DC Writer: "Batman is Gay, that's why people like him"

[Jordan-esque]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/26/batman-gay-grant-morrison-superhero-comics_n_1456878.html#s515732&title=Alicia_Keys_


Is Batman, one of the world's most iconic superheroes really a gay man?

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Action Comics writer Grant Morrison, who is best known for revamping DC Comics' family of Batman titles, spoke at length about comic superheroes in an interview with Playboy magazine, confirming maybe those Batman and Robin rumors aren't so far-fetched after all, because the title character is "very gay" says Morrison.


"There’s an aspirational quality to him—he’s an outlaw and he can buy anything. He’s a rich man who beats up poor people. It’s quite a bizarre mission to go out at night dressed as a bat and punch the hell out of junkies. And then he goes home and lives in this mansion. He has a new Batmobile every movie. He’s very plutonian in the sense that he’s wealthy and also in the sense that he’s sexually deviant."

"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. All these women fancy him and they all wear fetish clothes and jump around rooftops to get to him. He doesn’t care—he’s more interested in hanging out with the old guy and the kid.”

Morrison added that this was part of the appeal: "I think that's why people like it."

Batman’s next big screen outing The Dark Knight Rises is released this summer.

[Scholar]

:oldlol: I don't mind the idea of Batman being a gay superhero, but he should come out of the closet already. There's always been something weird about him & his relationship with Robin.

[kentatm]

?


fetish clothes and not holding down a long term relationship with a woman are automatically gay in this guys eyes?

methinks this writer is struggling for a way to come out.

[Rasheed1]

:oldlol: I love the explanation..

I used to watch the old Batman show with Adam West and Burt Ward... You did get the odd feeling that their was some gay activity between those two.. I think I was too young to even really know what being gay meant, but the show did give off the impression that there was something weirdly sexual or deviant about the show.. the way they all wore spandex and were always getting tied up by Catwoman (Eartha Kitt and the other Catwoman chick had what seemed like porno outfits back in those days)

it had this 60s psyhadelic vibe and there was some underlying sexual aggression in everyone except maybe Alfred and commisioner Gordon

[LJJ]

I think Yahtzee said it best.

"And how can you have dark grittiness when you're Batman, a man who swishes about in his underpants and a fabulous cape? This does feel like reaching for the low-hanging fruit--and Batman is nothing if not a low-hanging fruit--but I just love that bit in The Dark Knight when Gary Oldman and Aaron Eckhart are talking about bringing down the mob, and it could almost be a scene from The Departed, until Batman flounces in wearing pajamas and a bucket on his head and no one bats an eye."

Batman is totally gay.

[Jordan-esque]

:oldlol: I don't mind the idea of Batman being a gay superhero, but he should come out of the closet already. There's always been something weird about him & his relationship with Robin.
Batman loves Dick.

[MK2V1GP]

:facepalm

[Noah Rose]

You should read the comicbook boards, this has turned into a nightmare for them.

Even Christian Bale is getting the spotlight over there since he apparently starred in some homosexual gay film where he had a full sex scene with another man back before he ever became the Dark Knight.

http://balegasm.com/blog/2011/07/15/ewan-and-christian-sex-scene-better-clip/

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[L8k3r5]

:biggums:

[DCL]

sensitive homos.

[Joshumitsu]

This was touched in Watchmen with Hooded Justice and possibly, Rorschach.

The idea is that Batman gets turned on from beating up other men.

[Kobe 4 The Win]

Batman is bad-ass. Especially Michael Keaton. Christian Bale's Batman voice was laughable. Grant Morrison is likely queer and he wants to f**k Batman. He is accusing Batman of being gay to make himself feel better about his lifesytyle.

[Go Getter]

Seems like a stretch. To be gay you actually have to sleep with gay men. In this current Batman series Batman was in love with a woman.

The TV show was during an era where they didn't even have married couples sleeping in the same bed on film.

