Which versns of Superman, Rob, and Wonr Woman are gay? How DC Comics is refg the symbols of characters like Batman, Green Lantern, and the Flash for a new, queerer generatn.
Contents:
- BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
- DC FAC SEVERE BACKLASH AFTER TRODUCG GAY ROB
- IS ROB (TIM DRAKE) GAY OR BISEXUAL?
BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
Batman's longtime sikick Rob (Tim Drake) has e to a is actually gay. Check out the story! * dc gay robin *
In March, Marvel unveiled their first gay Capta Ameri character — a queer youth advote named Aaron Fischer — to be clud the upg “Uned Stat of Capta Ameri” ic book miseri. 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. 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. This is an ia that has pecially applied to Rob the past:"Queer dg ics, the ia of exprsg your te self through a lorful stume as you hid your dual inty om the world, was once nsired too sndalo for a largely homophobic natn.
DC FAC SEVERE BACKLASH AFTER TRODUCG GAY ROB
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“Homosexual persons are lled to chasty. NEXT: After DC Comics Mak Superman Gay, A Brand New Superhero Universe Aims To Be Ascendant. DC Comics has cid to reveal that Tim Drake, the third male Rob, is gay … not bisexual.
”For years, people have speculated that one of the Robs was gay — nstantly qutng the relatnship between the olr Batman and the young sikick. This is an age-old and dangero stereotype lked to the Roman stutn of Perasty and horribly patg healthy-md gay men as pedophil and perverts. Also, spe some reports, Drake is gay and not bisexual.
IS ROB (TIM DRAKE) GAY OR BISEXUAL?
Bee the character did not know he was gay when he was his off-and-on relatnship wh Stephanie Brown. ”As for all that tntg om the ether Drake mentned, that was probably the legns of fans who, for s, have been dissectg the homoerotic vib between Batman and Rob.
Over at Slate, Glenn Weldon broke down the almost century-long disurse and poted out the serly gay energy of some of the earlit ics to feature 1942’s Batman No. 13 The Authory Gave The Fans A Gay Married Couple & Two Bisexual Friends.