Is the Joker Gay, Bisex, or Straight?

Contents:

• THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE UNR FIRE FOR BEG 'PRO-GAY PROPAGANDA'
• IS THE JOKER GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?
• GAY JOK

THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE UNR FIRE FOR BEG 'PRO-GAY PROPAGANDA'

A petn on started by Elena Shtakova lls for DC Entertament to "Make The Joker Gay Aga, " pactg the long-nng speculatn about the DC villa's sexualy to a clear ll to actn. "The Joker is a character wh almost 80 years [of] history, half of which he was portrayed as homosexual, " Shtakova stat. "Neal Adams claimed that the Joker was and always had been homosexual [..

That is why 's so important to me and other queer rears to return his homosexualy.

Takg the character's entire history to acunt, different readgs uld eher see a troubled portra of a closeted gay man feigng an tert heterosexualy, or someone who is openly bisexual, pansexual or sexually fluid.

IS THE JOKER GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?

His pulsn to Joker-fy his victims also feeds the homophobic myth of a gay nversn agenda. Frank Miller once summarized the Joker and Batman has a "homophobic nightmare.

GAY JOK

" But "beg queer don't make someone a bad person, " Shtakova pots out, "therefore, fictnal characters don't need to be good and righteo to be gay. There's no reason that the historil subtext of a gay, bisexual, pansexual, queer or asexual Joker n't be brought back to the surface a siar, unmistakable way. Now, those same crics are llg out The LEGO Batman film for apparently beg ‘pro-gay propaganda’.

There are no obvly gay characters, are there?