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MARVEL’S ICEMAN JT ME OUT AS GAY
One of the most powerful mutants the Marvel universe has e out as a gay man. * is iceman gay in the comics *
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).
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.
THE ICEMAN ETH OUT: MARVEL FANS PROCS X-MEN'S GAY STORYLE
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. 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).