*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.
IS THE JOKER GAY, BISEX, OR STRAIGHT?
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. 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? 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. Due to that, let’s see whether Joker is gay, bisexual, or straight.