Batman is trying to be gay

As far as "all the women," though, most of them he's quite open in comics about never intending to sleep with. They're beards. Or, too often, they're treated as nuisances. He has no time for "girls," because he has "boys" to play dress up with and play fun boy games with.

A Brief History of Dick

The lens through which one must look into the Batverse is naturally shaded by the metaphorical Batbrella of its titular character. Both are ultimately plagued by inertia because each must hold to maintain the other. Batman can never stop being Batman because of the unstoppable regenerative force of the criminal front, either giving rise to new characters, or simply returning after escaping captivity.

When Batman was gay

His writings were respected enough to help form part of the legal strategy for Brown v. Board of Education. Estes Kefauver and his Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, where Wertham repeated many of his central claims. Worse still, both exhibited damning psychological characteristics: proclivities for costumes, dressing up, and fantasy play; secretive behavior and double-lives; little interest in women; and, most damning of all, neurotic compulsions resulting in their violent vigilantism.

The Saint Anselm Crier

More than 70 years after his debut, Batman has emerged as the best known patient of Dr. Wertham's New York clinic for sexually maladjusted individuals, and also its most successful failure. Batman will always have his gayness, however straight they write him. Andrew Wheeler Published: April 30, Categories: Culture , DC , Opinion.