Is Rob (Tim Drake) Gay or Bisexual? - The Comic Book Dispatch
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IS ROB (TIM DRAKE) GAY OR BISEXUAL?
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. However, DC Comics was so worried that Batman was seen as beg gay that 1956, they created an entirely new character, Batwoman, to serve as a love tert, though she was retroactively removed om ntuy the 2006, the character was retroduced, this time as Kate Kane, Batman's maternal who is both openly lbian and is Jewish.
For s, Batman and Rob as a ncept have been the subject of hateful jok and homophobic nuendo. He stated their relatnship, which was always pated as paternal, was “a wish dream of two homosexuals livg together.
DC survived the ics purge, but they ma chang to appease the homophobia of suburban Amerin parents. But gay jok and nuendo persisted about Rob, so DC turns Dick Grayson to a ladi’ man on the level of Bce Wayne. In a sense, by makg Tim Drake bisexual, ’s an versn of the homophobic panic that forced DC to make the origal Rob “extra straight” as a rponse.