Is Rob (Tim Drake) Gay or Bisexual? - The Comic Book Dispatch
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IS ROB (TIM DRAKE) GAY OR BISEXUAL?
More than 80 years sce he was first troduced to rears, and after s of homoerotic subtext wh his pann Batman, ics’ most tsty sikick Rob has nonilly e out as a cliffhanger endg to DC’s latt issue of Batman: Urban Legends, the current eratn of the Boy Wonr, Tim Drake, is shown acceptg a date vatn om his iend Bernard, havg jt rcued him om a villa while disguise as Rob. Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman.
The list of superhero accintally or liberately d as queer who have never nonilly been brought out of the closet bee of homophobia is long and prsg. But wa, I n hear the ments already: So now Tim is jt The Rob Who Is Gay?
Tim Drake’s story speaks to what advot for diversy n fet and homophob would rather ignore: There are legimate reasons to give a long-standg straight character a g-out story beyond “more diversy is more. However, he would not be the first stance of queerns to be found the Batman their relatnship was no way sexual, many had, for both posive and negative nnotatns, scribed Batman and Rob as gay. This was ma pecially evint the 1940s when, his ntroversial 1954 book Sctn of the Innocent, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham had specifilly poted to Batman and Rob as beg gay, though this was entirely unte wh the ntext of the story.