Despite having been (or currently being) in relationships with men in the comics, the affectionate bonds the Batgirls have with each other (particularly between Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown) or with other girls has led to plenty of Ho Yay between them.
Bette Kane
- In Young Justice #21, an important line that retcons Bette's history as Batgirl back into canon also sounds like she's had a sexual fling with Barbara before whilst teaming up with Cass.Bette (to Cass): Batgirl, huh? Been there, done that.
- In Titans Secret Files & Origins #1, the way Lilith Clay comes to check up on Bette as she's waiting for the phone to ring looks a lot like they're sleeping together in the same apartment.
Barbara Gordon
- There has been a bit of Ho Yay between Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) and Batgirl (Barbara and Stephanie Brown) throughout the years:
- In Superman Family #171 Barbara saves Kara -who has temporarily lost her powers- from drowning. First thing she attempts? Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
◊. - During their third team-up in Detective Comics #508-510, Barbara falls off a building... and Supergirl shows up out of nowhere and catches her. Apparently she just happened to be in the neighborhood.◊ And apparently she needed to carry her in her arms bridal style for some reason.
- Harley Quinn thinks Supergirl and Barbara Gordon are much too obvious◊:Harley: Oh, Ivy can't hurt me. She gave me a special shot once so we can play and I won't get sick at all.
Batgirl: You mean you two...?
Harley: What?
Batgirl: You and Ivy are... well... *crosses her index and middle fingers in that "I'm implying you're in a relationship" gesture* friends...
Harley: Yeah...?
Batgirl: Y'know... friends... like...
Harley: Like what everybody says about you and Supergirl?
Batgirl: What?! Who says...? Forget it! Forget it! - Apparently, Supergirl watches those types of college movies. You know, the ones with pillow fights and Slumber Parties, and she is just dying to reenact them with Stephanie. Later, after Dracula appears, Supergirl rips off her top to reveal her costume beneath it.Supergirl: Aren't you gonna...you know...
Batgirl: Not unless you wanna see my bra.
Supergirl: Does it have a bat on it?
- In Superman Family #171 Barbara saves Kara -who has temporarily lost her powers- from drowning. First thing she attempts? Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
- In Batgirl (2009), when one of Barbara Gordon's male students sends a text message to Jen, the girl siting next to him in class, commenting that Barbara is hot, Jen clutches her phone to her chest and says "Yeah, she is."
- In that same book, after Wendy Harris begins to assist Oracle and Batgirl as Proxy, she begins to hallucinate seeing her dead brother Marvin, who tries to coach her through her physical and mental recuperation. Both Wendy and "Marvin" are pretty clear that this is a manifestation of Wendy's subconcious, not some sort of ghost or hologram, so when Marvin comments on how hot Barbara is Wendy can not help but wonder at what that says about herself and her mind.
- After Oracle formed the Girl Power team Birds of Prey, she and Black Canary built up something that can only be called a long-distance lesbian relationship. At one point when Oracle was dating Nightwing, he was showering at her place, and Black Canary assumed it was her showering. So, of course, she saw no problem at all with barging in on her.
- It helps that the definitive writer of the series, Gail Simone, encourages fans to write femme-Slash Fic about them.
- It wasn't just Gail Simone who did it. Chuck Dixon, the series' original writer, could pack quite a bit of this trope into the two characters even before they met face to face. The letter columns were filled with fan theories that this was Canary rebounding after her relationship with Green Arrow. Printing images like this◊ (when they actually met for the first time) helped.
- It wasn't just between Oracle and Canary: when Spy Smasher, a.k.a. Katarina Armstrong, showed up as an antagonist to the Birds, it turned out that she and Barbara had history. It does help explain the bitterness between Oracle and Spy Smasher in the present if they were once lovers who went through a bad breakup.
- As a callback to their considerable Les Yay in Birds of Prey, in issue 7 Barbara visits Black Canary in the middle of the night... to spar. As in, fight hand to hand. Lampshaded by Simone:Just because Babs snuck into Dinah's bed at night for some action doesn't mean…. Wait. I might have phrased that wrong.
Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown
- Cassandra and Stephanie have gotten a fair share of this in Future State. Not only does Cass seem very angry and heartbroken that Steph has seemingly turned her back on the Bat, but they end the series embracing on a rooftop, looking at the sunrise.Cassandra: "I was hurting after we decided to... take a break from it all, but so were you. I should have seen it for what it was."
- A lot of their scenes together in Batgirls (2021) have them being very affectionate with each other to the point of being a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship. Stephanie, specifically, constantly gushes about how amazing Cassandra is, and issue 2 even has her calling her "babe", which the same issue showed to be an Affectionate Nickname Barbara uses for Dick.
- The fourth issue of the series is also full of this, with Cassandra trying to free Stephanie from the main villain's mind control by saying she needs her, culminating with a rather suggestive hug◊ between the two girls.
- Issue 7 features an Imagine Spot from Cass of her and Steph going undercover as a young couple at the Iceberg Lounge, with Cass dressed in a suit.
- In the 14th issue Stephanie's letter to Cassandra talks fondly of their friendship and ends with her saying "I love you".
- In the 17th issue Steph and Cass dance very close together, and Steph answers a question by retorting "Does Catwoman look good in latex?"
- In Convergence: Batgirl, Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain are shown to be living together. Stephanie also refers to Cassandra as "honey", paying a little fanservice to the popular ship.
