He even confessed his feelings for Batman and showed an active interest in other men. She goes on to explain The Joker has an 80-year history but for more than half of it, he was openly gay. That is why it’s so important to me and other queer readers to return his homosexuality,’ she said. ‘This opinion was shared by other comic books authors and artists for decades. In a petition to DC writer Geoff Johns, Elena Shestakova wrote: ‘The Joker was and always had been homosexual.’ The Joker has a long history of homosexuality but writers suppressed it in the 90s, according to some fan theories. DC Comics fans are calling for writers of the Batman series to make The Joker gay… again.