I mean, it's a comic book, not soft core porn...I don't want to go to the theaters to see Batman and have to sit through raunchy scenes with my kid.

[bdreason]

Just because Batman wears spandex and a cape doesn't mean he likes to suck ****.



Sounds more to me like this DC Writer has something he needs to get off his chest.

[rezznor]

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[LJJ]

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[DetroitPiston]

There's a reason why I just enjoy the works guys like Morrison, Moore, and Miller create.

There's also a reason why I don't listen to a lot of the things they say, especially Moore and Miller.


Batman is bad-ass. Especially Michael Keaton. Christian Bale's Batman voice was laughable. Grant Morrison is likely queer and he wants to f**k Batman. He is accusing Batman of being gay to make himself feel better about his lifesytyle.

Kevin Conroy has the best Batman voice IMO. He's been voicing him for 17 years and has always killed it. He was great in the Arkham games.

[RoTM]

Hes just messing with people. Think outside the box.


Just because Batman wears spandex and a cape doesn't mean he likes to suck ****.



Sounds more to me like this DC Writer has something he needs to get off his chest.

I think he isn't the type to hide that sort of thing.

[Dasher]

Gayness and Homosexuality go hand in hand, but can be separated. Batman's behavior does mirror that of closeted gay men of Hollywood's Golden Age.

This is a good write up on the brouhaha: http://t.co/bWnx0TY

It has some good points on Batman's "gayness".

[RoTM]

This was touched in Watchmen with Hooded Justice and possibly, Rorschach.

The idea is that Batman gets turned on from beating up other men.

He could just be like Tek Knight from The Boys.

[bagelred]

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[rodman91]

It's pathetic writer probably pulling "gay" card to get some attention. :lol (Comic book sales are so low in these days)

Also Batman has been in many relationships.(only women) He has son. He is straight. There are openly gay heroes in comic universes now. Not that big deal anymore.

Btw any sexual thing with Robin would make him pedophile, not gay.

[unbreakable]

i completely disagree. batman has pulled mad hos in his day.. catwoman, poison ivy..

how about nolan's bruce pimping the entire ballet on his boat.. or showing up to a cocktail party with 3 females.

[Go Getter]

Not to mention the millions of gay men who never acted upon their gay urges. A closet homosexual is still a homosexual.
Just because I have the urge to kill does that make me a killer?

[Go Getter]

Uh, no.
well I guess it's not that simple guys [I typed too quickly] that are attracted to men are gay as well?

[rezznor]

i completely disagree. batman has pulled mad hos in his day.. catwoman, poison ivy..

how about nolan's bruce pimping the entire ballet on his boat.. or showing up to a cocktail party with 3 females.
so did rock hudson. so did george michael. so did ricky martin.

[falc39]

This reminds me of the stupid hamlet homosexual plotlines people started talking about and analyzing. Before you know it, hamlet turns from a tragedy to some homoerotic fantasy... just ****ing dumb. what is wrong with our society

[Noah Rose]

People have finally stopped calling Batman a Pedophile right?


:coleman:

[CelticBaller]

It's pathetic writer probably pulling "gay" card to get some attention. :lol (Comic book sales are so low in these days)

Also Batman has been in many relationships.(only women) He has son. He is straight. There are openly gay heroes in comic universes now. Not that big deal anymore.

Btw any sexual thing with Robin would make him pedophile, not gay.
WTF? Having a sexual relationship with Robin makes him gay and a pedophile.

[rodman91]

WTF? Having a sexual relationship with Robin makes him gay and a pedophile.

Not really.Pedophiles doesn't considered as heterosexual or homosexual. So there are no gay pedophile or straight pedophile even some of them target only one gender.

[rodman91]

so did rock hudson. so did george michael. so did ricky martin.

But this is comic books. If he had secret life we would know it. Just like we know he is Batman but not many others.

