If it weren’t for the weird time-travel circumstances that brought us here or the strange bi-erasing manner in which his identity was established this would be positive. He’s is a long-running character who has a long history and is unlikely to fall into the trap of cancellation/marginalization that so many other LGBT heroes succumbed to. I would be fully on board for a gay Iceman. In X2: X-Men United when Bobby outs himself as a mutant to his parents they respond with “have you tried not being a mutant”, in the process spawning a generation of pro-gay reaction memes. Iceman in the movies became the character who made the X-Men a parable about orientation instead of race. Iceman/Bobby has been the subject of “ gay rumors” for years, even going so far as to date a character who was both a man and a woman. What I see here is a really awkward attempt to make comics more inclusive, one that happened to exclude a different, marginalized identity.
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Erase the possibility of bisexuality, Jean. This not only offers some really weird fodder to the gay conversion therapy supporters it also presents forcing somebody out of the closet and into a strict binary sexuality as “okay” when it’s NOT okay to do. I say might have given the way Jean staunchly denied present-Drake’s homosexuality. In the process they might have re-cast the present-day Drake’s relationships as beards. In other words the authors, through psychic Jean Grey, assigned Bobby a gay identity instead of allowing the character to develop on his own. All evidence in the comic points to Bobby agreeing with her assessment. Jean, using her telepathic powers, insists that young Bobby reads to her as “full gay”. Bobby rightfully asserts that that means that he could be bisexual.
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Present-day Drake has also had a series of relationships with women that often didn’t end well. Jean read his mind and didn’t detect any homosexual feelings. Jean, you’re a terrible person.Īt this point in the arc of the comic Bobby and Jean have both met present-day Bobby Drake. Instead, of coming to terms with himself and choosing to reveal himself to his friends he is mentally violated by resident telepath Jean Grey who then pressures him into admitting it.īobby. Bobby Drake does not choose to out himself in the comic. The problem is that this outing is a clear example of bi-erasure. The most problematic thing about the Iceman reveal is, however, not that the character can be erased easily. I don’t know if that was intentional but the setup makes this version of Iceman absurdly vulnerable to the “Bury Your Gays” trope.
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So they did, leaving us with newly outed gay character who can be erased with a flick of a time paradox. Perhaps he was after some super-60s idealism? Regardless, the move destroyed time (somehow?) making time travel impossible, stranding the past X-Men in the present with their future selves.Īll of this is fine and dandy as far as super-heroics are concerned and will likely get resolved when the Marvel authors get bored of having the past kids in the present It’s fairly simple until you toss identity politics in. In a move that was simultaneously par for the course in superhero comics and gobsmackingly short-sighted for a genius, Beast, the animalistic inventor of the X-Men brought the five, original, teenage X-Men from the past to the future to fix the world. The only problem is that this isn’t actually the adult Iceman/Drake, it’s his younger self dragged to the future from the 1960s. The Bobby Drake announcement happened in Earth-616, the canonical Marvel Universe which means that this is a bona-fide, baseline Iceman. (And don’t even get me started on Ultimate Beast pretending he is gay for the sake of some weird moral crusade) Prodigy kisses his way into the “depraved bisexual” trope for drama. When an alternative universe version of Wolverine turned out to be gay and in an adorable relationship with Heracles I was left wondering why this couldn’t just be the “normal” Wolverine.
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The context read like the authors were trying to generate unnecessary friction between the “flagship” gay couple of Hulkling and Wiccan, a comic couple as over-exposed as they are sexless and boring. When Prodigy of The Young Avengers was outed as bi I was ambivalent.
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In the past I’ve felt ambivalent toward other super-outings. It’s been covered extensively in the press and that, I think, is a good thing representation.Or rather it would be in any other circumstance. If you’re a comic book fan you probably already know that Iceman of the X-Men has been outed as gay.