[jz638]

With all the spandex-clad, cape-wearing, big entrance-loving superheros already out there... is this rawhide kid really the first gay superhero?

[Eternal_Bear]

The relationship bewteen Batman and Robin was always a bit strange wasn't it?

[Caesar Soze]

He's not the first gay superhero. If the article is correct, he is the first gay title superhero. The spandex is a throwback to 1930s acrobats, whose influence on superhero design never really died out.