Discussion: Founding x-men member comes out as gay

BoyLikeYouSuxx

In a new comic issue All-New X-men #40, one of the five founding x-men members comes out.

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There are thousands if not millions of stories of people who, for many different reasons, felt the need to hide their sexuality. The X-Men, with the conceit of time travel, give us a fascinating platform in which to examine such personal journeys,” he said. “This is just the first little chapter of a much larger story that will be told.

and the sistren is...

???

Rihinvention

Is that like "the gay community has a crystal meth problem" shade or something?

Katy Perry

Keep recruiting sistrens we're taking over.

jonasha

Pretty obvious to be honest. Just look at the underwear.

Giving me Tom Daley teas.

Dancehall

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Intriguingly, the pair go on to acknowledge that Bobby's older self isn't gay.

This version of Iceman was brought from the past to the future by Beast to help save the X-Men. He's not from an alternate reality or anything - it's the Iceman, just younger, so it's unclear how he could be gay, especially if his older self is confirmed as still being straight. Undoubtedly all will be revealed in time.

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Attitude

Expose ha Jean!!

Rogue

Sounds like his older self is just repressing it or in denial.

Newt

I find the potential implications really interesting. Like, specifically the part where they acknowledge the older version ISNT gay?

BoyLikeYouSuxx

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Originally posted by JayEl

Sounds like his older self is just repressing it or in denial.

this is probably what they will use as explanation, and that Jean was never pressured into reading his mind like she was with his younger self because his older self doesn’t make so many sexualized remarks towards women.

taylamour

I KNEW IT!

Eternium

Family Guy called it in 1999.

Real talk, they need to stop ****ing up the old superhero comics and start writing their own stories.

Mr.Marvelous

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Originally posted by FKA Dancehall

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Obsession

...I'm all for diversity, but this is just a goddamn mess - especially if they're still saying older Iceman is straight.

PhreshDiamond

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@ Jean just RUTHLESSLY outing him like that

Skywalker

Kingpin

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Originally posted by FKA Dancehall

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The Jessie J experience

Ressti

Why's it so hard for these comic nerds to write a decent gay character? This is so messy.

Darren-5-08

Kahi

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Originally posted by Ressti

Why's it so hard for these comic nerds to write a decent gay character? This is so messy.

Batwoman is a great gay character imo.

It still infuriates me how DC essentially banned the writers of that comic from marrying her to her girlfriend though. They ended up leaving the comic, which eventually lead to it getting cancelled thanks to a ****** replacement so I think the writers had the last laugh lmao.

Here's the blog post of one of the writers.

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Unfortunately, in recent months, DC has asked us to alter or completely discard many long-standing storylines in ways that we feel compromise the character and the series. We were told to ditch plans for Killer Croc’s origins; forced to drastically alter the original ending of our current arc, which would have defined Batwoman’s heroic future in bold new ways; and, most crushingly, prohibited from ever showing Kate and Maggie actually getting married. All of these editorial decisions came at the last minute, and always after a year or more of planning and plotting on our end.

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On topic, I have no idea what's going on. Current, 'old' Bobby's still straight, but his younger version who time travelled to the present isn't? There better be a good explanation for this.

King Maxx

So he's gay young, but straight when he gets older. Now that's a twist.