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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
Batman's longtime sikick Rob (Tim Drake) has e to a is actually gay. Check out the story! * batman and robin homosexual innuendo *
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. 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?
THE 20 TIM BATMAN AND ROB GAVE US THE SECRET GAY WK
More super-hero "gay vib" today as Gay Star News remds how gay nuendo has been a part of the Batman mythology for s. As GSN mentns, the * batman and robin homosexual innuendo *
Gayns is built to Batman.
Batman is VERY, very gay. … but the whole basis of the ncept is utterly gay.
DELVE TO BATMAN AND ROB GAY CHARACTERS ONLE
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. This is the issue wh gay readgs.
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.
GAY INNUENDO BATMAN AND ROB
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:.