Blistering barnacles!!

Was Tintin gay - or even worse, a girl??  So claims a French philosopher in a sensational essay.  The author Hergé is of course long dead and therefore unavailable for comment, but it is said that he and his close friends were in on the joke and left many clues in the books which support the claim.  He was also responsible for the illustrations in the books, where certainly Tintin is often portrayed as somewhat androgynous.  Of course, you could ignore the whole business and simply enjoy the books on their undoubted merits.