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Contents:

• IS ARCHIE FROM RIVERDALE GAY IN REAL LIFE? WIKI, BGRAPHY, AGE, SPOE, NET WORTH, FAST FACTS
• YOU THK 'RIVERDALE' IS WILD? WA TIL YOU HEAR ABOUT ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SASA'S GAY ARCHIE PLAY
• WHO IS ARCHIE GAY CHARACTER?
• ARCHIE GAY MARRIAGE IC SELLS OUT FACE OF BOYTT LL
• ARCHIE GO GAYBY BRETT BERKAPRIL 26, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE GANG AT ARCHIE COMICS, ONE OF THE WORLD’S LONGT-NNG AND MOST POPULAR IC BOOKS EVER, HAS FALLY CID TO QUEER THGS UP A LTLE. THIS FALL, AN OPENLY GAY TEENAGER, KEV KELLER—A HUNKY YOUNG TRANSFER STUNT WH A SQUARE JAW AND A FURROWED BLOND HAIRDO THAT LOOKS NOT UNLIKE A GILD RO MIRROR AME—WILL ENROLL AT RIVERDALE HIGH, IMMEDIATELY DRAWG THE ATTENTN OF BOYS AND GIRLS ALIKE. I SEE THIS AS FURTHER EVINCE OF GLEE’S FLUENCE AS THE GAYT THG TO H THE MASTREAM SCE MANSPG (AND THE PENULTIMATE STEP THE HOMOSEXUAL TAKEOVER OF AMERI). NOW THAT CHRIS COLFER (“KURT”) IS THE NATN’S SWEETHEART, EVERY NOCENT BASTN OF TEENAGER-DOM IS STGGLG TO GET S OWN LTLE HOMO. OBVLY, I SUPPORT THIS ENAVOR. GAY KIDS ARE EVERYWHERE, AND THEY SERVE TO SEE THEMSELV STEREOTYPILLY PORTRAYED AS HOT, POPULAR, BODY-OBSSED, VAPID, AND TWO-DIMENSNAL JT LIKE EVERY OTHER PICTN OF YOUNG PEOPLE POPULAR CULTURE. BUT THIS KEV CHARACTER BEGS A FEW QUTNS ABOUT THE ARCHIE-VERSE.1) IS HE REALLY FIRST? THE LAST TIME I READ AN ARCHIE IC, I WAS PROBABLY ABOUT EIGHT. THEY HAD THEM THE WAG AREA OF THIS WEIRD FAY RTRANT WE ED TO GO TO SUBURBAN DETRO LLED BILL KNAPP'S, WHERE THEY SERVED THIS TENDON-Y CHICKEN AND BISCUS, AND WHERE YOU ULD GET A EE CHOLATE KE IF YOU ME ON YOUR BIRTHDAY. ANYWAY, AS FAR AS I N REMEMBER, THE ENTIRE PLOT OF NEARLY EVERY STORYLE REVOLVED AROUND AN IMPLIED THREE-WAY BETWEEN THE EPONYMO ARCHIE, BTE HEIRS VERONI, AND FLAXEN-HAIRED GIRL-NEXT-DOOR BETTY. MAYBE GIRL-ON-GIRL ACTN LIKE THIS DON’T UNT AS "GAY." OR MAYBE, SCE THE LADI NEVER OFFICIALLY CLARED THEMSELV TO BE LBIANS, KEV IS THE FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER.WHEN’S THE MOVIE G OUT? ARCHIE HAS BEEN LEFT LANGUISHG WHILE LERALLY EVERY OTHER IC BOOK EVER WRTEN—AND SOME THAT AREN’T EVEN FISHED YET—HAS BEEN MA TO A MAJOR MOTN PICTURE. WHY? BEE THE SERI IS ENTIRELY LACKG BLOOD-SPLATTERG VLENCE, BROODG AND PRSIVE PROTAGONISTS, SK-TIGHT STUM, ERSATZ SUPERPOWERS, HTS AT SEXUAL ISSN, OR NE YEAR-OLDS NSTANTLY SAYG CUNT AND MOTHER-FUCKER LIKE THEY HAVE A TOURETTIAN TIC. INSTEAD, ’S ABOUT A BUNCH OF SIPID, AVERAGE FOOLS WHO DON’T DO ANYTHG BUT DRIVE AROUND, DRK ICE CREAM SODAS, AND OTHERWISE ACT LIKE THEY JT PED OM A DULLED-DOWN VERSN OF BETTY DRAPER’S ADOLCENCE, OR SOME SORT OF VTAGE MCTEEN VENDG MACHE. NOW THAT THEY’VE GOT