The only problem is that this isn’t actually the adult Iceman/Drake, it’s his younger self dragged to the future from the 1960s.
The Bobby Drake announcement happened in Earth-616, the canonical Marvel Universe which means that this is a bona-fide, baseline Iceman. (And don’t even get me started on Ultimate Beast pretending he is gay for the sake of some weird moral crusade) Prodigy kisses his way into the “depraved bisexual” trope for drama.
When an alternative universe version of Wolverine turned out to be gay and in an adorable relationship with Heracles I was left wondering why this couldn’t just be the “normal” Wolverine. The context read like the authors were trying to generate unnecessary friction between the “flagship” gay couple of Hulkling and Wiccan, a comic couple as over-exposed as they are sexless and boring. When Prodigy of The Young Avengers was outed as bi I was ambivalent. In the past I’ve felt ambivalent toward other super-outings.
It’s been covered extensively in the press and that, I think, is a good thing representation.Or rather it would be in any other circumstance. If you’re a comic book fan you probably already know that Iceman of the X-Men has been outed as gay.