Velma Is Fally Gay the New Soby-Doo Film

VELMA IS FALLY GAY THE NEW SOBY-DOO FILM
THE GAY HISTORY OF VELMA ‘SOBY-DOO’SAPPHIC SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU?FANS HAVE REGNIZED THE INIC “SOBY-DOO” NERD’S QUEERNS FOREVER. IT JT TOOK UNTIL NOW FOR EVERYONE ELSE TO OPENLY EMBRACE —CLUDG THE ANCHISE SELF. ALANI VARGASFREELANCE WRERUPDATED JAN. 15, 2023 2:49AM EST / PUBLISHED JAN. 14, 2023 7:08PM EST ILLTRATN BY ELIZABETH BROCKWAY/THE DAILY BEASTIMAGE A WORLD WHERE YOU’RE A LBIAN. NOW IMAGE YOU’RE THE ONLY LBIAN AT A FAY FUNCTN. AND SPE THE FACT THAT YOU DON’T HI YOUR LBIANISM, PEOPLE KEEP ASKG ABOUT A FUTURE BOYIEND OR FAIL TO REMEMBER WHO YOUR LONG-TERM GIRLIEND IS. FSTRATG, I KNOW. BUT THAT’S KD OF WHAT HAPPENED TO SOBY-DOO’S VELMA DKLEY. EXCEPT STEAD OF A FAY FUNCTN, ’S S OF TV AND MOVI, AND STEAD OF “FETFUL” FAY MEMBERS, VELMA HAD STUD EXECS DISTANCG THEMSELV OM THE FACT THAT SHE’S BEEN PURPOSELY QUEER-D FOR YEARS. SOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU?PICTURELUX / THE HOLLYWOOD ARCHIVE / ALAMY Y, VELMA IS A RTOON CHARACTER, WHOSE ROOTS DATE BACK TO 1969, THE ORIGAL HANNA-BARBERA SOBY-DOO SERI. BUT EVEN THE 1970S WERE NO MATCH FOR HER HERENT SAPPHIC NATURE, LIKE KNOWG WHAT DAPHNE’S MOANS SOUND LIKE. SUBTLE L LIKE THAT, OR THE FACT THAT VELMA NEVER REALLY HAD A LONG-LASTG LOVE TERT, ARE WHAT GOT—AND HAS KEPT—THE LBIAN HEADNONS ROLLG. IF WE N’T GET GAY REPRENTATN, WE’LL CREATE , AND THAT PECIALLY GO FOR LBIANS. BUT VELMA BEG GAY ISN’T JT SOMETHG QUEER PEOPLE’S MDS. IN ADDN TO HER FUNNY MENTS THE 1970S, CREATORS HAVE BEEN TRYG TO PORTRAY VELMA AS OPENLY GAY FOR S. TAKE THE H LIVE-ACTN SOBY-DOO MOVIE, FOR STANCE. RELEASE 2002, STARRED A STACKED ST OF ACTORS, CLUDG SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR AS DAPHNE, FREDDIE PRZE, JR., AS FRED, MATTHEW LILLARD AS SHAGGY, AND LDA CARLLI AS VELMA. JAM GUNN, WHO WROTE THE SCRIPT, HAS BEEN OPEN ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE ORIGALLY WROTE THE MOVIE FOR ADULTS—AND THAT ONE KEY PART OF THE ORIGAL NCEPT CLUD VELMA BEG A LBIAN. WARNER BROS. IN 2020, A FAN ON TWTER URGED GUNN TO MAKE A THIRD SOBY-DOO MOVIE, THIS TIME FEATURG A QUEER VELMA. ACRDG TO INDIEWIRE, THE FILMMAKER TWEETED BACK THAT HE TRIED TO DO THIS ONCE BEFORE. “IN 2001 VELMA WAS EXPLICLY GAY MY IAL SCRIPT,” HE WROTE A NOW-LETED REPLY. “BUT