Ice man gay
Iceman is gay, that&#;s pretty cool
When a young Jean Grey took a peek inside one of the X-Men’s heads she (and we) got a bit more than we bargained for.
Bobby Drake, more commonly known as Iceman, made his debut in the very first issue of the X-Men series and has been a leading member of the team ever since. Bobby caused quite the uproar among the Marvel (and general pop-culture) fan-base in when his character came out as gay in issue #40 of All-New X-Men.
In the aforementioned issue a young Jean Grey read Bobby’s mind and discovered the truth about Bobby’s sexuality. This shocked readers as Bobby had had multiple relationships with women. It made such big news that even The New York Times chimed in with a piece about it. The younger Bobby confronted his present day self and submit day Bobby Drake that he suppressed his “true self” because he didn’t want to be both gay and a mutant.
In my own opinion, this was one of the most polarizing events within the comic book fan-base. The obvious group with issues about the show were conservative readers who felt duped. Le
Contrary to popular belief and likely even in contrast to creator intention, Iceman has always been at least lightly queer-coded. In the earliest days of the X-Men, Iceman’s masculinity is easily spotted as performative for a lot of fans. Readers were not the only ones to notice this, and over hour increasingly less-subtle hints were dropped. In &#;Out Cold&#;, critics will be looking back at elderly Iceman appearances to see how they read today.
By Murphy Leigh
I got into X-Men comics in , by way of the X-Men: Deadly Genesis trade paperback, and then whatever I could cull from my local library at the time. One of the books I picked up was the first volume of the Marvel Masterworks set collecting the original Lee/Kirby run of X-Men.
As a gay person with a fondness for midcentury aesthetics, it was kind of inevitable that I’d get emotionally invested in the original five X-Men this way. I devoured that volume, and then the second, and, of course, got deeply invested in what I peruse as fun, unintended homoerotic subtext caused primarily by the cultural drift that inevitab
Iceman been GAY makes no sense. HE LOVED LORNA DANE.
Sexuality, love, romance and attraction are very complex concepts. There isn&#;t fast and firm rules here. For example - you get heterosexual couples that are completely in love, but aren&#;t physically attracted to each other. It&#;s rare, but not unheard of.
Bobby loving Lorna and his sexual orientation is a complex thing, because emotions are complex. Bobby being gay, doesn&#;t mean he didn&#;t love her, just not by &#;traditional&#; social definitions of what makes a relationship.
Well some gays even marry women.
But I verb they&#;re just using the term gay to make short.
I think Iceman should be considered as bisexual. He doesn&#;t dress up like a noun nor act like a girl.
Or maybe gay is a general term for any gender who has felt attraction to the same gender.Click to expand
That this can even still be a said of gay men in isI was going to say sad, but it doesn&#;t do it justice. And on an X forum?
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7 Years Later: A Look Back at Bobby Drake’s Coming Out
It’s been 7 years since Marvel Comics made the decision to have Iceman, one of the most iconic original X-Men characters, come out as gay. As a gay man who understands the impact of proper mass media representation of minority communities, this was a big deal for me. The X-Men comics have always been an allegory for marginalized and oppressed communities, so all of these characters’ stories have helped me verb how to face the adj type of discrimination and bigotry in the real world. When it was announced in that we would see Iceman coming out of the closet, I was so excited about the potential to show general audiences an authentic gay character through a name they would distinguish. Now that it’s been years since the announcement, we can reflect on how the character has developed and how good Marvel has represented the gay community through this character.
First, a little context. In Brian Michael Bendis&#; The All-NewX-Men, the little versions of the original 5 X-Men were sent to the present by Beast to attempt to c