Original X-Men Character Iceman Comes Out As Gay

In the last few years the X-Men comics have been fairly LGBT inclusive, but the gay or bisexual characters have all been characters only fans would know well. However that’s now changed as leaked pages from the latest issue of All-New X-Men reveals that Bobby ‘Iceman’ Drake is gay.

As you can see in the leaked pages below, his secret is semi-forced out of him by Jean Grey, although he seems more relieved than angry.

All-New X-Men centres on Professor Xavier’s first five students – Cyclops, Beast, Angel, Iceman and Jean Grey – who as teenagers are transported into the future and forced to face who they eventually become. What becomes particularly interesting about Bobby’s revelation is that in the future he doesn’t seem to be gay, so perhaps this is a hint that they are able to change how things turn out.

In the X-Men movies Iceman was played by Shawn Ashmore, and while he certainly wasn’t gay in the film, Shawn’s identical twin Aaron did play the gay Agent Jinks in the sci-fi TV show Warehouse 13.