Rob out as gay new Batman ic, addg to DC’s LGTBQ characters - Polygon

Contents:

• GAY JOK
• DC COMICS FANS LNCH PETN TO 'MAKE THE JOKER GAY AGA'
• 4 REASONS WE NEED TO RETIRE THE BATMAN GAY JOKE

GAY JOK

Unpackg the gay subtext of Rob, the Boy Wonr. Gay subtext managed to suate self to the Dynamic Duo’s dyad om the very start. Let’s get one thg absolutely clear: Rob isn’t gay.

So have wrers like Frank Miller, Denny O’Neil, Alan Grant, and Dev Grayson—though Grayson admted that she uld “unrstand the gay readgs. After all, if a character isn’t wrten as gay, then that character n’t possibly be gay, right?

Gayns is built to Batman. Batman is VERY, very gay.

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

… but the whole basis of the ncept is utterly gay. But gay subtext managed to suate self to the Dynamic Duo’s dyad om the very start.

4 REASONS WE NEED TO RETIRE THE BATMAN GAY JOKE

“It is like a wish-dream, ” he famoly wrote, “of two homosexuals livg together.

This is the issue wh gay readgs. Any given bond between mal n be homosocial whout beg homoerotic, and even the most explicly homoerotic bond n exist whout ever bbg up agast homosexual sire.

Intentn don’t matter when to gay subtext. This is why, as a visual medium filled wh silent cu like body language and background tail, superhero ics have proven a particularly fertile vector for gay readgs over the years. That panel of a be-toweled Bce and Dick loungg together their solarium, for example, would not rry the potent homoerotic charge do, were the same scene simply scribed borg ol’ prose.