Marvel Comics' 'All New X-Men' will reveal - and retn - Iceman (Bobby Drake) as a gay character. How will fans react?
Contents:
- MARVEL COMICS HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG ‘ASTONISHG X-MEN’
- MARVEL COMICS OUTS X-MEN'S ICEMAN AS GAY
- ‘X-MEN’ SUPERHERO ICEMAN COM OUT AS GAY NEW COMIC
- GAYS AND X-MEN
MARVEL COMICS HOSTS FIRST GAY WEDDG ‘ASTONISHG X-MEN’
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MARVEL COMICS OUTS X-MEN'S ICEMAN AS GAY
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Iceman, who remas wh the team until the twentieth issue, me out as gay 2015. 2 Young Avengers Has Gay, Lbian & Bisexual Characters. Created by Allan Heberg, a gay man himself, Young Avengers is one of the Marvel superteams wh the biggt LGBTQ+ reprentatn.
Its first roster clus Hulklg and Wicn, two young gay boys who soon bee one of Marvel's most stable relatnships.
‘X-MEN’ SUPERHERO ICEMAN COM OUT AS GAY NEW COMIC
There have been several LGBTQ+ superhero the X-Men roster, such as Bobby Drake, a gay man, Magik, a bisexual woman, or even Jsie Drake, a transgenr girl, among many others.
GAYS AND X-MEN
Iceman is one of Marvel Comic's most proment and publicly gay superhero, but he has nsistently stggled to fd love and his new ic he adms that he is stgglg to figure out his place the queer muny of Krakoa. Much of the first issue tak place the Green Lagoon, Krakoa's bar and club, wh Iceman gettg drks wh two other well known gay X-Men, Northstar and Rictor, as the three gossip about Bobby's love life. Drake reflects on the brief romance his younger self had wh Romeo, who he assum is still an nocent young gay hero nng around somewhere wh the Inhumans, as well as his sual relatnship wh Christian Frost, leadg Rictor to state "So you're sgle and havg fun.
Moments like this Hellfire Gala #1 show that Marvel Comics not only is terted featurg gay and trans characters but also lettg them speak and act ways that ronate wh real-life queer people. Still, the current state of Marvel's relatnship wh the LGBTQ+ muny has changed signifintly sce former Marvel Edor Chief Jim Shooter famoly clared that there were "no homosexuals Marvel ics. Back 1992, Marvel Comics ma headl by revealg that Northstar, a Canadian superhero associated wh Alpha Flight and the X-Men, was gay.