THE STUD JT KEPT WATERG DOWN AND WATERG DOWN, BEG AMBIGUO (THE VERSN SHOT), THEN NOTHG (THE RELEASED VERSN), AND FALLY HAVG A BOYIEND (THE SEQUEL).”DPE STG SETH GREEN AS A LOVE TERT FOR CARLLI’S VELMA, 2004’S SOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED ALSO FEATURED A FATLY HOMOEROTIC ENERGY BETWEEN DAPHNE AND VELMA. IT WAS A TENSN THAT YOUNG SAPPHICS KNOW WELL: MON TEENAGE FEELGS FOR CLOSE FEMALE IENDS BEFORE REALIZG THEY’RE GAY. BUT GOG BACK TO THE FIRST MOVIE, YOU N STILL SPOT POSSIBLE HTS GUNN WAS ABLE TO LEAVE THE SCRIPT (BUT NOT THE FAL CUT) TO VELMA’S QUEERNS. ONE LETED SCENE SHOWS VELMA “DNK” ON SOME NON-ALHOLIC DRKS AT A SPOOKY ISLAND BAR, SGG A RENDN OF “CAN'T TAKE MY EY OFF YOU” BY FRANKIE VALLI. HER MOMENT AS A BARET SGER STARTS WHEN SHE SPOTS DAPHNE G DOWN THE STAIRS. GRANTED, FRED WAS G DOWN AT THE SAME TIME TOO. BUT NSIRG GUNN TEND FOR VELMA TO BE “EXPLICLY GAY,” ’S EASY TO IMAGE THAT “DNK” VELMA WAS HER FEELS ABOUT AN UNREQUED CSH ON DAPHNE BLAKE. THAT WAS OVER 20 YEARS AGO, AND SCE THEN, WE’VE MET ANOTHER, EVEN GAYER ERATN OF VELMA. TONY CERVONE, THE -CREATOR OF THE 2010 RTOON SOBY-DOO! MYSTERY INRPORATED, WROTE A JUNE 2020 POST THAT HIS TEAM WROTE VELMA AS GAY. “WE MA OUR TENTNS AS CLEAR AS WE ULD TEN YEARS AGO,” THE POST READS. SOBY-DOO! MYSTERY INRPORATEDWARNER BROS. IN THIS SERI, VELMA HAS A CLOSE IEND NAMED MARCIE WHOM MANY FANS SHIPPED HER WH, EVEN THOUGH THEY WEREN’T OUTWARDLY TOGETHER ON THE SHOW. “MOST OF OUR FANS GOT ,” CERVONE WROTE. “TO THOSE THAT DIDN’T, I SUGGT YOU LOOK CLOSER. THERE’S NO NEW NEWS HERE.” AND ACRDG TO SCREENSHOTS OM OUT MAGAZE, BEFORE CERVONE TURNED HIS MENTS OFF, HE REPLIED TO A ER CLARIFYG THAT VELMA IS “NOT BI. SHE’S GAY.” THAT’S WHY SHE ULDN’T STA HER ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP WH SHAGGY, WHICH VELMA SAID ALWAYS FELT OFF TO HER THIS SERI. TRICK OR TREAT SOBY DOO!WARNER BROS. THAT WHOLE JOURNEY TOWARD OPEN QUEERNS CULMAT VELMA DKLEY BEG UNDOUBTEDLY GAY OCTOBER 2022’S TRICK OR TREAT SOBY-DOO!, A 75-MUTE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL. WHEN VELMA FIRST LOCKS EY ON CO DIABLO, SHE STUTTERS AND SHUTS DOWN, LEAVG ONLY BLHG CHEEKS AND FOGGED-UP GLASS HER WAKE. VELMA ADMS TO DAPHNE LATER ON THAT SHE’S “CSHG BIG TIME.” THERE’S NO QUEER-DG NEED HERE; THIS FILM, VELMA DKLEY IS A BIG OL’ LBIAN, WHICH IS ONLY SOLIDIFIED