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Contents:
- MERRY MEN EXPLOR THE QUTN 'WHAT IF ROB HOOD WAS GAY?'
- REIMAGG ROB HOOD AS A BADASS GAY OUTLAW
- THERE’S A SUPER-HOT, SUPER-GAY ROB HOOD COMIC OUT CALLED “MERRY MEN” THAT YOU NEED TO BE READG
- BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
- GAY HATON
MERRY MEN EXPLOR THE QUTN 'WHAT IF ROB HOOD WAS GAY?'
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REIMAGG ROB HOOD AS A BADASS GAY OUTLAW
We talk to the creative team of Merry Men, a ic that re-imag Rob Hood and his Merry Men as gay. * is robin hood gay *
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THERE’S A SUPER-HOT, SUPER-GAY ROB HOOD COMIC OUT CALLED “MERRY MEN” THAT YOU NEED TO BE READG
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Profsor Knight suggted that one of the origal polil meangs of the story was that Rob's ristance to thory was actually opposn to the then damng view on homosexualy.
Ballads of the day make no direct reference to Rob beg gay bee of the moral climate of the time. However, Profsor Knight suggts there's plenty of gay imagery wh the green wood beg a symbol of virily and referenc to arrows, quivers and swords beg all too later years when Maid Marian is troduced, Profsor Knight claims she plays ltle part the story; she's only there to make Rob appear more mascule as our hero sudnly has to embark on adventur to rcue the helpls heroe.
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 hood gay *
What if they were all gay? This alternate take on the classic hero and his patrts go back to the legend’s roots and rebuilds around an LGBT talked to the creative team about where this ia me om, how gay people were perceived back those days (’s very different than today), and how beg historilly accurate adds to the story.
A few years ago I me across some discsn of whether "Rob Hood" was gay—i. IGN: How, if at all, do beg gay change the character of Rob Hood? What sort of rearch did you do to how homosexualy was perceived and treated the era of Rob Hood?
In other words, there were— morn terms—gay acts, but not gay people.
GAY HATON
(“Homosexual” is a much later term. That's how I'm treatg them Merry Men; though even there, some of the st are exclively gay, and some are ls so.