Kev Keller is Archie Comics' New Gay Superhero The Equalizer - IGN

Contents:

• ‘ALL THE FAY’: INSI THE EARLY EPISO THAT CHALLENGED ARCHIE BUNKER’S VIEW OF GAY PEOPLE
• WHO IS ARCHIE GAY CHARACTER?
• GAYT EPISO EVER: HOW ‘ALL THE FAY’ GAVE US OUR FIRST GAY S CHARACTER
• KEV KELLER IS ARCHIE COMICS' NEW GAY SUPERHERO THE EQUALIZER
• JT MARRIED: ARCHIE COMICS’ FIRST GAY CHARACTER WEDS DOCTOR BE
• THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF ARCHIE COMICS' GAY CHARACTER

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

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 .

WHO IS ARCHIE GAY CHARACTER?

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. 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.

GAYT EPISO EVER: HOW ‘ALL THE FAY’ GAVE US OUR FIRST GAY S CHARACTER

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. “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.

KEV KELLER IS ARCHIE COMICS' NEW GAY SUPERHERO THE EQUALIZER

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.

Related: Archie Comics’ gay pal Kev Keller is gettg married. In 2010, Archie Comics troduced the first-ever gay character s seri’ 70 year history, Kev Keller.

JT MARRIED: ARCHIE COMICS’ FIRST GAY CHARACTER WEDS DOCTOR BE

at arms, wh some wonrg their favore bumblg character had to be gay and others embracg the ia. 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.

THE TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF ARCHIE COMICS' GAY CHARACTER

Th, when gay characters are troduced, be remarkably easier to enjoy the books, regardls of. Explore Newer Edns of Gay Archie Comics Onle. The versns embrace the gay muny wholeheartedly, much to the displeasure of homophob around the.

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