sometimes they show him with girls, sometimes he never seems to be going out with girls. Contents 1 Golden and Silver Age Batman 2 Views within the industry 2.1 1960s TV series 2.2 Joel Schumachers films 2.3 Animation 3 Interpretations in later years parody and fandom 4 LGBT characters in the Batman franchise 4. But as I said, ultimately he's not gay because he has no sex life, really. Several characters in the Modern Age Batman comic books are expressly gay, lesbian, or bisexual. And basically I said what I said in the book, that you can easily dial up the black-leather-fetishistic-night-dwelling aspects of Batman, and the masculinity of Batman, and get a pretty good gay Batman. But Playboy had it in as the most sensationalised version, they didn't take off the bit at the end… Because it was all from the book, it was from an interview I did last year for Supergods. "But the thing is, it was the opposite of what I said. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. He's very plutonian in the sense that he's wealthy and also in the sense that he's sexually deviant. A couple of years ago, Grant Morrison told Playboy,
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