Is Rob (Tim Drake) Gay or Bisexual? - The Comic Book Dispatch
Contents:
- IS ROB (TIM DRAKE) GAY OR BISEXUAL?
- CREATOR OF ROB'S BOYIEND DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS GAY
- BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
IS ROB (TIM DRAKE) GAY OR BISEXUAL?
Which versns of Superman, Rob, and Wonr Woman are gay? How DC Comics is refg the symbols of characters like Batman, Green Lantern, and the Flash for a new, queerer generatn. * is robin robin's gay *
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.
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.
CREATOR OF ROB'S BOYIEND DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS GAY
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“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.
Now, tth be told, many have advertently been promotg the ia of a Rob ( general) beg gay for years om slurs to ignorant jok and even nuendos.
Therefore, to those trolls out there only readg the tl of so many articl, Rob is not gay nor has he “e out of the closet” after 80 years. Pl, we technilly aren’t ma aware if he is gay, bisexual, or any sexual nnotatn at this pot per Meghan Fzmart.
BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
So much so fact, that ’s rather difficult now for two men or two women to walk, talk, or hang out together whout someone thkg they’re homosexual. Look no further than the Faln and Wter Soldier on Disney Pl as proof of our current social media landspe phg the ia of two men workg close together… and beg gay.