Is the batman gay

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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. In a movie that looks like it was attacked by a blacklight with the runs, the specific way Batman has just a little more emotional power than his partner and is just a little older and wiser counts as nuance.

As a bisexual woman, I fully expected to walk out of my screening of The Batman having experienced a fair amount of what the kids on TikTok call bi panic. After all, the latest venture in Gotham City stars two of the hottest actors in the business, Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz , and easily hosted the sexiest press tour of Unfortunately, I left the theater three hours later feeling what would more accurately be described as bi exhaustion. This is not because the film, in theaters now, wasn't sexy—though, to be honest, I'm still waiting for a Batman movie that truly fucks—but because of a recent interview with Kravitz that set my expectations for the film a bit too high.

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. As we reported last week, this was the claim made by Batman, Incorporated writer Grant Morrison in an interview with Playboy where he offers his insights into the psychology of superheroes.