Gay batman & robin

The feature film Batman Forever, and especially its sequel Batman & Robin, both helmed by the openly gay director Joel Schumacher, have been interpreted as having homoerotic overtones. The podcast that I co-host, The , will be looking at Batman and Robin this weekend. It is a fun discussion, well worth a listen, and I hope you enjoy. However, I had some thoughts that I wanted to get down before specifically about the film.

Tim Drake is the Robin who isn’t really sure how to be Robin anymore — but in this week’s Batman: Urban Legends, he’s figured at least one thing out. A nice boy asked him out on a date, and Tim. While superhero movies are everywhere thanks to the various cinematic universes in play, there was a time when they were big risks for the studio. Given how popular the Caped Crusader is, fans spent years watching Batman movies in order , including the franchise that ran through the '90s which is streaming with a Max subscription. But we need to talk about the queerness of this comic book flick.

Gay subtext managed to insinuate itself into the Dynamic Duo’s dyad from the very start. Freely adapted from The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon, out now from. Poet Chris Tse looks into the hidden and not-so-hidden subtexts of comic books, and shares the role superheroes — particularly Catwoman in Batman Returns — played in his own journey. When I was a young boy, my pulse quickened every time I came across a naked male torso in a magazine, on greeting cards in the mall gift shop, or on TV. Sometimes, it felt safe to marvel at these displays of the male physique because it was a sports game or a TV show I was watching with my family or friends.

Robin has come out as bisexual in the latest Batman comic. Tim Drake – a.k.a. the third Robin – realized he’s bi in the newly released issue Batman: Urban Legends #6. This wonderful article is not about that. This is about things in the Batman and Robin relationship that everyone takes for granted, but are actually exceptionally strange, when you stop and think about them. If anything, the messiness of the Batman and Robin relationship makes it more fascinating, from a storytelling standpoint, because it muddles with the boring portrayal of Batman as perfect.

The feature film Batman Forever, and especially its sequel Batman & Robin, both helmed by the openly gay director Joel Schumacher, have been interpreted as having homoerotic overtones. And bat-nipples! After the dawn of the medium, for decades viewers had to attune themselves to coding and suggestion in order to glean queerness from ostensibly straight works. Sussing out is part of the fun, and until fairly recently, it was necessary for queers thirsty for representation.

Tim Drake is the Robin who isn’t really sure how to be Robin anymore — but in this week’s Batman: Urban Legends, he’s figured at least one thing out. A nice boy asked him out on a date, and Tim. Bob Kane never drew the dynamic duo in an intentionally compromising position, but were the two having sex in the gutters between the panels? It requires the reader to fill in the narrative gap. If you read sex in that space, then sex it is.

Gay subtext managed to insinuate itself into the Dynamic Duo’s dyad from the very start. Freely adapted from The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon, out now from. .

Robin has come out as bisexual in the latest Batman comic. Tim Drake – a.k.a. the third Robin – realized he’s bi in the newly released issue Batman: Urban Legends #6. .