[CelticBaller]

Not really.Pedophiles doesn't considered as heterosexual or homosexual. So there are no gay pedophile or straight pedophile even some of them target only one gender.
Who doesn't considers them that? the gay community?oh wow :lol

[rodman91]

Who doesn't considers them that? the gay community?oh wow :lol

:lol No, there are many scientific articles about pedophilia. I'm not expert but if science says that, i believe it.

[rodman91]

You're just mad because Batman gargles jizz.
If he is doing that there must be some explanation other than him being gay.Maybe for extra protein after hard battle.He even has shark repellent bat-spray.

[rezznor]

it has been implied that batman was gay/bi way before grant morrison suggested it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_Batman_franchise

Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a "homophobic nightmare,"[6] he views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crime fighting, concluding, "He'd be much healthier if he were gay."[7]


Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay Batman, Deviance, and Camp that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because "he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality,"


Burt Ward, who portrayed Robin in the 1960s television show, has also remarked upon this interpretation in his autobiography Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights; he writes that the relationship could be interpreted as a sexual one, with the show's double entendres and lavish camp also possibly offering ambiguous interpretation.[8]
In 2006, George Clooney said in an interview with Barbara Walters that in Batman & Robin he played Batman as gay. "I was in a rubber suit and I had rubber nipples. I could have played Batman straight, but I made him gay." Walters then asked, "George, is Batman gay?" To which he responded, "No, but I made him gay."[9]

[rodman91]

I can't wait for the dark knight rises btw. Why there isn't any new trailers? Avengers had full of ads and extra stuff.

[Noah Rose]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2147928/Is-Batman-gay-Major-DC-Comics-character-come-closet.html

Is Batman gay? Major DC Comics character to come out of the closet according to DC


DC Comics plans to reintroduce a character as gay in a future issue, it has been revealed.

Co-publisher Dan DiDio previously said that the company would not change the sexual orientation of an existing superhero and would bring in a new one altogether.

But at Kapow Comic Convention in London on Sunday, he revealed that an existing character - who was previously assumed to be straight - will become ‘one of our most prominent gay characters’, according to comic blog BleedingCool.com.

But Courtney Simmons, DC Entertainment’s senior vice president of publicity, told ABC News that it would be soon.

'One of the major iconic DC characters will reveal that he is gay in a storyline in June,' Simmons told the network.

June is lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history month.

Back in April, Batman writer Grant Morrison stated that the basis of Batman's character is gay.

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[rezznor]

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[Rockets(T-mac)]

That explanation makes no sense. He spends his nights hunting criminals instead of chasing the women that throw themselves at him, because he's been traumatically afffected by crime as a child, how does that mean he's gay? And what does spandex have to do with it? Is every super hero gay then?

[DonDadda59]

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:lebronamazed:

That is the creepiest f*cking picture I've ever seen in my life :oldlol:






:(

[rodman91]

Batman the Flaming *****t

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[MK2V1GP]

This is ****ing stupid. I'm sick of everything bein "politically correct." What a joke. Making Batman gay.

[Jailblazers7]

That explanation makes no sense. He spends his nights hunting criminals instead of chasing the women that throw themselves at him, because he's been traumatically afffected by crime as a child, how does that mean he's gay? And what does spandex have to do with it? Is every super hero gay then?

Probably.

[MK2V1GP]

Is every super hero gay then?

If they aren't already, they will be soon. Gay seems to be the new not gay. :hammerhead:

[KingBeasley08]

Nooooooooooo Batmans my fav...

i dont want him suckin another dudes nuts :(

[Rockets(T-mac)]

If they aren't already, they will be soon. Gay seems to be the new not gay. :hammerhead:Even TV shows it used to be the token black guy, now it's the token gay guy....:facepalm

[D-Wade316]

http://media.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/16388/superhero-babies.jpg

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:roll:

[Eat Like A Bosh]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2147928/Is-Batman-gay-Major-DC-Comics-character-come-closet.html

Is Batman gay? Major DC Comics character to come out of the closet according to DC



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:lebronamazed:
That....

