*lghs gay*
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. " 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.
GAY JOK
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?
Founr of webse Voice of the Fay, John-Henry Wten, said of the film: “It was chock full of pro-gay propaganda. Nor do the ongog “two Dads” joke ever reference a gay relatnship.