DC Comics’ gay Rob reveal Batman ics was far overdue - Polygon

Contents:

• IS ROB (TIM DRAKE) GAY OR BISEXUAL?
• BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
• WA, WAS ROB GAY IN BATMAN & ROB? HERE'S WHAT CHRIS O'DONNELL SAID

IS ROB (TIM DRAKE) GAY OR BISEXUAL?

Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman.

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?

BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS 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. Unpackg the gay subtext of Rob, the Boy Wonr.

WA, WAS ROB GAY IN BATMAN & ROB? HERE'S WHAT CHRIS O'DONNELL SAID

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? Gayns is built to Batman.