One of the most powerful mutants the Marvel universe has e out as a gay man.
Contents:
- MARVEL’S ICEMAN JT ME OUT AS GAY
- FOR LGBT FANS OF X-MEN, ICEMAN COMG OUT AS GAY HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMG
- NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- KNOWLEDGE WAS: THE POSSIBLE HTS OVER THE YEARS THAT ICEMAN IS GAY
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 * new gay iceman *
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.
FOR LGBT FANS OF X-MEN, ICEMAN COMG OUT AS GAY HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMG
* new gay iceman *
A gay man.
And on Wednday, November 4, he me out as a gay man the pag of Unnny X-Men No.
NEW ‘GAY WATER’ LOOKS TO AVOID BUD LIGHT DISASTER
A new nned cktail lled Gay Water is lookg to attract LGBTQ drkers and avoid the pfalls of Bud Light's disastro marketg partnership wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney. * new gay iceman *
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. 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.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
Wh the return of his solo seri, the wrer Sa Grace says, Iceman will be “tryg to figure out how he n be a shg bean to the gay muny.” * new gay iceman *
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. 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.
KNOWLEDGE WAS: THE POSSIBLE HTS OVER THE YEARS THAT ICEMAN IS GAY
"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. It's weird that there's this versn of gay characters seen, pecially Amerin shows, as people who are almost sexualized, " he said. Although the news leaked earlier this week, All New X-Men #40, which hs store shelv today, ’s revealed by wrer Brian Michael Bendis that Iceman is gay, or at least the sixteen-year-old versn of Iceman that’s strand our time is gay.
It is this sixteen-year-old versn of Iceman who me out as gay, after Jean Grey telepathilly picked up om him and fally nonted him about . When young Bobby asks Jean how his olr self n be straight if he’s gay and they’re the same person, he seems to figure out pretty quickly for himself, as the followg panels show:. “I’ve never once thought how anyone uld thk Iceman is gay.