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...
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'X-MEN' IN ICEMAN COM OUT AS GAY
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. In addn to qutns about how this episo is wrten, pecially regards to Jean’s role and Bobby’s own fort/disfort wh beg gay and also the qutn of bi-sexualy, which appears to be dismissed wrer Brian Michael Bendis’ dialogue, I also thk that there are unwrten assumptns about sexualy and sexual inty this sequence that should be unpacked to better unrstand the signifince and implitns not only of Bobby beg gay, but also of his g out.
Jean is prompted to prod Bobby to admtg his gayns followg a remark he mak about Magik’s hotns, Magik beg female and a woman. Their dialogue nclus wh Jean sayg, “Bobby … You’re gay.
Neher wrer Bendis nor artist Mahmud Asrar shows what, exactly, Bobby was thkg when Jean read his md and nclus, or, maybe affirms, that he is gay (the start of the dialogue — “Why do you say thgs like that? Was he thkg, “I am gog to say somethg het dubro-like about Magik now so that no one knows I am gay”? Or was he, fact, thkg, “I’m gay”?