A GAY, THEY HAVE AN EDGY, -URANT “PROBLEM” AROUND WHICH THEY N BUILD SOMETHG THAT ULD POTENTIALLY REMBLE A PLOT. (ATTENTN STG DIRECTORS: KELLAN LUTZ WOULD MAKE A GREAT KEV, PECIALLY IF HE TAK LOTS OF SHOWERS.)WHO’S HE GOG TO GET WH? IN KEV'S GURAL ISSUE, VERONI GO ALL BONKERS FOR THE SUPER-CREAMY NEWER, AND HE HAS TO LET HER DOWN EASY BY EXPLAG THAT, WHEN TO BREAKFAST, HE PREFERS LKS OVER PATTI. SPEAKG OF MEAT, THIS LEAV KEV SURVEYG THE BUFFET THE BOYS’ LOCKER ROOM FOR A LIKELY SNACK. LET’S EXAME THE OFFERGS AND TRY TO TERME WHERE THE FOOD PYRAMID HE SHOULD SK HIS TEETH.ARCHIE. IS THE WHOLE MENAGE-A-TROIS ANY REALLY JT AN OVER-PENSATORY SMOKCREEN? EVEN IF, AS MOR HAS , ARCHIE JT LIKE TO WATCH, GIVEN HIS BRAH-TASTIC FAD-JEANS-AND-UNTUCKED-SHIRT ENSEMBLE, MY GAYDAR SAYS,“NO.”JUGHEAD. HIS DORKY CROWN READS AS MORE "PRCE" THAN "QUEEN," AND I THK WE ALL KNOW WHAT THE KIDS WERE REALLY REFERRG TO WHEN THEY NICKNAMED HIM NEEDLE NOSE. KEV SAYS, "PASS."REGGIE. HE’S HANDSOME, ATHLETIC, AND HAS THE BIEBER-QUE “HOT BOVER." ALSO, HE LOV TO PULL PRANKS, LIKE OTHER FAMOLY EFFETE TRICKSTERS (BUGS BUNNY, PK PANTHER, JACK SPARROW, TYLER PERRY). BUT WOULD NEARLY 70 YEARS OF ONE-NOTE PLOTL IF HE SUDNLY WASN’T PETG FOR VERONI’S AMORO ATTENTNS, AND THEN WHAT WOULD THE IC BE ABOUT?MOOSE. AN ALL-STAR ATHLETE WHO’S AS SWEET AS A KTEN: TOTAL THREE-BEER-QUEER. I SEE A SENR YEAR FILLED WH DNKEN TANGL THE BACK OF A TCK. BUT MOOSE’S BLACKOUT EXPERIMENTATN AND SHAMEFUL MONDAY MORNG IGNOMY ISN’T THE LOVE KEV SEEKS OR SERV.DILTON. HE’S A BPECTACLED BRAIAC WHO IS ALWAYS READY TO HELP “TUTOR” OTHER STUNTS—PECIALLY MOOSE. A NTERED PEOPLE PLEASER, HE SEEMS LIKE HE’D BE WILLG TO DO WHATEVER TAK TO GA SOCIAL PAL. KEV MIGHT PLUCK A FEW ELEMENTS OM HIS PERDIC TABLE, BUT WOULD PROBABLY QUICKLY TIRE OF HIS SPERATE BOTTOM ACT.CHUCK. HE’S BLACK, HE’S SHAPE, HE’S AN ARTIST, AND—ACRDG TO HIS ONLE B—HIS GIRLIEND NANCY OFTEN GETS PISSED AT “TAKG A BACK SEAT TO HIS OTHER TERTS.” SISTER, I HATE TO BE THE ONE TO BREAK TO YOU, BUT YOUR MAN IS ON THE DL. GAY AND TERRACIAL! THIS IS JT THE KD OF HEAT THE ARCHIE BRAND NEEDS TO MAKE RELEVANT FOR GENERATN G (GAGA, GLEE, AND GOSSIP GIRL). CHUCKY GETS LUCKY![IMAG: ARCHIE COMIC PUBLITNS INC.]BRETT BERK WR GAILY ABOUT CULTURE, POLICS, AND RS FOR , AND IS THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE’S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD2023 FALL PREVIEW: 46 FILMS TO WATCH OUT FORBY REBEC FORDBRETT BERK
• ‘ALL THE FAY’: INSI THE EARLY EPISO THAT CHALLENGED ARCHIE BUNKER’S VIEW OF GAY PEOPLE
• ARCHIE, BELOVED IC BOOK IN, DI SAVG GAY IEND

IS ARCHIE FROM RIVERDALE GAY IN REAL LIFE? WIKI, BGRAPHY, AGE, SPOE, NET WORTH, FAST FACTS

Related: Archie Comics’ gay pal Kev Keller is gettg married.

