In s earlit days, one of the ntroversial topics 'All the Fay' tackled was Archie Bunker's view of gay reprentatn.
Contents:
- YOU THK 'RIVERDALE' IS WILD? WA TIL YOU HEAR ABOUT ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SASA'S GAY ARCHIE PLAY
- WHO IS ARCHIE GAY CHARACTER?
- ‘ALL THE FAY’: INSI THE EARLY EPISO THAT CHALLENGED ARCHIE BUNKER’S VIEW OF GAY PEOPLE
- IN HIS FAL MOMENT, ARCHIE TAK A BULLET FOR HIS GAY FRIEND
- ARCHIE GAY MARRIAGE IC SELLS OUT FACE OF BOYTT LL
- ARCHIE, BELOVED IC BOOK IN, DI SAVG GAY IEND
YOU THK 'RIVERDALE' IS WILD? WA TIL YOU HEAR ABOUT ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SASA'S GAY ARCHIE PLAY
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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. 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.
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WHO IS ARCHIE GAY CHARACTER?
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‘ALL THE FAY’: INSI THE EARLY EPISO THAT CHALLENGED ARCHIE BUNKER’S VIEW OF GAY PEOPLE
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. 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. 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 .
IN HIS FAL MOMENT, ARCHIE TAK A BULLET FOR HIS GAY FRIEND
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.
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 GAY MARRIAGE IC SELLS OUT FACE OF BOYTT LL
“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.
ARCHIE, BELOVED IC BOOK IN, DI SAVG GAY IEND
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. Appearg 2010, the ic’s “Veroni” spoff, he was the seri’ first gay character. 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.