I'll admit, it's been a while since I read X-Men (think I stopped reading shortly before House of M), but when I found out that Iceman was gay, I just knew I was completely done with the series. Not because he's gay (despite what you may think of my comments in this thread, I'm not homophobic, and basically, couldn't care less), but because it's Iceman. Iceman's father was racist, and lowkey even resented his son for being a mutant (which lasted until Iceman went undercover with Friends of Humanity where he defended mutants). So, not only did his father have a problem with him for being a mutant, Iceman also had a relationship with Opal, who was Japanese. Okay, so far good writing, and then we got hit with the whole "inclusion for the sake of inclusion" wave of the recent years, but instead of making any other character gay (in Ultimate X-Men Collossus was gay, which I thought was a nice touch), they pick the character who's had an interracial relationship. Instead of making this more prominent, they make him gay. Makes me wonder if Iceman isn't really gay, but just hates his father at this point.
