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Marvel Spoils The Iceman Scene In Uncanny X-Men #600, Via The Advocate

That was the scene from All-New X-Men #40 from six months ago.

Finally it pays off tomorrow. We teased it a little but gay-focussed website/magazine has been handed the scene from the middle of tomorrow's Uncanny X-Men #600 by Marvel PR folk….

In the three-page exclusive preview of Uncanny X-Men #600 below, young Drake confronts his older self about his sexuality, and the truth behind which way the original Iceman swings is finally revealed.

And it plays out as Bleeding Cool's Joe Glass pretty much had it, when he wrote,

Our outward portrayals can be as much a mask for what is really going on with us than a true representation of our inner state of being. It could explain Iceman's continuous disastrous relationships with women. In fact, a gay man dating, or marrying a woman, actually has a term in some circles…it's known as using a 'beard'. Beards because it's both a signifier of masculinity (which for decades was considered a mutually exclusive concept from homosexuality) and a classic disguise technique. It was common with people of status and actors…it still is. So why not a superhero?

And not, as some people feared, that Jean Grey just made young Bobby gay with her out of control telepathy…

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