Archie Died 'Savg His Gay Friend,' but Tokenistic Promotn Mars His Sacrifice

Contents:

• ARCHIE TO BE SHOT SAVG GAY IEND IC BOOK
• ARCHIE DIED 'SAVG HIS GAY FRIEND,' BUT TOKENISTIC PROMOTN MARS HIS SACRIFICE
• IN HIS FAL MOMENT, ARCHIE TAK A BULLET FOR HIS GAY FRIEND
• IN HIS FAL MOMENT, ARCHIE TAK A BULLET FOR HIS GAY FRIEND
• IN HIS FAL MOMENT, ARCHIE TAK A BULLET FOR HIS GAY FRIEND
• ARCHIE DI SAVG GAY FRIEND
• ARCHIE’S DEATH: DIES SAVING HIS GAY FRIEND
• ARCHIE ANDREWS DEAD: COMIC HERO SHOT SAVG GAY FRIEND KEV KELLER
• ARCHIE TO BE SHOT SAVG GAY FRIEND
• ‘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
• ARCHIE TO DIE SAVG GAY FRIEND FROM GUNSHOT

ARCHIE TO BE SHOT SAVG GAY IEND IC BOOK

Archie Andrews will die takg a bullet for his gay bt famo eckle-faced ic book in is meetg his mise Wednday's stallment of "Life wh Archie" when he terven an assassatn attempt on Kev Keller, Archie Comics' first openly gay character. Earlier this week, the reason for that ath me to light: Archie would take a bullet for Kev Keller, his bt gay iend. He’s fely after Kev, a married senator-elect wh big anti-gun plans after another shooter targeted gay victims the nearby Southport Mall.

But ’s unclear whether this shooter is a pro-gun nut or an anti-gay bigot – or is clear is this: The promotn for this issue, mostly done through terviews wh the Associated Prs picked up wh ls subtle headl elsewhere, has been unfortunately foced on Kev’s sexualy. Archie was savg Kev, his gay iend.

ARCHIE DIED 'SAVG HIS GAY FRIEND,' BUT TOKENISTIC PROMOTN MARS HIS SACRIFICE

“Gay wasn’t always fashn, my iend, ” she says. And she’s right: Not long ago, havg a gay character a piece of popular fictn – hell, even havg a protagonist associatg wh gay characters – was nsired shockg.

Now, Archie savg his gay iend is a marketg peg. Isn’t good that Lady Gaga n wre an anthem about gay people beg born that way? Or that two teen gay characters n fall love on Glee?

Or that Macklemore and Queen Latifah n marry gay upl at the GRAMMYs while tellg all the haters that “’s all the same love”? SMH Kev Keller is more than "Archie's gay iend. But headl like “Comic-book in Archie Andrews will die savg gay iend” do the same thg to Kev.

IN HIS FAL MOMENT, ARCHIE TAK A BULLET FOR HIS GAY FRIEND

It’s jt disappotg that for whatever reason – low ic sal or a culture makg gay the Next Big Thg – his ath had to be sold wh a tacky label article was origally published at more om The Wire • In Praise of Marie and Js, the Bt Couple 'When Harry Met Sally... Appearg 2010, the ic’s “Veroni” spoff, he was the seri’ first gay character.

After a 75-year n, the ma character of Archie Comics will die takg a bullet for his gay bt iend.

In the Wednday issue of Life Wh Archie, Archie Andrews terven durg an assassatn attempt on Kev Keller, the ic’s first openly gay character and a newly elected senator phg for gun ntrol. Archie, the much-loved inic Amerin ic book character, will be killed off this week after he sav his gay iend, Kev Keller, om a gunman. Keller was troduced to the inic Amerin ic strip 2010 as s first gay character.

IN HIS FAL MOMENT, ARCHIE TAK A BULLET FOR HIS GAY FRIEND

Maybe that viral story about redheads gog extct wasn’t a plete hoax after Andrews, star of the long-nng Archie Comics universe, will take a bullet on Wednday a fearls leap to save his gay iend om an assassatn attempt.

