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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IS ROB (TIM DRAKE) GAY OR BISEXUAL?
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.