Batman: Buttman More Like

There’s always been something more than a little camp* about a superhero who sports tights and rubber nipples and enjoys the company of his Boy Wonder sidekick.
Now Batman has been “outed” as an ageing homosexual who picks up young men for one-night stands and sits next to Sir Elton John at New York charity dinners – at least for the purposes of a new novel.

The whispers about Gotham City’s masked crime-fighter are confirmed in Erotic Lives of the Superheroes, which depicts Batman and Robin as a bickering gay couple whose sex life has gone flat.
Written by the Italian author Marco Mancassola, the novel imagines the erotic obsessions of Superman, Mister Fantastic and Mystique as their heroic abilities are dulled by the ageing process. Acclaimed upon its publication in Italy, the book, which centres on a murder mystery, arrives in the UK this week...

The Independent.
Erm, I think Batman and Robin have been "outed" about a zillion times before - it's even got a Wikipedia page.
Here's the Mail's take - sadly no mad readers' comments at the time of typing.
Might add 'gay men and comic books' to my list of gay stories only the straight press think are interesting.

* I'm not sure the writer knows what "camp" means - was he scared of saying Batman had always seemed more than a little gay? But then that's The Independent for you...