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(Left to right) US actors Burt Ward and Adam West played Batman and Robin on TV in the 1960s
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The writer of the Batman comic book series has explained why the time was right for his crime-fighting buddy Robin to come out as bisexual.
Robin first teamed up with the superhero in 1940, to help keep the streets of Gotham City safe.
Now in the latest edition of Batman: Urban Legends, Robin, aka Tim Drake, has revealed his sexual identity.
Writer Meghan Fitzmartin told BBC Radio 4's Today it felt like the "missing piece" of his narrative.
"We were looking at what could we do with Tim and what stories do we want to tell with Tim," she said. "It's been a while since he's had his own story."
"I went back and I read a bunch of the comics that I grew up with and just really spent some time with that character to figure out what what stories did I want to tell and there were these pieces that kept coming together that felt that they didn't have context without this final piece of having him realise his own sexuality, that this is part of who he is as a person and as a character.
She added: "It felt like this was a missing piece in the understanding of this character, so it was sort of moving forward in that in that direction."
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Down the years, the alter-ego of Robin has been adopted by different characters in the story, from Dick Grayson [see actor Burt Ward pictured below] to Damian Wayne, via Jason Todd and Tim Drake.
At one stage, Drake's girlfriend Stephanie Brown donned the uniform and acted as Batman's trusted assistant but was sacked for not obeying his orders.
In the latest issue of the anthology series, Drake, now back in the role, accepts a date from another boy.
Fitzmartin says she spent "a lot of time and a lot of prayer" on making sure that the moment and manner in which he came out was just right.
"[I was] wanting to make sure that it was right but ultimately it was depending on the character and letting Tim speak what he felt, and allowing the words that he had to be on the page.
"I know that that's very a 'writer-ly' thing to say but it really did feel like I was handing over the reigns to Tim to say, 'Alright bud, whatever you want to say, go for it'."
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For many people, Robin's coming out party or scene has been a long time coming, after all these years in print and on the big and small screen.
US radio critic Glen Weldon from NPR wrote : "For decades, homophobes looking to land cheap jokes and queer fans aching to see themselves in the comics they love have shared an unlikely common goal - to shove Robin, Batman's trusty sidekick, out of the closet."
The Batman writer hopes they "did it as respectfully as we could".
She confirmed the character will continue to go on his own journey of personal discovery, while also focusing on his day job as a crime fighting caped crusader.
Batman will be totally cool with his sidekick's revelation about his sexuality, Fitzmartin added, noting how their relationship has always been akin to that of a father and son.
"I think Batman is incredibly open" she said. "He's going to be very receptive of a Robin.
"Ultimately there is a lot of love that he has for Tim and that will shine through."
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Coming out when you're 38 is a big thing to do. It's life-changing
By Ammar Ebrahim and Ben Hunte BBC News
LGBT people with learning disabilities have often faced barriers when it comes to their identity - but some are now using their negative experiences to bring about change.
"I thought I was going mad, I thought there was something wrong with me." That's how Shaun Webster felt when he first realised he was attracted to both men and women.
Shaun is 48 now, but It took him over a decade to come out as bisexual - in part he says, because of barriers many LGBT people with learning disabilities face.
Shaun has short-term memory issues and dyslexia. He attended a special needs school when he was younger, where he says he wasn't given a "proper sex education".
"I didn't know what bisexual meant," he says. "Special needs schools didn't do proper sex education for people with learning disabilities. They think people like us don't have sex."
In 2019, relationship, sex and health education was made mandatory in all schools in England. Before that, special needs schools didn't have a mandate to provide sex education, so the provision was often mixed.
For some people, the lack of sex education in their youth made it really hard for them to come out as LGBT in later life.
Shaun says the little sex education he did get largely focused on "making babies rather than explaining terms like gay, bisexual, trans and non-binary".
He didn't come out until he was 38, but says he wishes he could have sooner. "Coming out when you're 38 is a big thing to do. It's life-changing." When he did, he says he felt "a huge weight had been lifted" and he is now proud to be bisexual.
Shaun now works for Change, a learning disability charity, and as part of his work he helps to give sex education lessons.
