trma and alienatn propellg someone to a higher llg’. Gay culture hasn’t been mastream nearly as long as Batman has, after all, and boners, rabow lors and sharg a stately mansn probably didn’t seem any stranger to wartime ic book wrers than Bert and Ernie’s livg arrangements did to Jim Henson. Popular characters are open to endls terpretatn by the artists who create stori about them, and while there might well be a rporate lg somewhere not to make Batman ‘too gay’, the power of art is that n nfound and subvert tablished mos of thought.

And isn’t that what the gay movement’s always been about too? Wh the recent passg of Kev Conroy, the voice of the ped csar Batman: The Animated Seri and gay in, felt like a good time to discs LGBTQIA+ reprentatn ic books, specifilly Superhero ics.

Lookg past the tastels jok about Bce spendg all of his time wh an old Brish man and a speedo-clad boy he kept a ve, there has always been a homoerotic subtext to Batman.