The Gay Batman and the Gay Parallel Universe

Image licensed under Creative Commons by Alex Castella

Sometimes, our senior editor gets a little "silly" and sends us off on a strange tangent like thinking about Gay Batman in a Gay Parallel Universe and his Gay Batcave.  Sigh...you guessed it, this is one of our writing assignments for the day.  (And, if we don't sell enough books today, we don't get paid).


So, we made some feeble attempts to find our Gay Batman on the internet.  When we 'google I'm feeling lucky' Gay Batman we found...you guessed it...Batman (the Wikipedia link)...  We did however find a Twitter account with the TwitName @gaybatman.  But, we didn't come away with much information.  We should mention that one of our tweeps (http://twitter.com/EasyGayLife) gave us permission to mention his twitname and that he employs a Batman & Robin avatar on his tweets!

Does the Gay Batman call the Batphone the Gayphone?  Does he use the Gayphone to take calls from the Gay Commissioner Gordon?  Is Superman gay in the Gay Parallel Universe...or is he just Superman?  And what about Wonder Woman...hmmm...Aquaman and the Green Arrow would also be likely candidates...  This is addressed as a serious topic in the Wikipedia pages LGBT Themes in American Mainstream Comics (Wikipedia link) and Homosexuality in the Batman Franchise (Wikipedia link).

But, isn't the "real" Batman already gay?  This is explored in the Wiki pages linked above.  Doesn't this disprove that parallel universes are, therefore, impossible?  Or, at least, that the Gay Parallel Universe populated by Gay Superheroes is impossible?

We guess that we are also exploring themes of our childhood.  We used to collect Batman comics rabidly as children (sigh...however, our sainted mother secretly discarded them all secretly...what a tragic loss...).  Does this imply that we too, are gay?  Don't think so, though, politically speaking, we support gay rights including gay marriage ('garriage')...  Not so much to be hip as to support civil rights.  We are very big on civil rights.  But, with no hope of a Gay Parallel Universe is there any hope for civil rights?  We hope so, we hope so.

We used to watch the original Batman TV series with campy fascination.  We still howl with laughter whenever Adam West does a voiceover on Family Guy.

So, where is Gay Batman?  It seems we need him now more than ever?  We would love to have seen Gay Batman show up at the recent national prayer breakfast in his gay bat regalia.  We would have loved to have seen Gay Batman stand up and applaud and whistle when Obama decried Ugandan Anti-Gay Laws.  (Where were The Yes Men, by the way?...)  Of course, we would have loved to have seen Gay Batman there tweeting about gayporn on his gay BatiPhone during the the invocation (What Could Be Worse?).  We would have gone...bats.

Gay Batman save us!

FOM: SAFE SCHOOL PROPOSAL: Two lawmakers want to exclude gay and lesbien students,  The Gay Batcave / The Gaycave, The Yes Men Website (link), Homosexuality in the Batman Franchise (Wikipedia link), LGBT Themes in American Mainstream Comics (Wikipedia link) and Batman (Wikipedia link)

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Revised/Updated: Friday, February 5, 2010; Sunday, February 7, 2010; Monday, February 8, 2010.