I have mixed feelings about iceman coming out. What concerns me is that I haven't felt that Marvel has had a great track record with gay characters so far? They are few and far between and in a lot of cases I don't think their storylines have been handled very organically. Lot of them are getting married/engaged too quickly and I think people are not getting sold on the love in the relationship first and foremost which in the long run I wonder if that's helpful to the cause of gay rights.

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I think the cause of gay rights is intrinsically helped more by having gay characters appear than by them not.
Beyond that, we can always do things better, not just with gay characters but with any characters.