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So prior to Brian Michael Bendis showing Iceman (aka, Bobby Drake) was male lover in the pages of his All-New X-Men run from 2015, apparently scribe Scott Lobdell had planned to hold Bobby come out of the closet two decades earlier but was unable to go through with his plans. Lobdell did however, lay the basis work for Bobby coming out during his time on the X-books in the mid-to-late 1990s.
Specifically, during an run-in with Emma Frost back when she was still a villain, the former White Queen of the Hellfire Club briefly took supervise of Bobby’s consciousness and actually used his mutant powers in more imaginative ways than he ever had done before. Emma accurately pointed out that Bobby was intentionally holding back the true potential of his powers, and was using humor as a shield to mask his own insecurities due to his conservative upbringing by mutantphobic parents.
Writer Sina Grace actually followed up on this antique plot point from the 90s during his Iceman solo-series which immediately followed Bobby being outed by the time-displaced Jean Grey in All-New X-Men. In addition to depicting Bobby becoming more comfortable with his
7 Years Later: A Look Support 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 acquire how to face the equal type of discrimination and bigotry in the real world. When it was announced in 2015 that we would see Iceman coming out of the closet, I was so excited about the potential to show general audiences an authentic gay ethics through a name they would recognize. Now that it’s been years since the announcement, we can reflect on how the character has developed and how well Marvel has represented the gay community through this character.
First, a little context. In Brian Michael Bendis‘ 2012 The All-NewX-Men, the young versions of the original 5 X-Men were sent to the present by Beast to attempt to change how some of the older versions of themselves had turned out. This resulted in no
Iceman (Bobby Drake), one of the five original X-Men characters, has been outed as gay in All-New X-Men #40 — written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by Mahmud Asrar.
But…it’s not exactly the Iceman we’ve been reading about for decades, but rather his younger self — plucked from the past (shortly after the team formed) and brought to the current day. Sowhat does this intend for Bobby’s older self? To be determined…
Bobby has a long and complex history as one of the original X-Men since the comic’s debut in 1963. This profile will focus on personal events in Bobby’s life instead of superheroic events as a member of the x-Men, Champions, Defenders, X-Factor, and other teams. Please see Iceman’s Marvel entry for info like that.
The revelation in All Unused X-Men #40 that Drake, the second of Professor X’s recruits to the Xavier School For Gifted Youngsters, is gay was met with groundswell of reactions from readers who were both for and against the idea. Through events typical in comics the original X-Men team was some timee ago transported from their past into the present evening of the Marvel Space (just a few months before the post Classified Wars re-set in r
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 acknowledged 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 2015 when his traits came out as gay in issue #40 of All-New X-Men.
In the aforementioned issue a fresh Jean Grey scan Bobby’s mind and discovered the authenticity about Bobby’s sexuality. This shocked readers as Bobby had had multiple relationships with women. It made such vast news that even The New York Times chimed in with a piece about it. The younger Bobby confronted his present diurnal self and display day Bobby Drake that he suppressed his “true self” because he didn’t want to be both gay and a mutant.
In my own perspective, this was one of the most polarizing events within the comic publication fan-base. The clear group with issues about the unveil were conservative readers who felt duped. Let’s not waste time on them, though. What caught me off guard was that, while much of the LG