BY HER PARALYZG FEAR ABOUT WHAT TO DO WH A NEW CSH. THIS WASN’T SHOCKG TO THE MANY FANS WHO HAD LONG THOUGHT OF VELMA AS A LBIAN, ALTHOUGH WAS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED AND CELEBRATED. THAT IS PECIALLY TE FOR THE ACTRS WHO HAD THE CHANCE TO EMBODY VELMA RECENT YEARS. A MONTH AFTER THE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL’S RELEASE, LDA CARLLI PRAISED THE CHARACTER VELOPMENT AN ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY TERVIEW. IT WAS “GREAT THAT ’S FALLY OUT THERE,” SHE SAID, NOTG THAT VELMA’S LBIANISM HAD “BEEN HTED AT SO MANY TIM.”LBIAN J HERSELF, SGER/ACTRS HAYLEY KIYOKO, ALSO PRAISED VELMA’S OVERDUE G-OUT MOMENT. IN SEVERAL TWEETS, KIYOKO REMISCED ABOUT HER TIME VOICG VELMA, BACK 2009 AND 2010. “I REMEMBER BOOKG [THE VOICE ROLE OF] VELMA 2008. IT WAS MY FIRST BIG ROLE A MOVIE,” SHE TWEETED OCTOBER, RPONSE TO THE REVEAL THAT VELMA WAS NOW OUT. “I ALSO REMEMBER THKG ‘I WONR IF THEY KNOW THEY HIRED A LBIAN AS VELMA’ HERE WE ARE, 14 YEARS LATER…” KIYOKO ALSO WENT ON TO TWEET THAT “I FEEL ALIVE AND SEEN,” WHEN A FAN ASKED HOW SHE WAS DOG FOLLOWG VELMA’S OPEN LBIANISM. AND THAT, RIGHT THERE, IS PROBABLY THE BT AND MOST SUCCCT SCRIPTN OF WHY VELMA’S QUEERNS BEG NFIRMED IS SUCH A BIG AL. THE TOPIC OF WHY REPRENTATN MATTERS IS A ROUTE NVERSATN AT THIS POT. BUT MARGALIZED MUNI NTUE TO TALK ABOUT , BEE IS SUCH A VALIDATG EXPERIENCE TO SEE YOURSELF ON SCREEN. IT’S SIGNIFINT TO SEE YOUR SEXUALY, SPECIFILLY, PORTRAYED AS NORMAL AND SWEET BEE THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT IS, JT LIKE STRAIGHT CSH ARE ON-SCREEN. VELMA REPRENTED THAT AWKWARD GIRL WHO DON’T F BUT NEVER TRI TOO HARD TO DO SO, EHER. OUTSI OF A FEW BIG EXCEPTNS (LIKE THE LEATHER ORANGE JUMPSU OM MONSTERS UNLEASHED THAT AWAKENED MANY PEOPLE’S SEXUALI), VELMA IS FE LIVG HER “WEIRDNS” OF BEG THE GIRL WH A NASALLY, NERDY VOICE, BIG SWEATER, AND GLASS. SHE NEVER FELT RIGHT DATG MEN, BUT SHE OF URSE CRAVED SOME LEVEL OF MALE VALIDATN; LBIANS OLD AND YOUNG STILL AL WH THAT TOO. BUT UNR ALL, SHE WAS JT A LBIAN WHO WASN’T GIVEN THE FOOTG SHE NEED TO E OUT. WH LBIANS AND QUEER PEOPLE CLGG ONTO VELMA’S QUEER-D CHARACTER FOR S, HER “G OUT” WAS A DREAM E TE FOR HEADNON-ERS EVERYWHERE.BUT VELMA’S SIGNIFINT, LONG-AWAED G OUT ME WH (UNSURPRISG) BACKLASH. THE LRA INGRAHAMS OF THE WORLD BLEW UP ABOUT