Created 1998, Apollo and Midnighter were among the first married gay upl superhero ics — and they were totally parodi of Batman and Superman. Now, thanks to DC Comics ntuy, the four characters fally met face to face.
Contents:
- BATMAN IS PRETTY GAY: QUEER REPRENTATN COMICS & THE DARK KNIGHT
- IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
BATMAN IS PRETTY GAY: QUEER REPRENTATN COMICS & THE DARK KNIGHT
Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman. In March, Marvel unveiled their first gay Capta Ameri character — a queer youth advote named Aaron Fischer — to be clud the upg “Uned Stat of Capta Ameri” ic book miseri. Bce Wayne isn't bi or gay.
Wh the recent passg of Kev Conroy, the voice of the ped csar Batman: The Animated Seri and gay in, felt like a good time to discs LGBTQIA+ reprentatn ic books, specifilly Superhero ics. Lookg past the tastels jok about Bce spendg all of his time wh an old Brish man and a speedo-clad boy he kept a ve, there has always been a homoerotic subtext to Batman.
In a 2012 Playboy terview, Morrison said “Gayns is built to Batman.
IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
I’m not g gay the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. Obvly, as a fictnal character, he’s tend to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole ncept is utterly gay. This new wave of ercive censorship forced the hands of creators to keep thgs subtextual and give their hero a stone-ld se of the “not gays.
She served as Batman’s love tert for a few years, specifilly orr to fend off mors that Bce was gay. “He’d be much healthier if he were gay, ” Miller said. The few attempts at creatg a gay character were more often than not handled poorly.
DC Comics buted Extraño, a gay magician hero, 1988. He embodied typil stereotyp of a homosexual man and was eventually killed by way of an HIV fectn while battlg Hemo-Gobl the AIDS vampire.