Is nightwing gay
It was never explicitly stated, but a message in the game between Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon would suggest that Nightwing is bisexual, as opposed to the comic book version that’s straight.
Dick Grayson is one of the longest-tenured characters in DC Comics. With a huge influx of LGBTQ representation in comics, fans wonder — is Nightwing gay, bisexual, or straight in the comics? Dick Grayson, aka Nightwing, was never anything but heterosexual in the comics.
Academic study of the Batman franchise has involved gay interpretations since at least , when psychiatrist Fredric Wertham asserted in his book Seduction of the Innocent that "Batman stories are psychologically homosexual".
DC comics artists have a long history of giving the former boy wonder a big wagon, and though maybe not as faithfully, the more recent video games Dick has appeared in have tried to do the same. But what about Gotham Knights? I scrolled through trailer footage from both Gotham Knights and Arkham City to find out.
It was never explicitly stated, but a message in the game between Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon would suggest that Nightwing is bisexual, as opposed to the comic book version that’s straight.
I read comic books when I was a kid, and around the age of eight or so moved on from Archie to DC Comics and their pantheon of super-heroes. I did watch the Batman television show when it aired when I was even younger; it was a lot of fun to watch—silly and campy even though I was too young to even slightly understand what camp was or have any idea that it was even a thing; I just knew I liked it. I never followed writers or artists, I followed the characters—but have always had an appreciation for the art, both in story, drawing, and colorization—that make the books what they are.
Academic study of the Batman franchise has involved gay interpretations since at least , when psychiatrist Fredric Wertham asserted in his book Seduction of the Innocent that "Batman stories are psychologically homosexual".
Pride is a tricky time for a lot of bisexual people. Many have spent a lifetime between two worlds. Not hetero enough to fit in with the straights while at the same time not feeling like we have the right to exist visibly in queer spaces.