VELMA’S QUEERNS “DISPTG… BELOVED CHARACTERS,” AS THE HOSTS OF THE YOUNG TURKS PODST PUT WELL A RECENT EPISO. APPARENTLY, THERE’S “NO NOCENCE” LEFT THE WORLD WH THIS NEWT CHECKMARK THE GAY “AGENDA;” WHAT ARE STUDS GOG TO “SEXUALIZE” NEXT? “BUT APPARENTLY, SEX SELLS UNTIL YOU MAKE GAY.” DPE THE OBV AND SAD FACT THAT NSERVATIVE MENTATORS ARE GETTG SEXUAL ORIENTATN NFED WH SEXUAL SIRE, ’S TERTG THAT A FICTNAL PERSON REVEALG THAT THEY’RE LBIAN OR QUEER IS HERENTLY SEXUAL TO THE TRACTORS. AND A LOT OF MEDIA FOR CHILDREN AND FAI HAS CLUD SEXUAL JOK OF THE STRAIGHT VARIETY (LOOKG AT YOU, SHREK AND SPONGEBOB). BUT APPARENTLY, SEX SELLS UNTIL YOU MAKE GAY. VELMAHBOMAX DPE THE PHBACK, HBO MAX’S NEW, ADULT-ORIENTED RTOON VELMA, VELMA’S SAPPHIC JOURNEY LIV ON. WHILE SOME FANS ARE UNRSTANDABLY ANNOYED THAT THIS NEW ERATN OF THE CHARACTER (VOICED BY MDY KALG) HAS A CSH ON FRED (GLENN HOWERTON), THE SERI DO MAKE A POT TO NOTE THAT SHE’S A HIGH SCHOOLER FIGURG OUT HER SEXUALY. OF URSE SHE HAS THE HOTS FOR THE NVENTNALLY ATTRACTIVE JOCK. BUT VELMA ALSO HAS A NEWFOUND CSH ON A LIFELONG FEMALE IEND. (YOU N GUS WHICH ONE.)HAVG VELMA E OUT ANOTHER PART OF THE SOBY-DOO UNIVERSE AND THEN SEEMGLY “ERASG” ANOTHER MIGHT BE DISAPPOTG. BUT THE SERI DO LEAN TO THE CHARACTER’S HISTORY AND QUEERNS, WHILE ALSO GIVG FANS A LTLE SOMETHG ELSE NON THAT THEY'VE WANTED FOR S.WH OR WHOUT THE HATERS, VELMA DKLEY IS A LBIAN. AND JT AS REAL-LIFE LBIANS ARE ED TO, SHE’S GOG TO NTUALLY HAVE HER SEXUALY DIMISHED OR “FOTTEN” BEE THE GREATER SOCIETY N’T POSSIBLY IMAGE A WORLD WHERE MALE VALIDATN AND SIRE AREN’T THE MOST IMPORTANT THGS A WOMAN’S LIFE. BUT AS SURE AS VELMA’S HAB FOR SAYG “JKI” OR NOT BEG ABLE TO SEE WHOUT HER GLASS, SHE’S A LBIAN AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN. ALANI VARGAS
VELMA “SOBY-DOO” IS OFFICIALLY GAY AND FANS ARE ECSTATIC

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” have been makg the rounds on social media, wh folks g them to proclaim that the character is fally beg shown as gay. In 2020, director Jam Gunn said he tried to make the character “explicly gay” his script for the live-actn “Soby-Doo” movie.

“In 2001 Velma was explicly gay my ial script” (for 2002’s live-actn “Soby-Doo”), he tweeted at the time. In the sequel, actor Seth Green played Velma’s boyiend and there was nothg the film to imply she was gay.

