The history of the gay subtext of Batman and Rob.

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Batman's longtime sikick Rob (Tim Drake) has e to a is actually gay. Check out the story!

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BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY

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. 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.

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

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?

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. 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. 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.

FEAR OF A GAY BATMAN BROUGHT BATWOMAN TO LIFE

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.

BATMAN AND ROB WERE NEVER GAY, ACRDG TO DIRECTOR JOEL SCHUMACHER

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.

IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?

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.

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Is Batman Gay, Bisexual, or Straight? What Is DC Canon?.

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