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.
Contents:
- BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
- IS ROB (TIM DRAKE) GAY OR BISEXUAL?
- IS ROB OM STRANGER THGS GAY?
BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
Batman's longtime sikick Rob (Tim Drake) has e to a is actually gay. Check out the story! * is robin gay now *
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. Acrdg to a ep-dive to the topic by Slate, an anti-ics psychiatrist even ttified before a Senate Submtee on Juvenile Delquency 1954, slammg the Batman ics as “a wish-dream of two homosexuals livg together.
” Ocsnally, Batman ic wrers seemed to slyly embrace the ia of Rob beg gay, even as DC Comics officially mataed the character was straight. The news a few months after a versn of Marvel’s Capta Ameri ma headl by g out as gay.
IS ROB (TIM DRAKE) GAY OR BISEXUAL?
Is Rob (Tim Drake) Gay or Bisexual? - The Comic Book Dispatch * is robin gay now *
Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman. 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. DC Comics has cid to reveal that Tim Drake, the third male Rob, is gay … not bisexual.
”For years, people have speculated that one of the Robs was gay — nstantly qutng the relatnship between the olr Batman and the young sikick. This is an age-old and dangero stereotype lked to the Roman stutn of Perasty and horribly patg healthy-md gay men as pedophil and perverts. Also, spe some reports, Drake is gay and not bisexual.
IS ROB OM STRANGER THGS GAY?
Bee the character did not know he was gay when he was his off-and-on relatnship wh Stephanie Brown.
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.