THE GAY HISTORY OF VELMA ‘SOBY-DOO’SAPPHIC SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU?FANS HAVE REGNIZED THE INIC “SOBY-DOO” NERD’S QUEERNS FOREVER. IT JT TOOK UNTIL NOW FOR EVERYONE ELSE TO OPENLY EMBRACE —CLUDG THE ANCHISE SELF. ALANI VARGASFREELANCE WRERUPDATED JAN. 15, 2023 2:49AM EST / PUBLISHED JAN. 14, 2023 7:08PM EST ILLTRATN BY ELIZABETH BROCKWAY/THE DAILY BEASTIMAGE A WORLD WHERE YOU’RE A LBIAN. NOW IMAGE YOU’RE THE ONLY LBIAN AT A FAY FUNCTN. AND SPE THE FACT THAT YOU DON’T HI YOUR LBIANISM, PEOPLE KEEP ASKG ABOUT A FUTURE BOYIEND OR FAIL TO REMEMBER WHO YOUR LONG-TERM GIRLIEND IS. FSTRATG, I KNOW. BUT THAT’S KD OF WHAT HAPPENED TO SOBY-DOO’S VELMA DKLEY. EXCEPT STEAD OF A FAY FUNCTN, ’S S OF TV AND MOVI, AND STEAD OF “FETFUL” FAY MEMBERS, VELMA HAD STUD EXECS DISTANCG THEMSELV OM THE FACT THAT SHE’S BEEN PURPOSELY QUEER-D FOR YEARS. SOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU?PICTURELUX / THE HOLLYWOOD ARCHIVE / ALAMY Y, VELMA IS A RTOON CHARACTER, WHOSE ROOTS DATE BACK TO 1969, THE ORIGAL HANNA-BARBERA SOBY-DOO SERI. BUT EVEN THE 1970S WERE NO MATCH FOR HER HERENT SAPPHIC NATURE, LIKE KNOWG WHAT DAPHNE’S MOANS SOUND LIKE. SUBTLE L LIKE THAT, OR THE FACT THAT VELMA NEVER REALLY HAD A LONG-LASTG LOVE TERT, ARE WHAT GOT—AND HAS KEPT—THE LBIAN HEADNONS ROLLG. IF WE N’T GET GAY REPRENTATN, WE’LL CREATE , AND THAT PECIALLY GO FOR LBIANS. BUT VELMA BEG GAY ISN’T JT SOMETHG QUEER PEOPLE’S MDS. IN ADDN TO HER FUNNY MENTS THE 1970S, CREATORS HAVE BEEN TRYG TO PORTRAY VELMA AS OPENLY GAY FOR S. TAKE THE H LIVE-ACTN SOBY-DOO MOVIE, FOR STANCE. RELEASE 2002, STARRED A STACKED ST OF ACTORS, CLUDG SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR AS DAPHNE, FREDDIE PRZE, JR., AS FRED, MATTHEW LILLARD AS SHAGGY, AND LDA CARLLI AS VELMA. JAM GUNN, WHO WROTE THE SCRIPT, HAS BEEN OPEN ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE ORIGALLY WROTE THE MOVIE FOR ADULTS—AND THAT ONE KEY PART OF THE ORIGAL NCEPT CLUD VELMA BEG A LBIAN. WARNER BROS. IN 2020, A FAN ON TWTER URGED GUNN TO MAKE A THIRD SOBY-DOO MOVIE, THIS TIME FEATURG A QUEER VELMA. ACRDG TO INDIEWIRE, THE FILMMAKER TWEETED BACK THAT HE TRIED TO DO THIS ONCE BEFORE. “IN 2001 VELMA WAS EXPLICLY GAY MY IAL SCRIPT,” HE WROTE A NOW-LETED REPLY. “BUT THE STUD JT KEPT WATERG DOWN AND WATERG DOWN, BEG AMBIGUO (THE VERSN SHOT), THEN NOTHG (THE RELEASED VERSN), AND FALLY HAVG A BOYIEND (THE SEQUEL).”DPE STG SETH GREEN AS A LOVE TERT FOR CARLLI’S VELMA, 2004’S SOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED ALSO FEATURED A FATLY HOMOEROTIC ENERGY BETWEEN DAPHNE AND VELMA. IT WAS A TENSN