“VERY” says DC writer Grant Morrison, the man who helped define the character. In an interview with Playboy, he confirms what we’ve pretty much known all along: That Bats is, indeed, VERY, VERY gay. “He’s very plutonian in the sense that he’s wealthy and also in the sense that he’s sexually deviant. Gayness is built into Batman. I’m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There’s just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he’s intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay. I think that’s why people like it. All these women fancy him and they all wear fetish clothes and jump around rooftops to get to him. He doesn’t care—he’s more interested in hanging out with the old guy and the kid.” (via Bleeding Cool)