Originally Posted by
Captain Nostalgia
That has been the running comedic narrative for the last couple of decades, though alas, I grew up in a less politically correct time.
They would never make Bruce Wayne gay, it's too risky profit wise. It could produce a potential backlash as a result of the change in sexual orientation being perceived as deliberately political.
Thus the backlash wouldn't be because people are upset that he is gay,
(I don't think people care too much about sexual orientation in the modern age) it would because....
fans would be upset that continuity has been destroyed to have woke politics imposed on them. They would see it as soley as a deliberate political act entering into their escapism, and that would PO them off.