THAT YOUNG SAPPHICS KNOW WELL: MON TEENAGE FEELGS FOR CLOSE FEMALE IENDS BEFORE REALIZG THEY’RE GAY. BUT GOG BACK TO THE FIRST MOVIE, YOU N STILL SPOT POSSIBLE HTS GUNN WAS ABLE TO LEAVE THE SCRIPT (BUT NOT THE FAL CUT) TO VELMA’S QUEERNS. ONE LETED SCENE SHOWS VELMA “DNK” ON SOME NON-ALHOLIC DRKS AT A SPOOKY ISLAND BAR, SGG A RENDN OF “CAN'T TAKE MY EY OFF YOU” BY FRANKIE VALLI. HER MOMENT AS A BARET SGER STARTS WHEN SHE SPOTS DAPHNE G DOWN THE STAIRS. GRANTED, FRED WAS G DOWN AT THE SAME TIME TOO. BUT NSIRG GUNN TEND FOR VELMA TO BE “EXPLICLY GAY,” ’S EASY TO IMAGE THAT “DNK” VELMA WAS HER FEELS ABOUT AN UNREQUED CSH ON DAPHNE BLAKE. THAT WAS OVER 20 YEARS AGO, AND SCE THEN, WE’VE MET ANOTHER, EVEN GAYER ERATN OF VELMA. TONY CERVONE, THE -CREATOR OF THE 2010 RTOON SOBY-DOO! MYSTERY INRPORATED, WROTE A JUNE 2020 POST THAT HIS TEAM WROTE VELMA AS GAY. “WE MA OUR TENTNS AS CLEAR AS WE ULD TEN YEARS AGO,” THE POST READS. SOBY-DOO! MYSTERY INRPORATEDWARNER BROS. IN THIS SERI, VELMA HAS A CLOSE IEND NAMED MARCIE WHOM MANY FANS SHIPPED HER WH, EVEN THOUGH THEY WEREN’T OUTWARDLY TOGETHER ON THE SHOW. “MOST OF OUR FANS GOT ,” CERVONE WROTE. “TO THOSE THAT DIDN’T, I SUGGT YOU LOOK CLOSER. THERE’S NO NEW NEWS HERE.” AND ACRDG TO SCREENSHOTS OM OUT MAGAZE, BEFORE CERVONE TURNED HIS MENTS OFF, HE REPLIED TO A ER CLARIFYG THAT VELMA IS “NOT BI. SHE’S GAY.” THAT’S WHY SHE ULDN’T STA HER ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP WH SHAGGY, WHICH VELMA SAID ALWAYS FELT OFF TO HER THIS SERI. TRICK OR TREAT SOBY DOO!WARNER BROS. THAT WHOLE JOURNEY TOWARD OPEN QUEERNS CULMAT VELMA DKLEY BEG UNDOUBTEDLY GAY OCTOBER 2022’S TRICK OR TREAT SOBY-DOO!, A 75-MUTE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL. WHEN VELMA FIRST LOCKS EY ON CO DIABLO, SHE STUTTERS AND SHUTS DOWN, LEAVG ONLY BLHG CHEEKS AND FOGGED-UP GLASS HER WAKE. VELMA ADMS TO DAPHNE LATER ON THAT SHE’S “CSHG BIG TIME.” THERE’S NO QUEER-DG NEED HERE; THIS FILM, VELMA DKLEY IS A BIG OL’ LBIAN, WHICH IS ONLY SOLIDIFIED BY HER PARALYZG FEAR ABOUT WHAT TO DO WH A NEW CSH. THIS WASN’T SHOCKG TO THE MANY FANS WHO HAD LONG THOUGHT OF VELMA AS A LBIAN, ALTHOUGH WAS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED AND CELEBRATED. THAT IS PECIALLY TE FOR THE ACTRS WHO HAD THE CHANCE TO EMBODY VELMA RECENT YEARS. A MONTH AFTER THE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL’S RELEASE, LDA CARLLI PRAISED THE CHARACTER VELOPMENT AN ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY TERVIEW. IT WAS “GREAT THAT ’S FALLY OUT THERE,” SHE SAID, NOTG THAT VELMA’S LBIANISM HAD “BEEN HTED AT SO MANY TIM.”LBIAN J