# Who else is gay in Archie comics? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060 "2010-04-23T01:40:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/1 "2010-04-23T01:40:31Z")
The media is proclaim the new character, [Kevin](http://www.comicbookresources.com/prev_img.php?disp=img&pid=1271949651), as “the first _openly_ gay” character in Midvale. The implication here is that there is at least one other who is gay, but just not openly. Who could that be? ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/2 "2010-04-23T01:54:53Z")
Miss Grundy, I’m guessing. And Jughead. He may have started dating girls recently (as in, the last twenty years) but he’s not fooling anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Mavis\_Topholese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@Mavis\_Topholese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mavis_Topholese)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/3 "2010-04-23T02:05:12Z")
[I’d say Dilton Doiley, but apparently he digs robots.](http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics111.html) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/4 "2010-04-23T02:25:25Z")
Reggie- that whole Lothario thing is SUCH a front! ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/5 "2010-04-23T02:28:58Z")
> [@Mavis\_Topholese](#): > > [I’d say Dilton Doiley, but apparently he digs robots.](http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics111.html) That was so wrong. To the OP- you can’t tell me Betty & Veronica have never sipped champaigne out of the pink slipper. Semi-seriously, anyone ever see the Spire Christian Comics series of Archie done by Al Hartley?- boy, what a special-issue come have come out of this! ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/6 "2010-04-23T02:40:48Z")
Cmon, guys. Haven’t you ever seen _Chasing Amy_ before? There’s an entire sequence devoted to this: “Archie is the bitch and Jughead is the butch. That’s why Jughead wears that crown-looking hat all the time.” Archie probably dominates Jughead sometimes, though. I mean, shit, it is _his_ book. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/7 "2010-04-23T02:43:26Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > The media is proclaim the new character, [Kevin](http://www.comicbookresources.com/prev_img.php?disp=img&pid=1271949651), as “the first _openly_ gay” character in Midvale. The implication here is that there is at least one other who is gay, but just not openly. Who could that be? _nitpick_ They live in Riverdale. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/8 "2010-04-23T04:01:50Z")
That’s a no-brainer: Moose and Dilton. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/9 "2010-04-23T04:11:33Z")
Mr. Weatherby. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/10 "2010-04-23T05:51:20Z")
Gotta be Moose. It’s always the one you least suspect. Oh wait, no it isn’t… let’s just go with Moose anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/11 "2010-04-23T09:39:02Z")
> [@Mavis\_Topholese](#): > > [I’d say Dilton Doiley, but apparently he digs robots.](http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics111.html) I don’t know the names of any of the Archie artists, but I recognize the oddball style of the robot-story artist - everyone seems to be leaning forward, as though bipedal evolution had not completely taken hold in Riverdale. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/12 "2010-04-23T10:14:04Z")
Definitely Mrs. Grundy. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/13 "2010-04-23T13:06:26Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > Definitely Mrs. Grundy. Always thought of her as [asexual.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual) (Of course, that might be because it would be just so disturbing to think of her as anything else . . . but I suspect most of her real-life models are asexual.) ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/14 "2010-04-23T13:08:32Z")
Didn’t somebody use the Archie characters to make some Jack Chick-like stories during the seventies? Whoever that was, they’re either spinning in their grave, or their head is exploding right now. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/15 "2010-04-23T13:25:15Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Didn’t somebody use the Archie characters to make some Jack Chick-like stories during the seventies? Whoever that was, they’re either spinning in their grave, or their head is exploding right now. Yep, I actually remember seeing some of those comic books when I was a kid. I don’t think they were actually Jack Chick, but the stories did definitely have a Gospel spin. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/16 "2010-04-23T14:30:31Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Yep, I actually remember seeing some of those comic books when I was a kid. I don’t think they were actually Jack Chick, but the stories did definitely have a Gospel spin. No, they were legitimate [Archie comics](http://generationexploitation.blogspot.com/2006/06/history-of-christian-archi_114951302719460209.html). ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/17 "2010-04-23T14:35:24Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Reggie- that whole Lothario thing is SUCH a front! I’ll second that. His vanity is way past metrosexual territory. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/18 "2010-04-23T14:37:31Z")
Mmm. How about [Melody?](http://s839.photobucket.com/albums/zz311/tobiagorrio/?action=view¤t=dodgiestpanelever.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/19 "2010-04-23T14:45:34Z")
Of course it’s Moose. How else do you explain his inability to suppress his rage when any of his friends so much as talked to Midge? He was willing to physical assault Archie and Reggie for the slightest “infraction”. Clearly this was an expression of a perceived threat to his “manliness” compounded by his inner cock sucking inclinations. I believe in upcoming issues he is revealed to be a sadistic serial killer of the Dahmer mould. ---
**Author:** ![Smitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Smitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smitty)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/20 "2010-04-23T14:47:26Z")
Well, Archie has had his moments… [http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com\_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=32&Itemid=50&limitstart=8](http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=32&Itemid=50&limitstart=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060.md?page=2)