:eek:

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

just stop.

he fukked talia al ghul.

[rezznor]

just stop.

he fukked talia al ghul.
he's a bisexual pedophile

[rodman91]

he's a bisexual pedophile
:oldlol:

[-p.tiddy-]

http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/05/22/gay-dc-comics-character?hpt=hp_bn15

^^^ this is on CNN today

I thought this thread was a joke

I can't believe DC is actually going to make Batman gay :facepalm

it's just a plot for attention to the comic...




Batman can't be gay, this is just fcked up...:facepalm

they are screwing their fans in the ass...pun intended

[-p.tiddy-]

From your link, it's not Batman
oh...good

I assumed it leaked as batman already and that's why this thread was made.

[-p.tiddy-]

it must be Flash

[-p.tiddy-]

Everyone in the Universe would be terrified.. how would you protect against it. :oldlol:
:oldlol:

ass raped in 1/1,000,000th of a second

[CelticBaller]

Everyone in the Universe would be terrified.. how would you protect against it. :oldlol:
:oldlol:

[Noah Rose]

http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/05/22/gay-dc-comics-character?hpt=hp_bn15

^^^ this is on CNN today

I thought this thread was a joke

I can't believe DC is actually going to make Batman gay :facepalm

it's just a plot for attention to the comic...
DC is just gay, their Superfriends are gay.

DC didn't have the guts to pull it out in the end (pun intended).

All these announcements of a "Major Character" lol! Major character my ass.

[SpecialQue]

[QUOTE]Batman

[kuniva_dAMiGhTy]

DC is just gay, their Superfriends are gay.

DC didn't have the guts to pull it out in the end (pun intended).

All these announcements of a "Major Character" lol! Major character my ass.

lol, Noah Rose and his alts (Doctor K/Jordan-esque) :mad: that TDK still wipes its ass with the Avengers.

[Timmy D for MVP]

I could absolutely see Batman working as a gay character. But he'd be someone like completely sexually repressed, his work coming first bar none which wrecks him from a relationship stand point.

Then it'd be interesting to see him sleep with all these woman trying to keep him playboy image as Bruce Wayne.

Could work.

[CelticBaller]

http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/05/22/gay-dc-comics-character?hpt=hp_bn15

^^^ this is on CNN today

I thought this thread was a joke

I can't believe DC is actually going to make Batman gay :facepalm

it's just a plot for attention to the comic...




Batman can't be gay, this is just fcked up...:facepalm

they are screwing their fans in the ass...pun intended
Green lantern is GAY

[Noah Rose]

http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/05/22/gay-dc-comics-character?hpt=hp_bn15

^^^ this is on CNN today

I thought this thread was a joke

I can't believe DC is actually going to make Batman gay :facepalm

it's just a plot for attention to the comic...

Batman can't be gay, this is just fcked up...:facepalm

they are screwing their fans in the ass...pun intended
Batman is not Gay.

He's really more Bi-sexual just like Christian Bale.

[BoogieWoogieMan]

On June 1, 2012, DC announced that Alan Scott would be reintroduced as a young homosexual man

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=39000

Not only are they making him gay, but they're reinventing the character. :facepalm

[magic chiongson]

meh, pretty weak. there are like a dozen green lanterns. and allan scott isnt even the most popular

[Dasher]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=39000

Not only are they making him gay, but they're reinventing the character. :facepalm
This is meh news. There are very few people alive who consider him "their" Green Lantern. John Stewart is my Green Lantern because I really became introduced to DC through The Justice League cartoon.

[Knicks101]

So, he's going to be banging dudes in the comics? I don't see why sexual orientation matters when it comes to superheroes.

[Noah Rose]

So, he's going to be banging dudes in the comics? I don't see why sexual orientation matters when it comes to superheroes.
It does though, imagine if Superman was gay. He'd be Supergay. :D

[jbot]

this is dumb. the writer was probably trying to gain some publicity for himself.

[Noah Rose]

Lol

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