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Queer Eye For The Hero Guy: Exploring Dick Grayson’S Sexuality, Thea Cheuk
Queer Eye For The Hero Guy: Exploring Dick Grayson’S Sexuality, Thea Cheuk
AUCTUS: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
The DC Comics character of Dick Grayson (Robin and later Nightwing) has been subtextally coded queer since his first appearance over seventy-five years ago, unintentionally creating an ambiguous sexuality up to today. The initial backlash against reading Robin as queer occurred in the ‘50s, but attempts to assert his heterosexuality have had mixed success, leading to contemporary comics writers acknowledging this established – though officially unstated – queerness by pushing how far they can suggest him to be LGBTQ+. This historical foundation establishes the precedent of queer coding Dick Grayson, and provides context when analyzing the subtext of him as …