Batman Sidekick Revealed as Bisexual in Recent Comic Book
August 12, 2021
(CP) In the latest comic book in the Batman universe, the superhero sidekick character "Robin" seemingly reveals himself to be romantically interested in a male friend, an indication that he may be bisexual.
In Batman: Urban Legends # 6, published by DC Comics on Tuesday, Tim Drake, whose alter ego is Robin, was asked out on a date by his friend Bernard. Batman’s sidekick accepted the offer, thereby making him the latest well-established fictional character to become associated with the LGBT community.
A description on the DC Comics website explains that the newest edition of the series features Drake "in the den of the Chaos Monsters with the other kidnapped teenagers of Gotham City."
"In order to free himself and the other teens, Tim will have to embrace help from his friend Bernard and hear something about himself he never knew," the description explains. "A brand new chapter of Tim Drake’s life starts here.”
In the comic strip, obtained by TMZ, Drake found himself grappling with an internal struggle, where something has been “taunting” and “teasing” him. He contended that he must be experiencing a “lightbulb moment,” where “you know you’re supposed to be on the same page with your brain but not everything made sense.”
The comic book character noted that “people keep asking me what I want,” lamenting that “I couldn’t grasp it. Whatever it was, it always felt just out of reach.” In the present, he shared a sense of relief in his inner monologue by indicating that he felt that what he wanted was out of reach “until now.”
Story by Ryan Foley for the Christian Post
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