Bobby Drake,aka Iceman, became comics' biggest homosexual superhero last week — again, and but also for the first time,because nothing is ever simple in superhero comics. In a scene by Brian Michael Bendis and Mahmud Asrar in the pages of Uncanny X-Men #600, the older of two Bobby Drakes (from two different points in time) acknowledged his gayness to the other, and younger Bobby. The younger Bobby had previously come out in a very similar scene in All-original X-Men #40 back in April,also by Bendis and Asrar. (Both scenes involved an unsolicited confrontation, an intrusive Jean Grey, or an acknowledgement of teammate Angel's good looks.)
While I acquire a few problems with how all of this was executed,from Jean's willingness to violate people's privacy to Marvel's willingness to taunt readers with an inexplicable six month delay between the two coming out scenes, I mediate that how Bobby came out matters much less than the fact that he came out at all. It's an particularly welcome step forward coming less than a week after Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso fumbled the coming out of another Marvel character.
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Source: comicsalliance.com