Quick qutn for the Amerins among . If you were a ignorant redneck neo nazi type biker ( Geia if matters) how would you scribe gays...
Contents:
- AMERIN SULTS/ ROGATORY NAM FOR GAY PEOPLE
- 'RIVERDALE' JT GOT REAL ABOUT "CISG" AS A GAY MAN AND IT'S SO IMPORTANT
AMERIN SULTS/ ROGATORY NAM FOR GAY PEOPLE
For those that aren’t aware, Kev, played by Casey Cott, was origally tend as a recurrg character (basilly he was Betty’s “Gay Bt Friend” and ltle else). Kev’s BFF and moral csar Betty is worried about his behavur and urg him to e “Grm” (which we assume is the Riverdale versn of Grdr – a popular hook-up app for gay men) but Kev disagre, argug that, “Nobody is who they say they are onle.
Wh few openly gay men around, Kev’s optns are limed. This is on top of years of livg a heteronormative society where homophobia is still rife. While thgs have improved a ltle recent tim, is still monplace for gay male characters mastream TV programm and films to be ltle more than promiscuo, sex-obssed begs.
To see Riverdale attempt to give more ntext to Kev’s life and give him an opportuny to open-up about his stggl is an important tone for gay teen characters. The lk between gay sex and murr is a mon TV & film troupe. More recently, Stranger by the Lake also featured a murrer on the loose at a gay cisg spot.
'RIVERDALE' JT GOT REAL ABOUT "CISG" AS A GAY MAN AND IT'S SO IMPORTANT
From the murr of her tw to gay 'cure' therapy, Cheryl saw her fair share of tragedy before fdg support her relatnship wh Toni. Then there's Joaqu himself, who had long shown var dimensns to his sexualy through his velopg relatnship wh the openly gay Kev Keller – before he was murred, anyway.
In Riverdale, men n be gay, straight or anythg Riverdale for bisexual+ characters isn't always all 's cracked up to be, though. Chic's often flirtat behavur masks ambiguo motiv, leadg many to qutn whether he might be 'gay-for-pay', livg out elaborate fantasi to earn money and rmatn.
Riverdale has plenty more work to do s reprentatn of bisexual+ men but is at least tryg to show that men and women the world today n be gay, straight, pansexual, bisexual and everythg between.