Batman's longtime sikick Rob (Tim Drake) has e to a is actually gay. Check out the story!
Contents:
- 'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)
- BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
- IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
- FEAR OF A GAY BATMAN BROUGHT BATWOMAN TO LIFE
'BEEFKE HERO': JOE PHILLIPS BRGS GAY SUPERHERO OUT OF THE CLOSET (PHOTOS)
PHOTOS: 'Up, Up And I'm Gay': Comic Artist Joe Phillips Brgs Superhero Out Of The Closet * batman robin gay comic *
Former Batman ic wrer Grant Morrison even told Playboy magaze that “gayns is built to Batman. 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.
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.
BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
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?
IS BATMAN GAY, BISEXUAL, OR STRAIGHT? WHAT IS DC CANON?
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.” Or to put pafully obv terms: Change and diversy are storytellg tools, and refg to e them is nothg but a self-imposed disadvantage. 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.
FEAR OF A GAY BATMAN BROUGHT BATWOMAN TO LIFE
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.
After all, if a character isn’t wrten as gay, then that character n’t possibly be gay, right? Gayns is built to Batman.