Batman's longtime sikick Rob (Tim Drake) has e to a is actually gay. Check out the story!
Contents:
- BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
- BATMAN AND ROB WERE NEVER GAY, ACRDG TO DIRECTOR JOEL SCHUMACHER
- WA, WAS ROB GAY IN BATMAN & ROB? HERE'S WHAT CHRIS O'DONNELL SAID
- FEAR OF A GAY BATMAN BROUGHT BATWOMAN TO LIFE
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. 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. 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.
BATMAN AND ROB WERE NEVER GAY, ACRDG TO DIRECTOR JOEL SCHUMACHER
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.
WA, WAS ROB GAY IN BATMAN & ROB? HERE'S WHAT CHRIS O'DONNELL SAID
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.
FEAR OF A GAY BATMAN BROUGHT BATWOMAN TO LIFE
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.