Batwoman is gay!
Sweet costume!
There's a new Batwoman in town and it seems she goes for girls! This juicy piece of news has been stirring up the comics world- heck, even the mainstream media's gotten ahold of the story! Pretty interesting- now a cynical observer would say that DC Comics is just doing this to get publicity and for the opportunity to put loads of cheesecake girl-on-girl smooching scenes in the comic. However, she isn't the first major gay character in Batman's world (no bad Robin jokes, please :P)- the very best story in the excellent and sadly-cancelled series Gotham Central had Detective Renee Montoya outed as a lesbian. The mature and nuanced handling of that story makes me think that DC could actually make this new Batwoman's sexuality more than just a cheap novelty. I'll be interested to see where they go with this.
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