I’m gay, says new Archie comic character

[icymist]

It’s official. Eternal teen Archie Andrews will soon be joined in his escapades at Riverdale High by an openly gay friend — Kevin Keller.

Kevin is the latest fictional character to have come out of the closet in a world where good always triumphs over evil.

As more and more cartoonists and comic writers embrace the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) theme, usually kept out of the purview of young audiences, readers weigh the merits of an all-inclusive world against traditional morality.

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[WillParkinson]

1. Aw, we're a 'theme' now. How nice.

Readers weigh the merits of an all-inclusive world against traditional morality.

That has to be one of the stupidest sentences I've ever read. What 'traditional' are we talking? The one where women were property? The one where women did not have the right to vote? The one were people of certain races or classes were used as slave labor and treated like dirt?

OK, I might be reading more into this than there is, but I just woke up and this is the first thing I read. :-)

On edit: There's a poll at the bottom of the article asking:

A gay character in comics is...

a sign of changing times

totally uncalled for

67% say it is a sign of changing times.

[beyurslf]

3. That is always my thought when people say "traditional" marriage

or better yet "biblical" marriage.

Traditional marriage: Arranged by fathers where the father of the bride is paid a substantional dowry for selling his daughter to the husband.

Biblical marriage: Men can have as many wives as they can support ala King Solomon who had 1000.

In neither, do the women have any rights.

[provis99]

2. Archie has had a gay character for decades.

C'mon, didn't everybody already know that Jughead was gay?

[Toasterlad]

5. I Had My Suspicions.

[WillParkinson]

8. When I was a kid...

I always wanted Moose.

[Meeker Morgan]

10. Yes. Jughead and Big Moose.

The best bottom is a top. :evilgrin:

[Touchdown]

4. Look at him. Can he get any more plain looking?

Looks like Fred from Scooby Doo.

[Toasterlad]

6. I'd Do Him.

[WillParkinson]

7. That's just so wrong...

I had dibs.

[Touchdown]

9. Meh! no butt and I can barely see what's beneath the fly.

T-Shirt underneath is just too much clothes to take off, and that hair is too pretty. Needs someone to muss it up! If we're going to get turned on by cartoons, then I'm going to be a pig about it.:P

[ropi]

11. mmhm

kevin needs that tom of finland look.

[JulieKatz]

12. You Can Preorder Online

Buy a dozen for you and your friends:

http://archiecomics.stores.yahoo.net/spsiis.html

Wouldn't it have been wonderful to have seen something like this when we were teens?