IN HIS FAL MOMENT, ARCHIE TAK A BULLET FOR HIS GAY FRIEND

The 73-year-old character’s impendg ath was first announced April when Jon Goldwater, -CEO of Archie Comics Publitns Inc., said an terview wh CNN that Riverdale’s famo gger will go out a hero “Life wh Archie, ” which explor Archie’s life as an Monday, Goldwater told the Associated Prs that Archie will thwart an assassatn attempt on Kev Keller, the ic’s first openly gay character.

ARCHIE DI SAVG GAY FRIEND

In a Redd AMA last year, Keller’s creator, Dan Parent, “thanked” the homophobic group for boostg ’s mise will take place “Life wh Archie” No.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Archie Andrews will die takg a bullet for his gay bt iend. The famo eckle-faced ic book in is meetg his mise Wednday's stallment of "Life wh Archie" when he terven an assassatn attempt on Kev Keller, Archie Comics' first openly gay character. One example is episo five, “Judgg Books by Covers, ” which prented an unexpected take on the subject of homosexualy — at a time that nobody was alg wh .

The All the Fay wiki offers up this plot scriptn: “Archie thks he knows a homosexual when he se one and when Mike v his flamboyant photographer iend Roger (Anthony Geary) to the Bunker hoehold, Archie tomatilly assum that Mike’s iend is a “flamer. ” Retreatg to the safety of Kelcy’s Bar, Archie choos to spend time wh his “he-man” pals, notably his old arm-wrtlg crony Steve (Philip Carey), who, when hearg about Roger, reveals himself to be gay — which Archie never spected.

ARCHIE’S DEATH: DIES SAVING HIS GAY FRIEND

Televisn historian and thor Jim Colucci, who is currently -wrg wh Norman Lear a 50th-anniversary book voted to All the Fay, ments, “This was a brand new show g blazg out of the gate, bee if they were gog to tackle touchy issu 1971, gay reprentatn was certaly among the touchit. Jim mentns that when he wrote his book Goln Girls Forever, he mented that the first regular gay character on televisn was the short-lived s The Corner Bar, which aired 1972. Gay liberatn and Stonewall had been 1969, so certaly was somethg the world was talkg about.

And the gay muny had started to fd s very nascent voice, but wasn’t beg reprented mastream media and certaly not on televisn.

ARCHIE ANDREWS DEAD: COMIC HERO SHOT SAVG GAY FRIEND KEV KELLER

“Not only did they have gay reprentatn, but they also were breakg the harmful stereotyp that were the only thg that day and age people knew about gay people. In 1971 people probably thought all gay people were ty, feme, limp-wristed men wh lisps — jt all the stereotyp.

While any stereotype has some tth, what the episo took pas to show is that never tells you whether Roger, Mike’s iend who wears the ast and is very boistero, and ee talks wh his hands, is gay or not. But what do show is that the macho man, the nfirmed bachelor who’s an arm wrtler and big and beefy, and a former play player, whom Archie idoliz and hangs out wh the bar all the time, has been gay all the years.

“So there was jt so much that the show did, ” Jim pots out, “to give reprentatn to a gay character, which would have been ground breakg enough, but also showed multi-dimensns to what beg gay meant.

ARCHIE TO BE SHOT SAVG GAY FRIEND

Kev Keller, the seri’ first openly gay character.

We’ve known sce April that this month’s issue of the seri—which is set the future and featur an adult Archie, pals and gals—would feature the ath of the character once known as Ameri’s favore teenager, but the publisher has now revealed what’s behd his ath: He is shot while savg Kev Keller, the gay character troduced 2010, om an assassatn attempt brought about bee of his views on gun ntrol. Not only did the very troductn of Keller the Veroni tle lead to an angry rponse om some, but his 2012 marriage led to threats of a boytt om nservative group One Milln Moms (Thankfully, sold out anyway; followg the sell-out, Marvel announced s own gay weddg).

‘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

ARCHIE TO DIE SAVG GAY FRIEND FROM GUNSHOT