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Contents:

• MERRY MEN EXPLOR THE QUTN 'WHAT IF ROB HOOD WAS GAY?'
• REIMAGG ROB HOOD AS A BADASS GAY OUTLAW
• THERE’S A SUPER-HOT, SUPER-GAY ROB HOOD COMIC OUT CALLED “MERRY MEN” THAT YOU NEED TO BE READG
• BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
• GAY HATON

MERRY MEN EXPLOR THE QUTN 'WHAT IF ROB HOOD WAS GAY?'

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REIMAGG ROB HOOD AS A BADASS GAY OUTLAW

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However, Profsor Knight suggts there's plenty of gay imagery wh the green wood beg a symbol of virily and referenc to arrows, quivers and swords beg all too later years when Maid Marian is troduced, Profsor Knight claims she plays ltle part the story; she's only there to make Rob appear more mascule as our hero sudnly has to embark on adventur to rcue the helpls heroe. What if they were all gay? This alternate take on the classic hero and his patrts go back to the legend’s roots and rebuilds around an LGBT talked to the creative team about where this ia me om, how gay people were perceived back those days (’s very different than today), and how beg historilly accurate adds to the story.

THERE’S A SUPER-HOT, SUPER-GAY ROB HOOD COMIC OUT CALLED “MERRY MEN” THAT YOU NEED TO BE READG

A few years ago I me across some discsn of whether "Rob Hood" was gay—i.

IGN: How, if at all, do beg gay change the character of Rob Hood? What sort of rearch did you do to how homosexualy was perceived and treated the era of Rob Hood?

BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY

In other words, there were— morn terms—gay acts, but not gay people. (“Homosexual” is a much later term. That's how I'm treatg them Merry Men; though even there, some of the st are exclively gay, and some are ls so.

Was important to you to reprent not jt gay men but the entire LGBTQ spectm?

In the book, "merry" is a term that's analogo to our "gay, " but 's much more poro; clus anyone whose sexual life strays outsi the bonds of the strictly heterosexual norm. Men aren't notorly monogamo, and pecially not 12th century gay men livg the fort.

GAY HATON

And gay guys get to be actn hero, which hardly ever happens. Tled, simply enough, Merry Men, the ic book is wrten and created by out wrer Robert Rodi, wh art by Jackie Lewis, and featur a bold new story that rests the faiar medieval characters as gay Men might sound at first like a lightfully mpy seri, but is que the oppose.

The ic is a ground, realistic look to a world where Rob Hood, still the faiar rogueish lear livg the woods wh his band of outlaws wh a good e, is now also a badass homosexual who ris up the face of discrimatn and opprsn.

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