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re: Is it possible that Batman is gay?
Posted on 2/18/13 at 3:02 pm to Baloo
Posted on 2/18/13 at 3:02 pm to Baloo
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X-Men was defined by its authors as a gay metaphor as well as the explicit racial MLK/Malcolm X metaphor of Xavier and Magneto. Hell, they even had their own HIV virus. I see no reason to discard the gay reading of the X-Men because it is also a racial civil rights metaphor. It's no accident that mutant powers are latent until adolesence.
Some authors, late in the series. Not the beginning. Sure, it was about Civil Rights, and that was later used to include everything, but it started about race.
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Posted on 2/18/13 at 3:09 pm to Freauxzen
Do not believe Wertham.
And do not believe Frank Miller. He's flipflopped on his views on superheroes over the years, saying anything to be outrageous.
Batman and Robin were created to be non-sexual heterosexual characters and have been adopted by the gay community (and there's nothing wrong with that).
Over the years they've been handled by hundreds of creators who have shaped them as they desired. I have no doubt that at some point a creator or two thought to put a little gay innuendo into the mix.
In the simpler 30's and 40's, you didn't have to defend having a man and boy living in the same house. Nowadays you couldn't introduce a sidekick like Robin without answering a lot of questions about the true relationship of the two characters.
And do not believe Frank Miller. He's flipflopped on his views on superheroes over the years, saying anything to be outrageous.
Batman and Robin were created to be non-sexual heterosexual characters and have been adopted by the gay community (and there's nothing wrong with that).
Over the years they've been handled by hundreds of creators who have shaped them as they desired. I have no doubt that at some point a creator or two thought to put a little gay innuendo into the mix.
In the simpler 30's and 40's, you didn't have to defend having a man and boy living in the same house. Nowadays you couldn't introduce a sidekick like Robin without answering a lot of questions about the true relationship of the two characters.
This post was edited on 2/18/13 at 3:10 pm
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