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Stephen Colbert, Augt 11, 2003 The Ambiguoly Gay Duo was a rtoon edy short that gaed notoriety on the televisn show, Saturday Night Live -created by Stephen Colbert and Robert Smigel. Produced by Robert Smigel's productn pany, TV Funhoe, the show followed the adventur...

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BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY

Superman has e out as bisexual followg Batman's Rob revealg he's bi and months after a versn of Marvel's Capta Ameri said he is gay * gay batman and robin snl *

Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman.”. Superman has e out as bisexual followg Batman's Rob revealg he's bi and months after a versn of Marvel's Capta Ameri said he is gaySuperman reveals he is bisexual after superhero Rob and Capta Ameri e outSuperman has e out as bisexual. ” This follows DC's latt Rob, Tim Drake, also g out as bisexual Batman: Urban Legends and a few months after a versn of Marvel's Capta Ameri me out as gay.

The new Capta Ameri is gay. My dghter [the TV seri] Supergirl, where I played the father, was gay.

Brave would be havg him fightg for the rights of gay people Iran where they’ll throw you off a buildg for the offense of beg gay… "Or fightg for the rights of women to attend school and have the abily to work and live and boys not to be raped by men unr the new warm and fuzzy Taliban — that would be brave. Unpackg the gay subtext of Rob, the Boy Wonr.

THE AMBIGUOLY GAY DUO

Created 1998, Apollo and Midnighter were among the first married gay upl superhero ics — and they were totally parodi of Batman and Superman. Now, thanks to DC Comics ntuy, the four characters fally met face to face. * gay batman and robin snl *

Gay subtext managed to suate self to the Dynamic Duo’s dyad om the very start. Let’s get one thg absolutely clear: Rob isn’t gay. So have wrers like Frank Miller, Denny O’Neil, Alan Grant, and Dev Grayson—though Grayson admted that she uld “unrstand the gay readgs.

After all, if a character isn’t wrten as gay, then that character n’t possibly be gay, right? Gayns is built to Batman. Batman is VERY, very gay.

… but the whole basis of the ncept is utterly gay.

Batman's longtime sikick Rob (Tim Drake) has e to a is actually gay. Check out the story! * gay batman and robin snl *

But gay subtext managed to suate self to the Dynamic Duo’s dyad om the very start. “It is like a wish-dream, ” he famoly wrote, “of two homosexuals livg together. This is the issue wh gay readgs.

Any given bond between mal n be homosocial whout beg homoerotic, and even the most explicly homoerotic bond n exist whout ever bbg up agast homosexual sire. Intentn don’t matter when to gay subtext. This is why, as a visual medium filled wh silent cu like body language and background tail, superhero ics have proven a particularly fertile vector for gay readgs over the years.

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