HERSELF, SGER/ACTRS HAYLEY KIYOKO, ALSO PRAISED VELMA’S OVERDUE G-OUT MOMENT. IN SEVERAL TWEETS, KIYOKO REMISCED ABOUT HER TIME VOICG VELMA, BACK 2009 AND 2010. “I REMEMBER BOOKG [THE VOICE ROLE OF] VELMA 2008. IT WAS MY FIRST BIG ROLE A MOVIE,” SHE TWEETED OCTOBER, RPONSE TO THE REVEAL THAT VELMA WAS NOW OUT. “I ALSO REMEMBER THKG ‘I WONR IF THEY KNOW THEY HIRED A LBIAN AS VELMA’ HERE WE ARE, 14 YEARS LATER…” KIYOKO ALSO WENT ON TO TWEET THAT “I FEEL ALIVE AND SEEN,” WHEN A FAN ASKED HOW SHE WAS DOG FOLLOWG VELMA’S OPEN LBIANISM. AND THAT, RIGHT THERE, IS PROBABLY THE BT AND MOST SUCCCT SCRIPTN OF WHY VELMA’S QUEERNS BEG NFIRMED IS SUCH A BIG AL. THE TOPIC OF WHY REPRENTATN MATTERS IS A ROUTE NVERSATN AT THIS POT. BUT MARGALIZED MUNI NTUE TO TALK ABOUT , BEE IS SUCH A VALIDATG EXPERIENCE TO SEE YOURSELF ON SCREEN. IT’S SIGNIFINT TO SEE YOUR SEXUALY, SPECIFILLY, PORTRAYED AS NORMAL AND SWEET BEE THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT IS, JT LIKE STRAIGHT CSH ARE ON-SCREEN. VELMA REPRENTED THAT AWKWARD GIRL WHO DON’T F BUT NEVER TRI TOO HARD TO DO SO, EHER. OUTSI OF A FEW BIG EXCEPTNS (LIKE THE LEATHER ORANGE JUMPSU OM MONSTERS UNLEASHED THAT AWAKENED MANY PEOPLE’S SEXUALI), VELMA IS FE LIVG HER “WEIRDNS” OF BEG THE GIRL WH A NASALLY, NERDY VOICE, BIG SWEATER, AND GLASS. SHE NEVER FELT RIGHT DATG MEN, BUT SHE OF URSE CRAVED SOME LEVEL OF MALE VALIDATN; LBIANS OLD AND YOUNG STILL AL WH THAT TOO. BUT UNR ALL, SHE WAS JT A LBIAN WHO WASN’T GIVEN THE FOOTG SHE NEED TO E OUT. WH LBIANS AND QUEER PEOPLE CLGG ONTO VELMA’S QUEER-D CHARACTER FOR S, HER “G OUT” WAS A DREAM E TE FOR HEADNON-ERS EVERYWHERE.BUT VELMA’S SIGNIFINT, LONG-AWAED G OUT ME WH (UNSURPRISG) BACKLASH. THE LRA INGRAHAMS OF THE WORLD BLEW UP ABOUT VELMA’S QUEERNS “DISPTG… BELOVED CHARACTERS,” AS THE HOSTS OF THE YOUNG TURKS PODST PUT WELL A RECENT EPISO. APPARENTLY, THERE’S “NO NOCENCE” LEFT THE WORLD WH THIS NEWT CHECKMARK THE GAY “AGENDA;” WHAT ARE STUDS GOG TO “SEXUALIZE” NEXT? “BUT APPARENTLY, SEX SELLS UNTIL YOU MAKE GAY.” DPE THE OBV AND SAD FACT THAT NSERVATIVE MENTATORS ARE GETTG SEXUAL ORIENTATN NFED WH SEXUAL SIRE, ’S TERTG THAT A FICTNAL PERSON REVEALG THAT THEY’RE LBIAN OR QUEER IS HERENTLY SEXUAL TO THE TRACTORS. AND A LOT OF MEDIA FOR CHILDREN AND FAI HAS CLUD SEXUAL JOK OF THE STRAIGHT VARIETY (LOOKG AT YOU, SHREK AND SPONGEBOB). BUT APPARENTLY, SEX SELLS UNTIL YOU MAKE GAY. VELMAHBOMAX DPE THE PHBACK, HBO MAX’S NEW, ADULT-ORIENTED RTOON VELMA, VELMA’S SAPPHIC JOURNEY LIV ON. WHILE SOME FANS ARE UNRSTANDABLY ANNOYED THAT THIS NEW ERATN OF THE CHARACTER (VOICED BY MDY KALG) HAS A CSH ON FRED (GLENN