Batman's Long Time Sikick Rob Com Out As Gay

IS ROB (TIM DRAKE) GAY OR BISEXUAL?

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

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CREATOR OF ROB'S BOYIEND DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS GAY

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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.

“Characters that were unknown to most of the general public — like Starman, say, or Maggie Sawyer, or Green-Lantern-no-not-the-active-one-wh-a-seri-but-the-olr-one-nobody-outsi-of-ics-fandom-knows-by-name — uld be gay, but Superman had to be able to sell movie tickets and toothpaste the Midwt.

“You n see a clear shift between so-lled ‘gay vague’ marketg and queer normalizatn mastream advertisg around 2015, ” Grayson ntu. A gay, or bi, or ace, or trans superhero might be a small and ut gture, but every gture tak on outsized meang when speakg out is self a source of fear.