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Contents:

• BATMAN FOREVER IS GAY
•  RELEASETHESCHUMACHERCUT JOEL SCHUMACHER BATMAN FOREVER GAY ARE FANS READY GEE CLOONEY
• [HORROR QUEERS] ‘BATMAN RETURNS’ AND COMG OUT FOR THE HOLIGAYS

BATMAN FOREVER IS GAY

And that’s s stat as the first major superhero film to attempt to discs homosexualy and bisexualy.

Now, ’s worth notg that Batman Forever isn’t explicly brgg up gay/bisexual relatnships. However, director Joel Schumacher took the res after Tim Burton’s parture and Schumacher has been an openly gay artist for the majory of his reer.

He ed his big-budget anchise moment to sneak a lot about gay/bisexual relatnships. So, while this article is gog to be a ep dive to how gay Batman Forever is, ’s important to note that all of this is jt beneath the surface of what you see the movie. It’s clear that Schumacher wanted to explore the gay unrton of the relatnship between Batman and Rob.

 RELEASETHESCHUMACHERCUT JOEL SCHUMACHER BATMAN FOREVER GAY ARE FANS READY GEE CLOONEY

He asserted that the relatnship between Batman and Rob was “a wish dream of two homosexuals livg together” and that “the Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasi. ” Of urse, this was prented a negative tone and helped to stigmatize the ia of Batman and Rob as homosexual partners.

Simply the ntuo e of the word “partner” the dialogue brgs up allns to homosexual relatnships. (Wele to Movi Are Gay, a Pri Month seri where we explore the tentnal, or accintal, ways LGBTQIA+ them, characters, and creativ have shaped cema. Schumacher, a gay man, went on the rerd an terview wh Vulture 2020 to say that he never tend for Batman or Rob to be gay his movi, but perhaps he jt ma all credibly queer subnscly.

I have never seen the mera pay any sort of attentn to a man’s ass when wasn’t (a) for edy’s sake, or (b) a gay movie. 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. While Schumacher never saw the ntroversy an anatomilly rrect stume based on Greek statu, many believe that the late director's athetic choic for 'Batman Forever' and 'Batman & Rob' were cidly homoerotic.

[HORROR QUEERS] ‘BATMAN RETURNS’ AND COMG OUT FOR THE HOLIGAYS

Gee Clooney himself has e out sayg that while Schumacher's Batman films were planned to be darker and more myster, he also noted that "Joel Schumacher told me Batman was gay. " It's entirely possible that Warner Bros Studs was aware of this and troduced Uma Thurman's hypersexualized Poison Ivy as a way of urse-rrectg this visn 'Batman & Rob' — not that that stopped Clooney om claimg he portrayed Batman as if he was a gay man. While 's unlikely that any of those 40 mut explicly state that Batman is gay, the missg footage reportedly tak a ep dive to the psychology of Bce Wayne, and if there are any stronger hts of homosexualy to be found Schumacher's visn, that's where will be.

While homosexualy is a lot more monly accepted now than was back then, fans are absolutely not ready for the ia of a gay Batman, and a Schumacher Cut jt might be more than any of them bargaed for. Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman.

Charg of Homoeroticism. Batman Forever has been regard by some as homoerotic, pecially after Garry Willis, a nservative lumnist for the Chigo Sun-Tim, sardonilly bashed the movie's mps and perceived homoerotic motifs ("'Batman Forever' is a Gay Old Time", Chigo Sun-Tim, 1995).