HOWERTON), THE SERI DO MAKE A POT TO NOTE THAT SHE’S A HIGH SCHOOLER FIGURG OUT HER SEXUALY. OF URSE SHE HAS THE HOTS FOR THE NVENTNALLY ATTRACTIVE JOCK. BUT VELMA ALSO HAS A NEWFOUND CSH ON A LIFELONG FEMALE IEND. (YOU N GUS WHICH ONE.)HAVG VELMA E OUT ANOTHER PART OF THE SOBY-DOO UNIVERSE AND THEN SEEMGLY “ERASG” ANOTHER MIGHT BE DISAPPOTG. BUT THE SERI DO LEAN TO THE CHARACTER’S HISTORY AND QUEERNS, WHILE ALSO GIVG FANS A LTLE SOMETHG ELSE NON THAT THEY'VE WANTED FOR S.WH OR WHOUT THE HATERS, VELMA DKLEY IS A LBIAN. AND JT AS REAL-LIFE LBIANS ARE ED TO, SHE’S GOG TO NTUALLY HAVE HER SEXUALY DIMISHED OR “FOTTEN” BEE THE GREATER SOCIETY N’T POSSIBLY IMAGE A WORLD WHERE MALE VALIDATN AND SIRE AREN’T THE MOST IMPORTANT THGS A WOMAN’S LIFE. BUT AS SURE AS VELMA’S HAB FOR SAYG “JKI” OR NOT BEG ABLE TO SEE WHOUT HER GLASS, SHE’S A LBIAN AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN. ALANI VARGAS

Two years after Jam Gunn said he had tried to make Velma nonilly gay the 2002 movie.

VELMA “SOBY-DOO” IS OFFICIALLY GAY AND FANS ARE ECSTATIC

Mystery Inrporated character Velma Dkley has fally been picted as gay the latt animated movie, Trick or Treat Soby-Doo! — Pia ? (@soleildiddle) October 4, 2022 In another clip, Velma is shown beg plimentary towards Co as she prais her abily to make "brilliant observatns" durg a recent enunter that the group had together, right before Co rts her hand on Velma's shoulr, promptg a reactn om Velma who visibly stggl to hi her fatuatn for her newfound love celebrated the moment by showerg screens wh a s of animated nfetti and var LGBTQ+ flags when queri such as "Velma, " "Velma Dkley" and "Velma Soby-Doo" were typed to the search enge, wh the rults pag of the entri poppg up wh an optn to replay the animatn or share wh two years after Jam Gunn said he tried to make Velma nonilly gay the 2002 live-actn adaptatn of the Hanna-Barbera animatn, but that the stud "kept waterg down and waterg down" until beme "ambiguo (the versn shot), then nothg (the released versn) and fally havg a boyiend (the sequel). She's gay.

's explos agast the head of a notor stume crime syndite, nfirms mon knowledge among fans that Velma is gay. While Velma's sexualy has remaed largely ambiguo, both Jam Gunn — who wrote the live-actn films cir the early 2000s — and Tony Cervone — a producer on the Mystery Inrporated seri — have said she is gay. In 2020, Gunn tweeted that he tried to make his versn of Velma (played by Lda Carlli) gay, but Warner Bros.

" Durg Pri Month that year, Cervone siarly said his eratn of Velma is gay.

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