Batman's Long Time Sikick Rob Com Out As Gay

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• BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
• WA, WAS ROB GAY IN BATMAN & ROB? HERE'S WHAT CHRIS O'DONNELL SAID

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. 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. 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.

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

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.

Bee the character did not know he was gay when he was his off-and-on relatnship wh Stephanie Brown.

It's got bat nippl and nearly endls ice puns but one of the big thgs dienc took after seeg Batman & Rob was that that the dynamic duo were probably gay.