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From boy-next-door hunk Kev Keller to cheerlear Cheryl Blossom, we've piled a list of every gay and bisexual character The CW show Riverdale.

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ARCHIE MAY BE HOT, BUT IT’S BETTY AND VERONI WHO RULE 'RIVERDALE'THE CW’S ‘RIVERDALE’ IS A MOODY, SUBVERSIVE, AND SURPRISGLY FEMIST TAKE ON THE ARCHIE {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.25 "GRAVY",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NONE;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#FFFFFF;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY CRYSTAL BELLJANUARY 18, 2017/12:38 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}THE CWBY CRYSTAL BELLJANUARY 18, 2017 / 12:38 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"ARCHIE MAY BE HOT, BUT IT’S BETTY AND VERONI WHO RULE 'RIVERDALE'","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-01-18T17:38:55.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-01-18T17:38:55.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"MTV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"MTV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1280,"HEIGHT":720}},"CREATOR":"CRYSTAL BELL","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RIVERDALE HAS BEEN SCRIBED AS TW PEAKS MEETS THE O.C. IT'S A VISUALLY SUMPTUO MURR MYSTERY ATED WH QUIPPY, SELF-AWARE POP CULTURE REFERENC AND LECTABLE TEEN ANGST. BUT AT S RE, THE CW'S STYLIZED, SUBVERSIVE TAKE ON THE WHOLOME CHARACTERS IMMORTALIZED THE ARCHIE ICS IS A LOVE STORY. NO, NOT BETWEEN ARCHIE AND BETTY. OR ARCHIE AND VERONI. OR EVEN JUGHEAD AND HAMBURGERS. IT'S A LOVE STORY BETWEEN BETTY AND VERONI — AND THEIR UNAPOLOGETILLY FEMALE, AND UNUALLY TENR, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MAKE NO MISTAKE: ARCHIE MAY BE HOT NOW, BUT 'S BETTY COOPER AND VERONI LODGE WHO N THIS SHOW, LERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY.THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}LILI REHART AS BETTY (LEFT) AND CAA MENS AS VERONI (RIGHT) ON THE CW'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}RIVERDALE, WHICH PREMIER JANUARY 26, SUCCEEDS BEE 'S UNAAID TO CHALLENGE THE BETTY-VERS-VERONI DYNAMIC THAT'S ARGUABLY MA ARCHIE A POP CULTURE MASTAY SCE S CREATN THE EARLY '40S. (ASK YOURSELF: WOULD DAWSON LEERY, JOEY POTTER, AND JEN LDLEY EVEN EXIST WHOUT ARCHIE, BETTY, AND VERONI?) FOR S, GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE TEGORIZED THEMSELV TO ONE OF TWO MPS: TEAM BETTY OR TEAM VERONI. USUALLY TERMED BY HAIR LOR — THOUGH, THERE ARE ALWAYS OUTLIERS (THIS WRER CLUD) — A BETTY IS SMART AND SWEET, WHILE A VERONI IS A SOPHISTITED VIXEN. AND ANY DIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS ARE EVENTUALLY OVERSHADOWED BY THEIR ONGOG RIVALRY FOR THE AFFECTN OF ARCHIE, THE GIRL-CRAZY, ALL-AMERIN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT RIVERDALE, OM FORMER DAWSON'S CREEK SHOWNNER GREG BERLANTI AND ARCHIE WRER ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SASA, QUICKLY TABLISH BETTY AND VERONI'S IENDSHIP AS THE BEATG HEART OF THE SERI. FROM THE VERY FIRST EPISO, WE MEET TWO PABLE YOUNG WOMEN WHO ARE FAR MORE PLEX THAN THEIR TWO-DIMENSNAL UNTERPARTS. (THOUGH, PROLIFIC ICS WRER MARK WAID'S CURRENT N ON ARCHIE CLOSE.) BETTY (LILI REHART, THE SHOW'S EPLY AFFECTG STANDOUT), THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, IS MOONG OVER ARCHIE WHILE BATTG HER OWN ANXIETY AND PRSN WH PILLS. MEANWHILE, VERONI (CAA MENS) IS ADJTG TO HER NEW LIFE THE SLEEPY, SACCHARE TOWN OF RIVERDALE, OR AS SHE PUTS , “I'M BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S BUT THIS PLACE IS STRICTLY IN COLD BLOOD.” THEY BOTH ULD E A IEND, SOMEONE WHO N FALLY SEE THEM AS THEY SEE THEMSELV.THE CWRIVERDALE - {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE MUCH OF THE SHOW'S FIRST FOUR EPISOS — GIVEN TO PRS FOR REVIEW — FOC ON BETTY AND VERONI'S GROWG (PLATONIC) IENDSHIP, THEY'RE NOT THE ONLY WOMEN WHO STAND OUT. MALAE PETSCH'S