Batman's longtime sikick Rob (Tim Drake) has e to a is actually gay. Check out the story!
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BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
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. 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.