Batman's longtime sikick Rob (Tim Drake) has e to a is actually gay. Check out the story!
Contents:
- JOEL SCHUMACHER ON BATMAN & ROB: "I NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS AN IMPORTANT MOMENT GAY CEMA, BUT I’LL TAKE IT"
- BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
- BATMAN AND ROB WERE NEVER GAY, ACRDG TO DIRECTOR JOEL SCHUMACHER
JOEL SCHUMACHER ON BATMAN & ROB: "I NEVER THOUGHT IT WAS AN IMPORTANT MOMENT GAY CEMA, BUT I’LL TAKE IT"
Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman.”. Acrdg to a ep-dive to the topic by Slate, an anti-ics psychiatrist even ttified before a Senate Submtee on Juvenile Delquency 1954, slammg the Batman ics as “a wish-dream of two homosexuals livg together. ” Ocsnally, Batman ic wrers seemed to slyly embrace the ia of Rob beg gay, even as DC Comics officially mataed the character was straight.
The news a few months after a versn of Marvel’s Capta Ameri ma headl by g out as gay.
GQ spoke to the director about Batman & Rob’s legacy gay cema and his real fal words about the I saw that you jt apologized aga for Batman & Schumacher: I didn’t! Unpackg the gay subtext of Rob, the Boy Wonr. Gay subtext managed to suate self to the Dynamic Duo’s dyad om the very start.
BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
Let’s get one thg absolutely clear: Rob isn’t gay.
BATMAN AND ROB WERE NEVER GAY, ACRDG TO DIRECTOR JOEL SCHUMACHER
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.