One of the sessions Shaun runs focuses on sex and relationships, while the other looks at LGBTQ+ awareness. He says they talk about everything from sex, consent and the difference between friendships and relationships.
A lack of sex education isn't the only barrier people with learning disabilities have faced.
Ray Everall is a 21-year-old trans man from Brighton. He struggles with communication, audio and visual processing and has learning difficulties, including ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia. For him the main challenges are around accessing trans health services.
He started taking testosterone in 2018 and is having top surgery - the removal of breast tissue - next month.
"The main difficulty is processing information especially when it comes to gender identity clinics, which are a whole minefield," he says. "They have a checklist of things you need to be able to explain and I have difficulty expressing myself properly."
"There are a lot of invasive questions about your sex life," he adds. "That makes me uncomfortable. And when I'm uncomfortable it's even harder for me to express myself."
Trans people often report coming up against barriers in the health system, but having a learning disability adds another layer of difficulty for Ray. "Trans people are always infantilised to some degree and so are people with learning disabilities, so it becomes really challenging."
Ray is now part of the NHS youth forum and is working on improving trans and non-binary access to healthcare. One of the things he does is to help to make leaflets with advice on, including issues such as legally changing your name and title.
And while Ray has met some nice people on dating apps, his learning disability can make them challenging territory. "I really struggle to read tone, so the other day a girl messaged me saying 'you seem very bubbly'. But I was like what does that even mean?"
He adds: "Sometimes I take about a month to reply and that can make it seem like I don't care but that's not the case. I care a lot, I can just be quite forgetful because of my learning disability."
Ray's last relationship was with someone who also had learning disabilities. "I love being with other people who have learning disabilities because it's so nice to be with someone who can empathise with your experience, even if they don't have the same learning disability they just have more understanding."
Dr Claire Bates, runs Supported Loving, a national network that helps organisations support people with learning disabilities find love and relationships. She is also an honorary researcher at the Tizard centre, which specialises in learning disabilities, community care and autism.
Dr Bates says people with learning disabilities who identify as LGBT have often "really struggled to meet partners and find relationships".
The situation is particularly hard for LGBT women with learning disabilities, she adds: "I work with dating agencies for LGBT people with learning disabilities and some of them don't have any women on their books.
"We don't know exactly why but we know that in sex and relationship education there is very little about two women together. Historically when it comes to LGBT sex education it's been more focused on gay men. I'm not aware of any learning resources solely aimed at LGBT women with learning disabilities."
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Dr Bates adds: "We certainly don't talk about relationships with people who are LGBTQ very often in social care, there are some social care organisations doing a brilliant job but some just aren't doing enough."
The Care Quality Commission, which regulates social care in England, has guidance that says social care providers should support patients with their sex and relationship needs but it's not listed as a key line of enquiry, meaning providers aren't judged on the level of sex and relationship support they provide in inspections.
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In social care settings - including in care homes, for people in supported living and those in their own homes - there isn't much training for staff on how to have conversations around sex and relationships with patients who have learning disabilities.
Dr Bates feels regulators need to be seeing sexuality as "a fundamental part of being human".
"In an inspection we should be looking at friendship and relationship support and that should include the whole spectrum of sexualities," she says.
As for Shaun, today he is married and lives with his wife and children. He has an MBE for his work helping people with learning disabilities abroad and in the UK.
"I feel like I'm making a difference," he says. "I feel proud to be a role model for people with a learning disability to help them to understand about their sexuality."
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‘I am gay – but I wasn’t born this way’
Is sexuality purely the result of our biology? Brandon Ambrosino argues that simplistic explanations have ignored the fluid, shape-shifting nature of our desires.
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It was 2006, a full five years before Lady Gaga would set the Born This Way argument atop its unassailable cultural perch, but even then the popular understanding of orientation was that it was something you were born with, something you couldn’t change. If you happened to engage in activity that ran counter to your sexual identity, then you had two options: you were lying to yourself and everyone else, or you were just experimenting.
The sexual categories were rigid. Fixed. They weren’t subject to human imagination or experimentation – to the frustration of many sociologists, and kids, like myself, who found themselves inexplicably in bed with a player from the other team.
