We talk to the creative team of Merry Men, a ic that re-imag Rob Hood and his Merry Men as gay.
Contents:
- STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
- BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
- MERRY MEN EXPLOR THE QUTN 'WHAT IF ROB HOOD WAS GAY?'
STRICTLY HAS GONE ‘GAY’? WHAT DO PEOPLE THK THEY’VE BEEN WATCHG ALL THE YEARS?
Batman's longtime sikick Rob (Tim Drake) has e to a is actually gay. Check out the story! * is robin from strictly gay *
Homophobia is a ser and ntug problem, but was difficult this week not to enjoy aspects of the hoo-ha over Strictly Come Dancg. In what felt like a historil re-enactment of classic 1970s’ curta-twchg, 189 viewers plaed to the BBC about two men partnerg each other on primetime telly, and was hard to know what to lgh at first: the Mary Whehoe tone of the plats, the statement on Instagram by one of the dancers – realisg the full dramatic potential of the moment – that “love knows no boundari”, or the ia that the spectacle of two men dancg uld ever be the gayt thg about Strictly. Nohels, there was somethg vaguely fortg about the fact that, particularly the ntext of the recent LGBT teachg row, mastream culture at least, plats of this kd about gay reprentatn seem outdated to the pot of schools, of urse, the battle rag on.
I looked up the wordg of Sectn 28 and was amazed to fd that, until was overturned 2003, not only did ban lol thori om “promotg” homosexualy, but that, like somethg drafted by the Wtboro Baptist Church, banned “the teachg any mataed school of the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship”. Bt to refer them to Alan Partridge: “For cryg out loud, if I really uldn’t bear to nsort wh homosexuals, do you really thk I’d have pursued a reer televisn?
Former Emmerdale actrs Lisa Riley, Rob’s celebry partner on last year’s Strictly, was wh them when he popped the qutnPlot: Rob Wdsor wh Lisa RileyStrictly Come Dancg is to have s first gay weddg – and host Bce Forsyth is set to give a speech. Rob, who also has a steamy lendar out, is on the ont ver of The Gay Tim' Naked issue.
BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
Rob Wdsor appears the latt issue of The Gay Tim.
Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman.
Ultimately, this wouldn’t have happened whout champns at DC, like Dave and Jam Tynn IV, and I hope is as meangful for others as has been for me, ” she HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINERThe character jos Kate Kane, or Batwoman, as an LGBT member of the Batman Fay, as Kane was troduced 2006 as nonilly ic’s clivy ph was also preced by the reveal of a gay Capta Ameri earlier this year. 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. Acrdg to a ep-dive to the topic by Slate, an anti-ics psychiatrist even ttified before a Senate Submtee on Juvenile Delquency 1954, slammg the Batman ics as “a wish-dream of two homosexuals livg together.
MERRY MEN EXPLOR THE QUTN 'WHAT IF ROB HOOD WAS GAY?'
” Ocsnally, Batman ic wrers seemed to slyly embrace the ia of Rob beg gay, even as DC Comics officially mataed the character was straight. The news a few months after a versn of Marvel’s Capta Ameri ma headl by g out as gay.
“Throughout filmg, we started to feel like she and [Steve] shouldn’t get together, and that she’s gay, ” Hawke said.
”Hawke told Variety that wasn’t until filmg the fourth or fifth episo of the season that they all me to the cisn that Rob was gay, llg a “llective nversatn” she was happy to be a part of. But that don’t mean they need to go back and change —although I would’ve like to know a b more about Rob’s life outsi of school/Steve/gay.