YOU THK 'RIVERDALE' IS WILD? WA TIL YOU HEAR ABOUT ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SASA'S GAY ARCHIE PLAY

In 2010, Archie Comics troduced the first-ever gay character s seri’ 70 year history, Kev Keller. From the murr of her tw to gay 'cure' therapy, Cheryl saw her fair share of tragedy before fdg support her relatnship wh Toni. Then there's Joaqu himself, who had long shown var dimensns to his sexualy through his velopg relatnship wh the openly gay Kev Keller – before he was murred, anyway.

In Riverdale, men n be gay, straight or anythg Riverdale for bisexual+ characters isn't always all 's cracked up to be, though. Chic's often flirtat behavur masks ambiguo motiv, leadg many to qutn whether he might be 'gay-for-pay', livg out elaborate fantasi to earn money and rmatn.

WHO IS ARCHIE GAY CHARACTER?

Riverdale has plenty more work to do s reprentatn of bisexual+ men but is at least tryg to show that men and women the world today n be gay, straight, pansexual, bisexual and everythg between. Addnally, Archie has served as a sergeant the Army and has functned as an RROTC tor his high Archie om Riverdale gay real life? Dpe untls gossip, Archie om Riverdale isn’t actually gay.

Siarly, Archie is not gay Riverdale eher. Th, the gay stori about the Riverdale entertaer n be exced until further om Riverdale His Superpowers and Weird Mysteri Archie has gaed an amazg followg due to his unique personaly and superpowers the seri. Well, at the time the theater's artistic director Sean Daniels said "Archie Comics thought if Archie was portrayed as beg gay, that would dilute and tarnish his image.

And was bee he ma Archie gay? It reimaged Archie as a gay teen and llege stunt makg his way through the world.

ARCHIE GAY MARRIAGE IC SELLS OUT FACE OF BOYTT LL

Mixg fact wh fictn, Ryan Murphy's Hollywood is a revisnist tale of Goln Age Hollywood that pos the qutn: what if homophobia and racism hadn't stonewalled the reers of so many margalized creativ?

You see this play out wh Jeremy Pope's character, Archie, a gay, Black man who aspir to be a big name screenwrer. He storms out after refg to have sex wh a male client, and ignorantly headhunts Archie at a gay adult cema by... at arms, wh some wonrg their favore bumblg character had to be gay and others embracg the ia.

