Luke tells her it’s actually a good thing that people think Batwoman is straight it puts a little distance between her and her secret identity.
I did not sit through six seasons of Glee to have my gayness called into question! A woman does not get kicked out of the most prestigious military academy in the country for smooching her girlfriend, move to the frozen tundra to krav maga away her heartbreak, choose that hairstyle and wear a leather coat in all weather and park her motorcycle every place she goes so she can lean on it to have people assume she’s heterosexual, okay? Kate isn’t bothered by the fact that the tabloids are spreading rumors about her personal life she’s furious that people are clocking Batwoman as straight and shipping her with a man. Someone snaps a photo of them and gossip column tongues start wagging.
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It starts when Kate saves a runaway train full of Gotham citizens and is then tackled to safety, off the tracks, by a Gotham police officer named Slam (a.k.a - and not affectionately - “Captain America”). Last night, they introduced a whole other fully-realized queer character who flipped the psycho lesbian trope on its head, and was the catalyst for a coming out storyline that’s never been done before, not even in comic books.
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It is so rare here in 2020, with 12 years of professional lesbian TV writing behind me, to be repeatedly surprised in a good way by a television show - but Batwoman just keeps stunning me with absolute delight, including multiple times during last night’s aptly titled episode, “How Queer Everything Is Today!” I’ve written about it before, but it bears repeating that Batwoman‘s writers have consistently hurdled played out clichés (emotionally unavailable masculine-of-center lesbian playboi), side-stepped damaging tropes (the cheating/confused bisexual), and given Kate Kane not one, not two, but three female love interests (past and present) in only ten episodes. The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All Time.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.