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News & ArtsFriday, April 27, 2012
Nerd / LGBTQITSLFA Slog Poll: Is Gayness Built Into Batman?
Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:19 PM
This Playboy interview with comics writer Grant Morrison has been making the rounds:
Gayness is built into Batman. I’m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There’s just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he’s intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay. I think that’s why people like it.
Morrison has written some of the best Batman comics since the 1980s, so he ought to know. But who knows better than Slog? Nobody, that's who:
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The real joke is your stubborn, bone deep conviction that somehow, somewhere, all of this makes sense! That's what cracks me up each time!
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My first sexual feelings, at age 3: watching a Batman & Robin episode (live-action B&W--that's what was on TV in Outer Mongolia in the mid-70's) in which Robin was tied up & hanging from something, waiting for Batman to come rescue him. I mean, come on.
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The Frank Miller Batman is actually so straight that he comes all the way back around to gay again.
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Batman has and always will be my favorite masked vigilante, he is also as gay as tangerines. I see no conflict here.
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With Robin, ya, but otherwise I'm not sure how Batman is more gay than the other super-heroes. Morrison is trolling anyway.
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Wasn't this more than implied by the SNL parody, Ambiguously Gay Duo?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEAYcR8w_…
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No, Paul, you're the only other guy along with bankster Bruce Wayne who would want a ward named Dick, the rest of us prefer our young wards to be female and named Tiffany.
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Eh... I prefer to think he's just not motivated by sex. With Robin, i.e. "boy I adopted and indoctrinated into my insane crusade (and whose crime fighting alter ego doesn't wear pants)"... there might be something sexual going on there but I'm not sure it's a good example of what we call gay. Creepy, hell yes. More pedophilic/self-aggrandizing than gay, though, I think.
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I've always thought so. He's some rich bachelor who houses this twink who's a circus performer and no doubt has remarkable flexibility. He's always turning down Catwoman and ladies at cocktail parties.
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