The Boy Wonder, the oldest comic book sidekick in history, discovers that he is gay.īut … if you are a comic book fan … the question arises … Well, which Robin is same-gender-loving? It is not Dick Grayson, the original character who later becomes Nightwing and leads the Teen Titans. It is also not Jason Todd, the young man that replaced Grayson (kinda died but didn’t) and then became Red Hood. It also wasn’t Stephanie Brown (who seemed to have died but had her death faked by Dr. Leslie Thompkins) nor Damian Wayne, Batman’s son (and the grandson of Batman’s nemesis Ra’s al Ghul).
Hotheaded and prone to murderous violence, his mother tried to get him killed, and eventually, he was killed by his own evil old clone Heretic. This Robin also returned from the dead, after his dad resurrected him with Darkseid’s Chaos Shard. What … comic books are complicated … keep up! Image Courtesy Of DC Comics The Robin that is now aware of his status within the LGBTQIA+ in the third mantle-holder, Tim Drake (despite being Stephanie Brown’s old boyfriend). The title’s writer Meghan Fitzmartin shows the moment that Drake’s sexuality became clear to him. In narrative form, after rescuing his male friend from a villain in Urban Legends #6, he says, “Ever had a lightbulb moment? Like something out of the ether taunting and teasing you. Like you know you’re supposed to be on the same page as your brain but not everything made sense.
People keep asking me what I want … But I couldn’t grasp it.
Whatever it was, it always felt just out of reach. Until right now.” For years, people have speculated that one of the Robins was gay - constantly questioning the relationship between the older Batman and the young sidekick.