Tim Drake can be whoever he wants to be 💯 Here's why his coming out in BATMAN: URBAN LEGENDS #6 is so historic:

@Jack_Kentner 1 - lgbt people usually go through *a lot* of introspection to realize they're queer, so changing their mind is not usually something that's very likely to happen. 2- representation is important

@lettuce_bird 1). That’s a matter of subjective opinion though. There are people who identified as queer for a time but no longer do. Writers can pull whatever reasoning out of their butt to justify their reasoning for a change, just like with turning Tim Drake bi out of the blue.

@Jack_Kentner @DCBatman Ah yes...the "What if we made Black Panther white?!" style of questioning.

@FireGokai @DCBatman Now that you mention it, is there a particular reason why Black Panther should be black? You could just as easily place Wakanda in the Amazonas and have them all be native American, and nothing would change.

@Jack_Kentner @DCBatman On a whim? Really?

@WaterTribeJ @DCBatman Ah yes, another out of context panel where Tim is thinking about Dick Grayson.

@zoobatz @DCBatman No…because Tim has been straight for his entire existence prior to this one issue. The writer would be undoing a retcon.

@Jack_Kentner @DCBatman ok but who tf said he was straight in first place...?

@Eventrapta @DCBatman The thirty years of him making out with women and never thinking of men in a sexual or romantic context speaks for itself.

@NotAPersonsArt @DCBatman >If a character didn’t specify that they were straight even though they have only been with the opposite sex for their entire existence then their sexuality is ambiguous. Making a character something only because the lore didn’t explicitly say they weren’t that thing is silly.

@Jack_Kentner @DCBatman I'm with You 100%

@Jack_Kentner @DCBatman Just so tired of having exhisting characters with years behind them being changed to only pander and I mean only pander to make the woke crowd happy. Sexualality, gender swaps, and race changes are all to the point of exhaustion now. It's lazy writing to act like it's new ideas

@Jack_Kentner @DCBatman I think it was never explicitly said tim was straight, so no sexual orientation was changed. The whole point is that now it is implied that he's bi, so it can't be changed (or at least it shouldn't, but he's just a character, anything can happen)

@Jack_Kentner @DCBatman The amount of LGBT characters in comics underrepresents the amount of actual LGBT people in life, so when we gain some ground in terms of representation, it means a lot to us. To make those characters straight is punching down.

@Jack_Kentner @DCBatman Good question! DC is wrong!