Rob out as gay new Batman ic, addg to DC’s LGTBQ characters - Polygon

Contents:

• BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
• THE 20 TIM BATMAN AND ROB GAVE US THE SECRET GAY WK
• DELVE TO BATMAN AND ROB GAY CHARACTERS ONLE
• GAY INNUENDO BATMAN AND ROB

BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY

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. Let’s get one thg absolutely clear: Rob isn’t gay.

THE 20 TIM BATMAN AND ROB GAVE US THE SECRET GAY WK

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. 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.

DELVE TO BATMAN AND ROB GAY CHARACTERS ONLE

This is the issue wh gay readgs.

GAY INNUENDO BATMAN AND ROB

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.

That panel of a be-toweled Bce and Dick loungg together their solarium, for example, would not rry the potent homoerotic charge do, were the same scene simply scribed borg ol’ prose. But gay subtext, like rmatn, longs to be ee, and the universe doggedly nspired to keep droppg advertently hilar panels like this one, om a 1966 Jtice League of Ameri ic, to Bat-non:.