ARCHIE GO GAYBY BRETT BERKAPRIL 26, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHE GANG AT ARCHIE COMICS, ONE OF THE WORLD’S LONGT-NNG AND MOST POPULAR IC BOOKS EVER, HAS FALLY CID TO QUEER THGS UP A LTLE. THIS FALL, AN OPENLY GAY TEENAGER, KEV KELLER—A HUNKY YOUNG TRANSFER STUNT WH A SQUARE JAW AND A FURROWED BLOND HAIRDO THAT LOOKS NOT UNLIKE A GILD RO MIRROR AME—WILL ENROLL AT RIVERDALE HIGH, IMMEDIATELY DRAWG THE ATTENTN OF BOYS AND GIRLS ALIKE. I SEE THIS AS FURTHER EVINCE OF GLEE’S FLUENCE AS THE GAYT THG TO H THE MASTREAM SCE MANSPG (AND THE PENULTIMATE STEP THE HOMOSEXUAL TAKEOVER OF AMERI). NOW THAT CHRIS COLFER (“KURT”) IS THE NATN’S SWEETHEART, EVERY NOCENT BASTN OF TEENAGER-DOM IS STGGLG TO GET S OWN LTLE HOMO. OBVLY, I SUPPORT THIS ENAVOR. GAY KIDS ARE EVERYWHERE, AND THEY SERVE TO SEE THEMSELV STEREOTYPILLY PORTRAYED AS HOT, POPULAR, BODY-OBSSED, VAPID, AND TWO-DIMENSNAL JT LIKE EVERY OTHER PICTN OF YOUNG PEOPLE POPULAR CULTURE. BUT THIS KEV CHARACTER BEGS A FEW QUTNS ABOUT THE ARCHIE-VERSE.1) IS HE REALLY FIRST? THE LAST TIME I READ AN ARCHIE IC, I WAS PROBABLY ABOUT EIGHT. THEY HAD THEM THE WAG AREA OF THIS WEIRD FAY RTRANT WE ED TO GO TO SUBURBAN DETRO LLED BILL KNAPP'S, WHERE THEY SERVED THIS TENDON-Y CHICKEN AND BISCUS, AND WHERE YOU ULD GET A EE CHOLATE KE IF YOU ME ON YOUR BIRTHDAY. ANYWAY, AS FAR AS I N REMEMBER, THE ENTIRE PLOT OF NEARLY EVERY STORYLE REVOLVED AROUND AN IMPLIED THREE-WAY BETWEEN THE EPONYMO ARCHIE, BTE HEIRS VERONI, AND FLAXEN-HAIRED GIRL-NEXT-DOOR BETTY. MAYBE GIRL-ON-GIRL ACTN LIKE THIS DON’T UNT AS "GAY." OR MAYBE, SCE THE LADI NEVER OFFICIALLY CLARED THEMSELV TO BE LBIANS, KEV IS THE FIRST OUT GAY CHARACTER.WHEN’S THE MOVIE G OUT? ARCHIE HAS BEEN LEFT LANGUISHG WHILE LERALLY EVERY OTHER IC BOOK EVER WRTEN—AND SOME THAT AREN’T EVEN FISHED YET—HAS BEEN MA TO A MAJOR MOTN PICTURE. WHY? BEE THE SERI IS ENTIRELY LACKG BLOOD-SPLATTERG VLENCE, BROODG AND PRSIVE PROTAGONISTS, SK-TIGHT STUM, ERSATZ SUPERPOWERS, HTS AT SEXUAL ISSN, OR NE YEAR-OLDS NSTANTLY SAYG CUNT AND MOTHER-FUCKER LIKE THEY HAVE A TOURETTIAN TIC. INSTEAD, ’S ABOUT A BUNCH OF SIPID, AVERAGE FOOLS WHO DON’T DO ANYTHG BUT DRIVE AROUND, DRK ICE CREAM SODAS, AND OTHERWISE ACT LIKE THEY JT PED OM A DULLED-DOWN VERSN OF BETTY DRAPER’S ADOLCENCE, OR SOME SORT OF VTAGE MCTEEN VENDG MACHE. NOW THAT THEY’VE GOT A GAY, THEY HAVE AN EDGY, -URANT “PROBLEM” AROUND WHICH THEY N BUILD SOMETHG THAT ULD POTENTIALLY REMBLE A PLOT. (ATTENTN STG DIRECTORS: KELLAN LUTZ WOULD MAKE A GREAT KEV, PECIALLY IF HE TAK LOTS OF SHOWERS.)WHO’S HE GOG TO GET WH? IN KEV'S GURAL ISSUE, VERONI GO ALL BONKERS FOR THE SUPER-CREAMY NEWER, AND HE HAS TO LET HER DOWN EASY BY EXPLAG THAT, WHEN TO BREAKFAST, HE PREFERS LKS OVER PATTI. SPEAKG OF MEAT, THIS LEAV KEV SURVEYG THE BUFFET THE BOYS’ LOCKER ROOM FOR A LIKELY SNACK. LET’S EXAME THE OFFERGS AND TRY TO TERME WHERE THE FOOD PYRAMID HE SHOULD SK HIS TEETH.ARCHIE. IS THE WHOLE MENAGE-A-TROIS ANY REALLY JT AN OVER-PENSATORY SMOKCREEN? EVEN IF, AS MOR HAS , ARCHIE JT LIKE TO WATCH, GIVEN HIS BRAH-TASTIC FAD-JEANS-AND-UNTUCKED-SHIRT ENSEMBLE, MY GAYDAR SAYS,“NO.”JUGHEAD. HIS DORKY CROWN READS AS MORE "PRCE" THAN "QUEEN," AND I THK WE ALL KNOW WHAT THE KIDS WERE REALLY REFERRG TO WHEN THEY NICKNAMED HIM NEEDLE NOSE. KEV SAYS, "PASS."REGGIE. HE’S HANDSOME, ATHLETIC, AND HAS THE BIEBER-QUE “HOT BOVER." ALSO, HE LOV TO PULL PRANKS, LIKE OTHER FAMOLY EFFETE TRICKSTERS (BUGS BUNNY, PK PANTHER, JACK SPARROW, TYLER PERRY). BUT WOULD NEARLY 70 YEARS OF ONE-NOTE PLOTL IF HE SUDNLY WASN’T PETG FOR VERONI’S AMORO ATTENTNS, AND THEN WHAT WOULD THE IC BE ABOUT?MOOSE. AN ALL-STAR ATHLETE WHO’S AS SWEET AS A KTEN: TOTAL THREE-BEER-QUEER. I SEE A SENR YEAR FILLED WH DNKEN TANGL THE BACK OF A TCK. BUT MOOSE’S BLACKOUT EXPERIMENTATN AND SHAMEFUL MONDAY MORNG IGNOMY ISN’T THE LOVE KEV SEEKS OR SERV.DILTON. HE’S A BPECTACLED BRAIAC WHO IS ALWAYS READY TO HELP “TUTOR” OTHER STUNTS—PECIALLY MOOSE. A NTERED PEOPLE PLEASER, HE SEEMS LIKE HE’D BE WILLG TO DO WHATEVER TAK TO GA SOCIAL PAL. KEV MIGHT PLUCK A FEW ELEMENTS OM HIS PERDIC TABLE, BUT WOULD PROBABLY QUICKLY TIRE OF HIS SPERATE BOTTOM ACT.CHUCK. HE’S BLACK, HE’S SHAPE, HE’S AN ARTIST, AND—ACRDG TO HIS ONLE B—HIS GIRLIEND NANCY OFTEN GETS PISSED AT “TAKG A BACK SEAT TO HIS OTHER TERTS.” SISTER, I HATE TO BE THE ONE TO BREAK TO YOU, BUT YOUR MAN IS ON THE DL. GAY AND TERRACIAL! THIS IS JT THE KD OF HEAT THE ARCHIE BRAND NEEDS TO MAKE RELEVANT FOR GENERATN G (GAGA, GLEE, AND GOSSIP GIRL). CHUCKY GETS LUCKY![IMAG: ARCHIE COMIC PUBLITNS INC.]BRETT BERK WR GAILY ABOUT CULTURE, POLICS, AND RS FOR , AND IS THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE’S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD2023 FALL PREVIEW: 46 FILMS TO WATCH OUT FORBY REBEC FORDBRETT BERK

