Perhaps this should not be a surprise. In any case, I won't be buying anything from DC Comics, so I don't have to worry what they do to their "universe?.
Why? Why shouldn't it be a surprise?
Haven't you ever had a close friend you haven't tried to play 'hide the salami' with?
Instead, it is the inevitable denigration of friendship to at least arm's length or be branded faggots.
It is an attack on the ability of men to be brothers, with no sick substitute for copulation involved.