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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

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?

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

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

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ARCHIE GAY MARRIAGE IC SELLS OUT FACE OF BOYTT LL

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ARCHIE, BELOVED IC BOOK IN, DI SAVG GAY IEND

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.

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