Gay iceman

Iceman wasn’t revealed as bi, he’s specifically stated to be gay. This means those 50 years he’s just been lying to our faces. He was characterized as being your typical American boy who’s horny and wants to get a girl, you see this every where in his many appearances. Young Bobby Drake confirmed that he is gay, but readers were left with the cliffhanger of what that means for present-day Iceman, who has always acted straight.

Now, we have our answers. Original X-Men member Iceman comes out as gay in newest issue of the "All New X-Men #" After more conversation, where Jean points out she can read minds, Bobby finally says "I know.". Iceman comes out as gay to the world in X-Men #14, and shows why he's an Omega level mutant in the process. One of the conflicts younger Iceman faces is that he’s gay, while the older version of himself isn’t.

In All-New X-Men No. 40 (April ) we found out, by way of telepathy, that the younger Iceman.

This is the latest in a feature where I just share some bit of comic book history that interests me. Here is a collection of all of the installments in the feature so far. One of the interesting aspects of young Iceman coming out in the most recent issue of All-New X-Men and from the sound of Brian Michael Bendis' discussions of the topic, it sure sounds like adult Iceman will be catching up with him, as well is the notion that Iceman being gay is something supported in past comics.

Bendis noted to CBR:. CBR: This story isn't something that's coming out of the blue, either. Over the years there's been a lot of hints that Bobby might not be entirely honest with himself about his sexuality. Bendis: Yes! That's the funniest conversation online. We have some people going, "What on Earth are you talking about?

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Where did this come from? Already on Tumblr, and I'm not going to repost them until later in the week, people have posted a road map of panels of things that Bobby has done over the last 50 years that prove the point that I thought was obvious, and many others did too. Bendis is correct that "Iceman is gay" is something that has come up a whole lot over the years with X-Men fans.

So what's this road map that Bendis is referring to? I don't know what he's specifically referring to, but I know what what most of the signs people refer to when they argue that Bobby Drake is closeted. So let's take a look at them. First off, obviously when he was created, Iceman was not intended to be gay. That wasn't even within the realm of possibility for someone like Stan Lee for a superhero character in Even as other writers took the book over, clearly, they were never thinking Bobby was gay, either.

Bobby had a couple of girlfriends during his first stint as a member of the X-Men, but nothing serious. Iceman then helps to form the Champions soon after leaving the X-Men in , but again, no real relationship. He seems to be getting close to Darkstar, but it fizzles, especially when she ignores him when he risks his life to save her in a battle involving the Stranger. Bobby is more or less just a guest star character for the rest of the s Champions folded quickly and well into the s, before J.

Beast was the public face of the team and the team leader. Still, it was pretty clear that Bobby was still considered straight by the writers. New writer Peter Gillis was interested in exploring some interesting ideas about sex and gender, and it sort of began with Defenders , with Bobby flirting with his new teammate, Cloud Cloud changes back and forth and Bobby has a particularly hard time when he's consoling Cloud on her bed when she changes into a man.

Bobby freaks out, and tells Cloud that he wants to help, he just can't. And as they come closer to learning Cloud's origins later on and whether she actually DID "turn" into a guy or if she is perhaps two person merged into one Honestly, I don't think the Cloud era is all that important to the overall "Hints that Bobby is gay" storyline, but people will always bring Cloud up, so I figure I might as well address it.

Bobby joined up with the new X-Factor soon after and again, didn't have much in the way of love interests until Opal Tanaka was introduced in X-Factor Again, writer Louise Simonson was clearly writing Bobby as straight. They remain a couple for a couple of years, even as Bobby rejoined the X-Men.