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BATMAN V SUPERMAN: 11 OF THEIR GAYT MOMENTS
To celebrate the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Jtice, PkNews tak a look at the superhero’ most homoerotic moment. Superman and Lex Luthor's gay love child?
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This is a dynamic which led homophobic cric Fredric Wertham to suggt the 1950s that superhero (pecially Batman and Rob) promoted homosexualy through their privilegg of male/male bonds.
BATMAN AND SUPERMAN ARE GAY!
The pot here isn’t that Superman was really gay those early ics. But the obssn wh double inty and disavowed sire do suggt that the character has been built on anxieti about homosexualy and masculy. ) But at the same time, refg to date women also mak Superman ls than fully male a homophobic, misogynist culture which se homosexualy as feme and therefore lser.
There are superhero stori over the years, though, that have qutned the genre’s terlked mments to homosexual panic and to vlence.
Superman, many of his eratns, is most sred not of Kryptone but of femy, which has stereotypilly been lumped together wh homosexualy.