National Public Radio is reporting that when Batgirl (Batwoman?) comes back in the comics, she will be a lesbian.
Allow me to be the first to say I welcome this development. There are not nearly enough slim, young, firm, nubile, redheaded motorcycle-riding lesbian role models in today’s comic books.
Besides, it may encourage Batman and Robin to address certain issues in their life together.
Batman isn’t homosexual. If anything, he’s asexual.
This isn’t Batgirl (the one you may be thinking of from the 1960s TV show). That Batgirl was crippled by the Joker and is now the wheelchair-bound genius information broker Oracle.
This is a totally new Batwoman, a different character.
This is going to make reruns so much more interesting. IIRC, Batgirl always got tied up during those episodes…
I’ll be in my bunk.
It’s Batwoman. There will be no Batgirl for a while (Barbara’s still Oracle, Cassie’s…well, there’s a lot of complaints about Cassie, and Bette’s still Flamebird.).
I called this months ago, when a couple of the hints from the Wizard article about 52 ‘clicked’. (A new, queer character was going to be introduced (and given their own title), one of Montoya’s girlfriends was going to ‘make her mark on the DCU’, and the reference to the new Batwoman.) I wasn’t sure that she was going to be Kathy (but I figured it was the best bet), but I was sure she was going to be a lesbian and involved with Montoya at some point.
Well…sort of. It’s a new version of Kathy Kane, the original Batwoman.
“Holy sexual frustration, Batman!”
Could you spoiler-box for me? I have a friend who is a HUGE Cassie fanatic, and I need to know what to be prepared for! 
(Me, I stopped after Infinity Crisis. Whole thing just left a bad ‘reboot for no real reason other than sales’ taste in my mouth.)
If she gets as (relatively) little action as Batman gets, the fact that she’s a lesbian won’t be that big a deal.
Sorry for the hijack. What happened to Cassie?? (I’ve been trying to keep up with the Bat-family, really I have. read countdown, read OMAC, couldn’t muster up the energy for the other countdown miniserieses, read IC, reading Batman, Nightwing, and 52… somehow Cassie hasn’t been brought up. or I missed it.)
In the last issue of Robin, it was revealed that
After being killed, dropped in the Lazarus pit, killing Shiva, and discovering she wasn’t the only child David Cain had been training/abusing, she snapped. She killed her ‘sister’, Lynx and Nyssa al Ghul, and is now head of the League of Assassins - basically having decided most of her life was a lie, and thus taken David Cain’s lessons to heart. She also framed Robin for ‘her’ (actually Lynx’s) murder in an attempt to break him, and bring him over to her side.
To the Batcave!
I’ve always suspected that Catwoman is bi-curious. Plus she just can’t help but stalk furry little things.
Damn! That’s alotta angst!
I think your gaydar is broken
yikes… poor Cassie… Hopefully she’ll “get better” soon.
Nah, mine’s working fine…your’s is jammed is all. Robin and Alfred are, no question about it, gayer than an explosion in a confetti factory. Batsy, though, seems to want nothing but his vigilante activities.
The only thing thast concerns me is the DC post-Infinite Crisis exposion of ‘diverse’ characters. We’ve got a lesbian Batwoman, a Latino Blue Beetle, a Black Spectre, and an Asian Atom. The timing, as well as the fact that these are new incarnations of pre-existing characters, seems suspect.
Am I the only person who recalls the fracas Marvel went through when they first revealed Northstar was gay?
Of course, later they retconned him so that he wasn’t getting ill from AIDS, but was simply a “fairy” who was away from fairyland for too long… :rolleyes:
The only thing suspect is that it’s taken them so goddamn long. They’re only making up for lost time. More power to them, I say.
Interesting that Batwoman, the most obscure character and the only one of the above without her own title (you forgot Firestorm, the Manhattan Guardian, Mister Miracle, and Scandal and Knockout of the Secret Six), but is getting the most attention by far. Having the Bat connection counts for a lot, I guess.
Alfred and the Boy Wonder? Thank you for that mental image. I think I will go scrub my frontal cortex.