One of the Robins just came out of the closet
Tim Drake is finding himself, and going on a date with a boy
I remember years ago having a conversation with a friend where I told him one of my earliest moments of sexual consciousness was the weird feelings I had for Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman. He was a bit older and told me his was watching Burt Ward's Robin. Admittedly, it slightly shook the way I looked at Batman and Robin, but it was good to see something from another person's perspective. It forced me to confront my own homophobia, however slight it may have been.
It also made me wonder, with about 5% of the US population identifying as LGBT (combined with whatever percentage was still closeted), why weren't there any openly gay superheroes (this was pre-Northstar). You had Extraño, but he was about as open as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched or Monroe on Too Close For Comfort.
I wonder how much easier the already-difficult transition of puberty would have been for him others if Tim Drake existed decades ago.
Tim Drake is finding himself, and going on a date with a boy
I remember years ago having a conversation with a friend where I told him one of my earliest moments of sexual consciousness was the weird feelings I had for Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman. He was a bit older and told me his was watching Burt Ward's Robin. Admittedly, it slightly shook the way I looked at Batman and Robin, but it was good to see something from another person's perspective. It forced me to confront my own homophobia, however slight it may have been.
It also made me wonder, with about 5% of the US population identifying as LGBT (combined with whatever percentage was still closeted), why weren't there any openly gay superheroes (this was pre-Northstar). You had Extraño, but he was about as open as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched or Monroe on Too Close For Comfort.
I wonder how much easier the already-difficult transition of puberty would have been for him others if Tim Drake existed decades ago.
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