My sexual journey through college was anything but run-of-the-mill. I came out at a conservative Christian college in the US and was in a gay relationship for around two years with a basketball player who ended up marrying a woman. During that time, we both pal’d around with girls on the side. I even went so far as to fall in love with one. To this day, she and I joke about how she was the only girl I was ever in love with, and how I would’ve been quite happy marrying her.
As a writer, this kind of complicated story is incredibly interesting to me – mostly because it shows that my own personal history resists the kind of easy classifications that have come to dominate discussions of sexuality. Well, you must have been gay the whole time , some might think, and because of some religious shame, you decided to lie to yourself and experiment with a girl. But that was nothing more than a blip in the road. After all, most kids experiment with heterosexuality in college, don’t they?
If so, that ‘blip in the road’ has always been a thorn in my flesh. How do I explain that I was honestly in love with a woman? Some people might argue that I am innately bisexual, with the capacity to love both women and men. But that doesn’t feel like an accurate description of my sexual history, either.
I’m only speaking for myself here. But what feels most accurate to say is that I’m gay – but I wasn’t born this way.
Many people may find their desires changing direction - and it can't just be explained as experimentation (Credit: Ignacio Lehmann)
In 1977, just over 10% of Americans thought gayness was something you were born with, according to Gallup . That number has steadily risen over time and is currently somewhere between 42% and 50%, depending on the poll. Throughout the same period, the number of Americans who believe homosexuality is “due to someone’s upbringing/environment” fell from just under 60% to 37%.
These ideas reached critical mass in pop culture, first with Lady Gaga’s 2011 Born This Way and one year later with Macklemore’s Same Love, the chorus of which has a gay person singing “I can’t change even if I tried, even if I wanted to.” Videos started circulating on the internet featuring gay people asking straight people “when they chose to be straight.” Around the same time, the Human Rights Campaign declared unequivocally that “Being gay is not a choice,” and to claim that it is “gives unwarranted credence to roundly disproven practices such as conversion or reparative therapy.”
As Jane Ward notes in Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men, what’s interesting about many of these claims is how transparent their speakers are with their political motivations. “Such statements,” she writes, “infuse biological accounts with an obligatory and nearly coercive force, suggesting that anyone who describes homosexual desire as a choice or social construction is playing into the hands of the enemy.” People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often cast as homophobic, and their thinking is considered backward – even if they are themselves gay.
Take, for example, Cynthia Nixon of Sex and The City fame. In a 2012 interview with New York Times Magazine, the actress casually mentioned that homosexuality was, for her, a choice. “I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don’t get to define my gayness for me.”
The blogger John Aravosis was one of many critics who pounced on Nixon. “Every religious right hatemonger is now going to quote this woman every single time they want to deny us our civil rights.” Aravosis leveled the same accusations against me in 2014 when I wrote a piece for The New Republic discussing my own complicated sexual history. Calling me “idiotic” and “patently absurd”, Aravosis wrote, “The gay haters at the religious right couldn’t have written it any better.”
Gay rights do not have to hinge on a genetic explanation for sexuality (Credit: Ignacio Lehmann)
For Aravosis, and many gay activists like him, the public will only accept and affirm gay people if they think they were born gay. And yet the available research does not support this view. Patrick Grzanka, Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Tennessee, for instance, has shown that some people who believe that homosexuality is innate still hold negative views of gays. In fact, the homophobic and non-homophobic respondents he studied shared similar levels of belief in a Born This Way ideology.
As Samantha Allen notes at The Daily Beast , the growing public support for gays and lesbians has grown out of proportion with the rise in the number of people who believe homosexuality is fixed at birth; it would be unlikely that this small change in opinion could explain the spike in support for gay marriage, for instance. Instead, she suggests it hinges on the fact that far more people are now personally acquainted with someone who is gay. In 1985, only 24% of American respondents said they had a gay friend, relative or co-worker — in 2013, that number was at 75%. “It doesn’t seem to matter as much whether or not people believe that gay people are born that way as it does that they simply know someone who is currently gay,” Allen concludes.
In spite of these studies, those who push against Born This Way narratives have been heavily criticised by gay activists. “T
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