Is Batman Gay: A 2020 Update. The late director Joel Schumacher who helmed George Clooney’s Batman movie has weighed in, during an interview with Vulture Magazine, on the issue of the Caped Superhero and his sidekick Robin being friends of Dorothy.
First, the director denies that he made Batman and Robin LGBT characters. Secondly, he states that there’s always been a gay subtext in the Dark Knight’s story particularly with regards to his relationship with Robin.
From his Vulture interview: “This all started way before me. Long before I came along, someone wrote a whole thing about what the real message of fairy tales and children’s stories are. Snow White was all about having bad stepmothers. And Batman and Robin are two homosexual men. There’s always been this thing about Batman and Robin being gay.”