Marvel Comics' 'All New X-Men' will reveal - and retn - Iceman (Bobby Drake) as a gay character. How will fans react?
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MARVEL’S ICEMAN JT ME OUT AS GAY
Iceman out as gay to the world X-Men #14, and shows why he's an Omega level mutant the procs * is iceman gay marvel *
Iceman is gay. He almost cl, but then rensirs, offerg a personal ttimonial about the event and how relat to his own life as a gay the statement, Iceman explas that he ed to be ashamed not jt of his powers, but his sexualy, thanks to scty and bigotry om his peers.
A gay man.
And on Wednday, November 4, he me out as a gay man the pag of Unnny X-Men No. 600 (a follow-up to last April's reveal that a younger versn of the character was gay — more on this a b).
MARVEL COMICS OUTS X-MEN'S ICEMAN AS GAY
One of the most powerful mutants the Marvel universe has e out as a gay man. * is iceman gay marvel *
This edorial move mak one of Marvel's most inic and high-profile hero a gay man — a ttament to the pany's ongog missn to clu more diversy and make sure s ic books reflect the real world. One of the nflicts younger Iceman fac is that he's gay, while the olr versn of himself isn't. 40 (April 2015) we found out, by way of telepathy, that the younger Iceman is a gay man.
Wh younger Iceman beg gay, olr Iceman datg women, and Jean Grey llg "a unique suatn, " there was a qutn of whether the X-Men would ultimately get to the nature-vers-nurture bate — a story that uld get really msy. Though Iceman wasn't explicly wrten to be a gay character, his storyl and his history uld be terpreted as allegori for LGBTQ life. Iceman isn't Brian Michael Bendis's only gay character.
But he also created another gay X-Man named Benjam Deeds. 14 (2013), Deeds, like Iceman, out as gay:. "The fact that Ben has e out as homosexual is jt a small facet of who he is and what he is gog to brg to Cyclops’ select team of X-Men, " Marvel spokman Joe Taraborrelli told the Huffgton Post 2013.