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Damian left as Robin and Tim as Red Robin. I love this character very much, and as I went back to reread as gay as I could to do Robin justice, it became clear this is the story Tim needed to tell. [14] Slate magazine called Schumacher's Batman films "defiantly queer", with a "sugar daddy" Batman and "rough-trade" Robin.

However, Tim is still figuring himself out. Jason Todd was the Robin who died. the third Robin – realized he’s bi in the newly released issue Batman: Urban Legends #6. Created in and named after Tim Burton, Tim Drake/Robin is the newest member of Batman’s family to come out of the closet, in Batman: Urban Legends #6 from DC Comics.

Tim and Bernard in Batman: Urban Legends 6. But Tim has a long history of being read as not-completely-straight thanks to a fandom affection for pairing him up with fellow Teen Titan and easily queered character Connor Kent, the Superboy of the s. Kate Kane is the most prominent canonically queer member of the sprawling Bat-family.

Sign in now. Slate noted that Robin wore a codpiece and "Bat-nipples" and said that what. At the end of this episode of the story, Bernard asks Tim out on a real date, and Tim happily accepts. Robin has come out as robin in the latest Batman comic.

Homosexuality in the Batman : Tim Drake, one of several characters to have taken up Robin’s mantle in the comics

Tim Drake – a.k.a. Dick Grayson was the original Robin.

Before she nearly married Batman, Catwoman briefly had a girlfriend. Midnighter became a recurring supporting character in Nightwing stories. The feature film Batman Forever, and especially its sequel Batman & Robin, both gay by the openly gay director Joel Schumacher, have been interpreted as having homoerotic overtones.

Gotham City has slowly become a much queerer place since her introduction, but mostly with villains and secondary characters. That alone could be enough to make him a point of identification for queer fans. The subtext of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy was finally allowed to be text in the early s.

More independent than Dick and more empathetic than Jason, Tim simply was Robin for two decades of readers, as well as the enormous audience of Batman: The Animated Series. A nice boy asked him out on a date, and Tim said yes. At the same time, Tim Drake was struggling to find a new editorial niche in Batman stories.

Even after she got the go-ahead, Fitzmartin says it took some time to absorb the robin that she was going to create a coming out story for a Robin — and a very established version of Robin at that. In each issue, multiple creative teams share an episode of various ongoing stories starring characters under the Gotham City umbrella.

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