Batman's longtime sikick Rob (Tim Drake) has e to a is actually gay. Check out the story!
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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! * batman robin comics gay *
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. 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.
BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
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. * batman robin comics 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. 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. " More From Men's HealthThere have been plenty of jok ma over the s about the arguably homoerotic unrton of Batman and Rob's crime-fightg partnership, both on the page and on the screen—and Chris O'Donnell's portrayal of Rob the 1995 film Batman Forever is certaly rponsibly for more than a few adolcent viewers realizg they might be gay—but this marks the first time that DC has ma an attractn to men an -universe part of Rob's story don't exactly pict Rob stormg out of the closet.
It also don't yet specify whether the character intifi as gay or bisexual, stead optg to anilly show the character the earlier stag of figurg out his sexualy and his feelgs for Bernard. Unpackg the gay subtext of Rob, the Boy Wonr.