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BATMAN’S LONG TIME SIKICK ROB COM OUT AS GAY
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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. 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. Earlier this year, Marvel troduced the first gay Capta Ameri by way of character Aaron Fischer. Related ntent: Tom Hiddlton addrs Loki's genr fluidy on Disney+ seriMarvel troduc the first gay Capta Ameri to the icsDC fally sts gay Green Lantern — but rais new qutns.
10 IMPORTANT GAY MOMENTS COMIC BOOK HISTORY
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.
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?