Keller was the gay character when the producers sought to revamp the show. Explore the Archie Comics Gay Character Onle. gay.

If you are a gay man yourself, you probably had a chance at ic books like Archie and. Th, when gay characters are troduced, be remarkably easier to enjoy the books, regardls of.

‘ALL THE FAY’: INSI THE EARLY EPISO THAT CHALLENGED ARCHIE BUNKER’S VIEW OF GAY PEOPLE

Explore Newer Edns of Gay Archie Comics Onle. The versns embrace the gay muny wholeheartedly, much to the displeasure of homophob around the. The addn of Kev brought wh the first gay weddg this ic book history.

The cln of gay characters don't volve Archie per se. Now that we know there are two profoundly gay characters Archie ics, Kev, we need to.

ARCHIE, BELOVED IC BOOK IN, DI SAVG GAY IEND

Could Jughead be gay Archie ics? Also, Jughead uld have been a h for Kev, who is gay.

Gay Kev beiends veroni, beg bt iends while Archie seems to hop om one. Dpe attempts by a nservative Amerin mothers' group to have pulled om sale, the new Archie ic, which featur a gay marriage, has jt sold out.

Its publisher scribed the marriage of Kev Keller, the seri' first gay character, the latt issue as "a historic moment", announcg yterday that the Life wh Archie #16 had sold strong sal follow a ll om the Amerin Fay Associatn's webse One Milln Moms for Toys R Us to stop sellg the new Archie issue. Homosexualy is a topic which is "too plited" for children to unrstand, say the mothers, and "a trip to the toy store turns to a premature discsn on sexual orientatn and is pletely unlled for" Archie Comics -chief executive John Goldwater has said that the pany "stands by" the new issue. "Announcg yterday that the Kev Keller issue had sold out, Goldwater said that Archie's fans "have e out full force to support" the gay character.