MANIC-PIXIE-BOMBSHELL, CHERYL BLOSSOM (DOG HER BT REGA GEE), IS A WORTHY ADVERSARY, AND ENEMY, TO BETTY AND VERONI. NOT TO MENTN, PETSCH EASILY WALKS AWAY WH THE SHOW'S BT ONE-LERS. (ALTHOUGH, BETTY'S GAY BT IEND KEV KELLER, PLAYED BY CASEY COTT, ULD EASILY GO TOE-TO-TOE WH RIVERDALE'S ANGRY QUEEN BEE.) ASHLEIGH MURRAY'S AMB ONTWOMAN JOSIE MCCOY IS AN OUTSPOKEN FEMIST WHOSE SHARP TONGUE AND MANDG STAGE PRENCE MAKE HER AND THE PSYTS ON TO WATCH. EVEN SHANNON PURSER'S ETHEL MUGGS, THOUGH THE PERIPHERY, TEAMS UP WH BETTY AND VERONI EPISO 3 TO TAKE ON A GROUP OF SLUT-SHAMG FOOTBALL PLAYERS. (BARB LIV! AND SHE'S DISMANTLG PATRIARCHY AT RIVERDALE HIGH!){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AS FOR THE LOVABLE, CLUMSY ARCHIE (K.J. APA), HE'S STILL A FUCKBOY, BUT HE DON'T QUE KNOW . APA IS SO CHARISMATIC AS ARCHIE — OR, AS JOSIE LLS HIM, JT GGERLAKE — THAT 'S HARD TO BE MAD AT HIM FOR BEG SO CLUELS. HE'S JUGGLG SCHOOLWORK, VARSY FOOTBALL, AN AFTER-SCHOOL JOB AT THE FAY NSTCTN BS, AN AFFAIR WH HIS MIC TEACHER MISS GNDY (SARAH HABEL), AND A EP, DARK SECRET THAT'S EATG AT HIS NSCIENCE. AND THEN THERE'S THE FACT THAT THE BURGEONG SGER-SONGWRER HAS DREAMS OF BEG A MICIAN. NO WONR “TEEN OUTLANR” DON'T HAVE TIME FOR A RELATNSHIP RIGHT NOW.THE CWRIVERDALE - BETTY AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}K.J. APA AS ARCHIE AND REHART AS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PERHAPS RIVERDALE'S ONLY FLT THE FIRST FOUR EPISOS IS S CISN TO SILE JUGHEAD (COLE SPROE), THE SARSTIC RECLE WHO'S TRANGED OM HIS BT IEND ARCHIE — AND THE RT OF THE TOWN. JUGHEAD IS THE SHOW'S WEARY NARRATOR, AN OUTSIR WHO SPENDS MOST OF HIS TIME WRG A TE CRIME NOVEL AT POP'S DER. FOR SOME, THIS PICTN MIGHT SEEM A B OUT-OF-CHARACTER FOR ARCHIE'S EASYGOG BT IEND, BUT SPROE LIVERS CYNICISM WH APLOMB. THE FORMER SUE LIFE OF ZACK AND CODY STAR DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT TO DO AT FIRST, BUT HOPEFULLY HIS POTED TERACTNS WH ARCHIE, AND HIS SLTHG WH BETTY, GROW AS THE SHOW'S MYSTERI EPEN. THANKFULLY, THERE'S A SCENE EPISO 4 THAT FALLY GIV SPROE A MEATY STORY LE OF HIS OWN TO CHEW ON.THE CWRIVERDALE - {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}COLE SPROE AS JUGHEAD ON {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH SO MUCH GOG ON THE LIV OF BETTY, VERONI, ARCHIE, AND JUGHEAD, 'S EASY TO FET THAT THIS IS A TEEN SOAP WHODUN SCEND OM PRETTY LTLE LIARS. BUT THE MYSTER ATH OF RIVERDALE GOLN BOY JASON BLOSSOM ISN'T NEARLY AS PELLG AS BETTY'S PENNCY ON ADRALL, OR HER HOMEG DANCE HEARTBREAK, OR CHERYL'S STCTIVE LONELS, OR JUGHEAD AND ARCHIE'S PAFUL HISTORY, OR VERONI'S PH AND PULL BETWEEN WHO SHE WAS AND THE H START SHE SO SPERATELY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#F3F3F3;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT'S THOSE STORI, SO TENRLY TOLD BY THE WRERS, THAT ARE GOG TO MAKE VIEWERS E BACK FOR MORE OF WHAT RIVERDALE HAS TO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

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Inially playg the role of high school mean girl – and not much else – head cheerlear Cheryl has shown plenty of character velopment over three seasons of Riverdale, largely due to all the trma she’s endured; we’re talkg a tw brother murred at the hands of their father, a failed suici attempt, and gay ‘cure’ therapy urty of her mother and the Sisters of Quiet Mercy. One of TV’s most proment bisexual femal, Toni Topaz was troduced as a member of the Southsi Serpents Riverdale’s send season and was promoted to seri regular for season three, where she beme the support system that Cheryl Blossom sperately need after her fay murred, betrayed, and attempted to put her through gay ‘cure’ therapy.

Wh a reer “fantasy fulfilment”, and seemgly only servg male clients, ’s hard to know if Chic exists somewhere along the sexualy spectm or if he’s jt gay-for-pay.

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Archie's Riverdale gets s first gay character.

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