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BATMAN IS PRETTY GAY: QUEER REPRENTATN COMICS & THE DARK KNIGHT
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Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman. 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.
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. Unpackg the gay subtext of Rob, the Boy Wonr.
GAY/ BISEXUAL BATMAN
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.