Do Bobby Need to Be Openly Gay Stephen Sondheim’s Revised ‘Company’?

Contents:

• MARVEL’S ICEMAN JT ME OUT AS GAY
• IS BOBBY LEE GAY? THE COMEDIAN’S LIFE STORY AND SEXUALY
• ‘X-MEN’ CHARACTER ICEMAN OUTED AS GAY
• WHO IS BOBBY GUY? WIKI: FAY, DEATH, GAY, AFFAIR, NATNALY, PARENTS
• DO BOBBY NEED TO BE OPENLY GAY STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S REVISED ‘COMPANY’?
• 139 MATCH FOR BOBBY GAY
• ‘X-MEN’ CHARACTER ICEMAN OUTED AS GAY

MARVEL’S ICEMAN JT ME OUT AS GAY

Has anyone ever thought Bobby might be secretly gay? I was thkg about Bobby today and realized that a lot of his characteristics make sense for a young gay guy the closet.

IS BOBBY LEE GAY? THE COMEDIAN’S LIFE STORY AND SEXUALY

And on Wednday, November 4, he me out as a gay man the pag of Unnny X-Men No.

‘X-MEN’ CHARACTER ICEMAN OUTED AS GAY

600 (a follow-up to last April's reveal that a younger versn of the character was gay — more on this a b). 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.

WHO IS BOBBY GUY? WIKI: FAY, DEATH, GAY, AFFAIR, NATNALY, PARENTS

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.

DO BOBBY NEED TO BE OPENLY GAY STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S REVISED ‘COMPANY’?

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.

139 MATCH FOR BOBBY GAY

One of the more pellg qutns is what kd of gay character Iceman will be. There's been a trend ic books and pop culture that se gay characters troduced but then shipped off to romanc and shuttled to marriag (see: Northstar).

A lot of gay characters are also often good-lookg whe men (see: Northstar, Iceman, Deeds, Wicn, etc. It's been a very one-dimensnal, "rpectable" view of gay life that's often void of sex or, more simply, imperfectn and discretn. "I do fd fascatg that really wh the last 10 years and relatively recent tim, there's been a gay character clud most mastream edi and shows, which is great, " ic book wrer Mark Millar told me while talkg about his ic book Juper's Circle.

‘X-MEN’ CHARACTER ICEMAN OUTED AS GAY

It's weird that there's this versn of gay characters seen, pecially Amerin shows, as people who are almost sexualized, " he said. The X-Men are signifint enough pop cultural figur that when Bobby Drake, AKA “Iceman”, was wrten as gay All-New X-Men #40, media outlets outsi of the ics prs published news ems and mentari on the moment, cludg CNN, The Huffgton Post and The Advote.

While many of the notic sentially amounted to, “hey look, a re member of the X-Men is now gay, ” other piec, primarily at dited ics s, addrs the polics and ethics of how Bobby is revealed as gay — he’s chid to g out by Jean Grey — or seek to place this moment to a larger ntext of media reprentatn of LGBTQ characters and experienc.