Exposed: The (Not So) Secret Gay Life of Batman & Robin (2012, tv show)

[SunnyKayak]

There was a lot innuendo gay subtext in the comic of Batman & Robin.
When the TV show Batman was put on the air, they made up the character of Aunt Harriet so it would not look like there were two gay men living alone. Instead it looked like two gay men living with their elderly aunt!


Here a link to 12 images of Batman & Robin bromance. Gay.net - Exposed: The (Not So) Secret Gay Life of Batman & Robin

[PITTSTON2SARASOTA]

Originally Posted by SunnyKayak

There was a lot innuendo gay subtext in the comic of Batman & Robin.
When the TV show Batman was put on the air, they made up the character of Aunt Harriet so it would not look like there were two gay men living alone. Instead it looked like two gay men living with their elderly aunt!


Here a link to 12 images of Batman & Robin bromance. Gay.net - Exposed: The (Not So) Secret Gay Life of Batman & Robin

That Green Lantern as well.....ROFL.....

[SunnyKayak]

Too Funny The things that blew right over when I was younger, or was these seeds planted for me to realize later

The obvious it two close Super Hero friends jumping around in Lycra with Speedos on top.

[turkeytrot]

HOLY HINIE DIVING!!
Batman didn't call him the boy wonder for nothin'!

[banjomike]

Meh.
Most of the classics- Batman, Superman, etc. came from a time when the hero had a sidekick. As often as not, the sidekick was either younger or a comic foil. This convention was so common it was an expected cliché in movies, books, radio and TV shows as much as in comics.
The gay connection is just a modern take on an old convention. Batman had Robin, because a young boy could not hope to ever become The Batman, but he could see himself as the sidekick. Robin did all the stuff kids did in the old comic books; he asked the questions, got to drive the Bat car when the Big Guy wasn't at the wheel, got to hold the end of the Bat rope, etc. The creation of Batgirl let girls in on the action.

Dick Tracy had several kid sidekicks of both sexes. Superman had Jimmy Olsen. Aqua Man had Aqua Lad. Red Ryder had Little Beaver. The only 50/50 relationship I can think of in the comics was the Lone Ranger and Tonto, and if anything, The Ranger was Tonto's sidekick as much as the other way around.

Even Bobby Benson, the the central character of the radio show the B Bar B Riders, was a sidekick to the B Bar B ranch's top hand. And Bobby was the only kid in a cast of men; what associations would be made these days to that? In the TV show Rin Tin Tin, a dog, had Timmy, a kid sidekick! Sky King had a boy and a girl for sidekicks.

Gay make gay associations that straight people don't. In this cynical sex-obsessed age, all this topic is just evidence of how far we have gone away from our former, more innocent, days.