The entry point to superhero and anti-hero movies and TV shows is straight and narrow, in the most literal sense. At least that's what Reddit, much of the fandom and even a number of directors and producers would seemingly have you believe. But one of the key pleasures of being part of the LGBTQ+ community is that, with just a little effort of imagination, almost anything can be made gay as hell, if it pleases you so. And we're not the only ones with this superpower. Republicans do it all the time.
In the pre-vax COVID days, when the industry and everyone involved with it was at a standstill, Vera Drew — a Los Angeles based director, writer, editor and actor who worked on Tim and Eric’s "Beef House” and was nominated for an Emmy as lead editor on Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America?”— decided to use her newly gained expanse of free time queering-up a re-edit of Todd Phillips' "Joker." This was done just for fun after reading a quote from the director in a Vanity Fair article, in which he said "something really stupid," as she correctly describes it.
