Meant to say a gay male member, there’s plenty of lesbians and DC probably wanted to balance that out.
Oh it won’t, not right away. But they’re going to drop off after a while if DC decides to make Bernard the default pairing for Tim going forward. Only chance of that not taking root is if Gotham Knights and Young Justice go with Steph, which is likely why DC decided to make Tim bi and not gay, so that the adaptions wouldn’t feel pressured to change their preferred pairing.
Yeah but it was relatively new and Lobdell didn’t actually do much with it. They could’ve easily killed it and had Jason come out. But upon reflection, making the LGBT Robin be the one considered a “failure” that Batman frequently beats the shit out of would have been a bad call. Bruce pummeling Jason to a pulp the next time he starts killing people would've had Twitter lose their minds more than they already do.
Jason and Artemis' relationship is pretty popular.
Right, it’s not that bi people don’t exist, it’s that Tim’s new appeal is that he’s the Robin who kisses boys. He’s not real, he didn’t *really* discover he was repressing his sexuality, a writer wrote him as doing that and editorial signed off on it because Tim has lacked a direction for a while, and now he has one. Dick, Jason, and Damian are also Robins who kiss girls, so Tim is unlikely to be doing that going forward because his sexuality is his divergence from them.I don't think Vordan was denying Bi people so much as just assuming how DC will be handling it with them trying to push Tim and Bernard's relationship so much despite how lacking in depth it is. There's an incentive to keep pushing Tim with Bernard to emphasize Tim as their queer Robin.