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The new diversity of superheroes – from Gotham City to Bollywood

That stalwart of superhero pulp, America's DC Comics, sent tongues a'wagging when they recently ressurected a long dead character. But the fuss wasn't about rising from the dead. It was about the fact that Kate Kane, aka, Batwoman, had transformed from Batman’s love interest to lesbian socialite.

25 Aug 2006

Lian Low

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That stalwart of superhero pulp, America’s DC Comics, sent tongues a’wagging when they recently ressurected a long dead character. But the fuss wasn’t about rising from the dead. It was about the fact that Kate Kane, aka, Batwoman, had transformed from Batman’s love interest to lesbian socialite.

Ms Kane was first introduced in 1956 as a companion to the infamous Dark Knight, but she was killed off in 1979. So what thinking was behind her rebirth as a thoroughly modern maven?

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Lian Low

About the Author

Lian’s most recent work was published in the Growing Up Asian in Australia anthology. She’s written performance poetry pieces, plays, freelanced as a journalist and was completing RMIT TAFE’s Professional Screenwriting course before starting full time work at Art Hub Australia as one half of Arts Hub’s trusty Jobs Team.