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Contents:
- BATMAN IS PRETTY GAY: QUEER REPRENTATN COMICS & THE DARK KNIGHT
- GAY/ BISEXUAL BATMAN
- IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? ALL ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS EXPLAED
- IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
BATMAN IS PRETTY GAY: QUEER REPRENTATN COMICS & THE DARK KNIGHT
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. * batman gay in comics *
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. Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman. The list of superhero accintally or liberately d as queer who have never nonilly been brought out of the closet bee of homophobia is long and prsg.
But wa, I n hear the ments already: So now Tim is jt The Rob Who Is Gay? Tim Drake’s story speaks to what advot for diversy n fet and homophob would rather ignore: There are legimate reasons to give a long-standg straight character a g-out story beyond “more diversy is more. 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.
GAY/ BISEXUAL BATMAN
From Wonr Woman to Northstar, here are some of the most groundbreakg LGBTQ characters and gay superhero Marvel and DC Comics non. * batman gay in comics *
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. 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.
IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? ALL ROMANTIC RELATNSHIPS EXPLAED
* batman gay in comics *
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. Wh the backlash to Joel Schumacher’s 1997 Batman & Rob for “beg too gay” and darg to put nippl the Bat-su, DC kept non-hetero romance far away om the ics.
IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
“As a gay boy growg up the 1950s and 60s a voutly Catholic fay, I’d grown apt at ncealg parts of myself. You n be gay, bi, trans, or whatever sha of awome you are and be a hero.