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Jessica Plummer has lived her whole life in New York City, but she prefers to think of it as Metropolis. Her day job is in books, her side hustle is in books, and she writes books on the side including a short story in Sword Stone Table from Vintage. She loves running, knitting, and thinking about superheroes, and knows an unnecessary amount of things about Donald Duck.

View All posts by Jessica Plummer. As you may have heard, Robin recently came out. Or, to be more specific: in Batman: Urban Legends 6, Tim Drake — the third but not current Robin — agreed to go on a date with another boy. Tim has long been read by many comics fans, yours truly included, as queer, and so this canonical confirmation was cause for celebration for many readers.

It was a financial success, too; Urban Legends 6 sold out and is going back for a second printing, which is not superma gay common in the comics world and unheard of for an anthology book. Congratulations, Tim! Congratulations, Jon! Except, hmm, this seemed pretty unlikely to superma gay.

Superhero comics are still overwhelmingly straight, so the odds of DC revealing two major franchise characters as queer within the span of a few months are pretty steep — especially one who is currently wearing the mantle of Superman. So I did a bit of digging to figure out how this rumor got started.

First, though, who is Jon Kent? Jon is the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane. He debuted in and is best known for costarring in the delightful all-ages Super Sons with Damian Wayne, son of Batman and current Robin. Due to convoluted plot shenanigans, Jon was abruptly aged up from 10 years old to 17 a couple years ago, something I plan to harbor simmering resentment about for the rest of my natural life.

Until recently, Jon went by Superboy, but as of July, the regular Superman comic book has been put on hiatus, and Jon has been starring in a monthly series called Superman: Son of Kal-El. The two issues that have published so far have both been excellent.

From what I can tell, it originated with Ethan Van Sciver. I do know that he has a history of claiming outlandish things that never pan out, like Superma gay shuttering its entire comics division to focus on movies. I doubt the estates get enough of a percentage of this billion dollar character for this to even matter.

Try publishing a comic about a Superman named Steve or something, see how far you get. He was fine. Well, he grew a mullet.

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But other than that, he was fine. You know, the kind of sites that monetize knee-jerk reactions of divisiveness in an anti-virtue circle jerk. The rumor has broken containment! Or up in the sky. Gay, bi, pan, it may be a while till this comes to fruition on the page. No hyperlinks.

No attributions to a source at DC. Not the tiniest bit.