A gay story (joker and batman)
Contents:
- BATMAN N'T E OUT AS GAY – HIS CHARACTER RELI ON HIM BEG NIAL
- GEEK OUT: JOKER & BATMAN - HOMOEROTIC OR STRAIGHT OUT GAY!
- IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
- FEATURED FANFICTN
BATMAN N'T E OUT AS GAY – HIS CHARACTER RELI ON HIM BEG NIAL
* joker and batman gay *
Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman. DC Comics' announcement that a high-profile superhero is about to e out – a rponse to Marvel's "gay weddg" story – has stirred up a lot of gossip, wh one name repeatedly put forward, and regularly dismissed. Batman, gay?
I don't thk Batman will e out; bee everyone already knows he's gay. " The hero disperse, and life go on exactly as did Batman gay?
But gayns – om high mp to tense homoeroticism – is an important aspect of that readg is nothg new. In the 50s, the accatns that Bce and Dick "Rob" Grayson reprented "a wish-dream of two homosexuals livg together" went to a Senate submtee hearg, and the ic-book edors rpond by brgg Batgirl and Batwoman, double-dat for the dynamic duo. If he me out as gay, he wouldn't be the moody, difficult figure we've grown to love; and ironilly, by clarg himself as happily gay, Batman – as a cultural in – would actually be ls fascatg, ls plex, ls queer.
GEEK OUT: JOKER & BATMAN - HOMOEROTIC OR STRAIGHT OUT GAY!
Do you thk that joker is gay for batman? The topic is this:We all know the relatnship between Batman & the Joker has a level of homoerotic subtext.
That had fans wonr – were there any other hts at Batman beg gay before? Is Batman gay, bisexual, or straight?
Before I get to those new mors and speculatns, I want to rewd a b and go through some key clu on why Batman ‘uld’ be gay or bi. We have never actually seen any ditn that The Dark Knight was gay or bi. You n see how a dirty md n misterpret the am, but there is nothg gay behd them.
IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
In the new Batman seri by Chip Zdarsky – specifilly, Batman: The Knight #5, there’s this panel where Bce seems gay, bisexual, or at least bi-cur:.
In the end, was never explicly stated if Batman was straight, gay, bi, or anythg else, so ’s up to you – the rear – to ci for yourself. We might five the transgrsn of subtextual queerns (there if you want to see , but easily whewashed if you're a homophobe) if there was anythg else to make up for the film, but there isn't.
Warner not only is Sela's one bisexual relatnship not explicly nfirmed on-screen, even if we extend the latu to The Batman of takg subtext as fact then The Batman falls firmly the trap of buryg your gays.
FEATURED FANFICTN
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. His pulsn to Joker-fy his victims also feeds the homophobic myth of a gay nversn agenda.