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Perhaps it’s because comics are still considered juvenile reading matter in some quarters that the Daily Mail feels the need to ponder whether Batman is gay, but it’s like it’s never heard of Frederic Wertham, the psychologist whose 1950s book Seduction of the Innocent prompted Nazi-style comic burnings by petrified parents after its observations along the line of: “Only someone ignorant of the fundamentals of psychiatry and of the psychopathology of sex can fail to realise a subtle atmosphere of homoeroticism which pervades the adventures of the mature Batman and his young friend Robin.Gay superheroes: Holy cow! Why is everyone in a hurry to out Batman?
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