“there seemed something very odd about him with those three little boy duckies, after all”
Aren’t those his nephews or something? I sure hope so, because he was their scout troop leader, so now I’m getting worried!
“Batman and his Boy Wonder
!!! couldn’t be more obvious, overt, imho”
Especially in the 60s “camp” tv version! It kind of amazes me, not just that I didn’t notice that when I watched the reruns as a kid, but that society of that time just wasn’t really “hip” to the subtext.
Same thing with the Village People in the 70s. They were pretty blatant, but most people didn’t “get it”. If they did, there’s no way “YMCA” would have been such a hit, with the social attitudes of the time.
yup.
they show those batman tv reruns nowadays and
they’re patently homosexual, imho
fun, yes
but homosexual, i think also yes.
there has been SO much discussion or speculation about Batman and his Boy Wonder that its now a full Wiki article with linkees to everywhere...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_Batman_franchise
But was TV's Batman "gay" or just playing with the idea of gayness? You can say Paul Lynde was really gay and nobody got it, but with a fictional character like Batman (or Donald Duck) it's harder to make something like that stick.
Same thing with the Village People in the 70s. They were pretty blatant, but most people didn’t “get it”. If they did, there’s no way “YMCA” would have been such a hit, with the social attitudes of the time.
Really? Everybody got it. Okay, maybe not everybody. Parents and oldsters might have learned the song and the dance without being in on the joke, but kids knew the Village People were supposed to be homosexual, though they may not have had much idea of what homosexuals were or whether they really existed. The irony is that some of the group actually weren't gay. They just answered a casting call and got hired.