# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/41 "2010-04-26T20:20:16Z")
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen Betty and Veronica get it on but may those weren’t canon. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/42 "2010-04-26T20:53:50Z")
If [Wendy Weatherbee](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Weatherbee#Wendy_Weatherbee) had a MySpace or OKCupid profile, it would definitely read “bi”. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/43 "2010-04-26T22:35:49Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > The point of my OP, however, is that it’s impossible for a comic book character to be secretly gay, simply because he or she has no existence beyond the pages of the book. The presupposition which the media posit simply by using the term “openly gay” when referring to Kevin is almost childlike. It’s called the [Literary Agent Hypothesis](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LiteraryAgentHypothesis), and is the only way that analyzing a literary work makes sense. For the duration of the analysis, you are suspending your disbelief, so you can talk about motives, character, etc. We have to temporarily grant their existence in order to do so. It’s far from childlike. It’s academic. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/44 "2010-04-26T22:48:11Z")
Of course not! Everybody knoos the Kevin is the ooonly gay in th’ villidge ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/45 "2010-04-26T23:11:49Z")
They’ve had a sorta-kinda gay character before. Henry Scarpelli- one of the co-creators- used his son Glenn, a [child actor](http://funkyadog.web.infoseek.co.jp/lp.files/glennscarpelli.JPG)most famous for _One Day at a Time_, as a character, and Glenn Scarpelli (long moved on from acting) is now openly gay ([cite](http://out.com/detail.asp?id=15607)). ---
**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 26, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/46 "2010-04-26T23:57:14Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > It’s far from childlike. It’s academic. It is indeed childlike when intertextual dialog becomes the News at Eleven, immediately following a Cal Worthington commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/47 "2010-04-27T04:14:00Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > And that the reason he goes by the moniker Jughead is because the name Forsythe affects women the way Axe body wash fragrance does? You mean the way it affects women in Axe commercials or in reality? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/48 "2010-04-27T08:39:00Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > It is indeed childlike when intertextual dialog becomes the News at Eleven, immediately following a Cal Worthington commercial. You got me there. I don’t think even Dumbledore’s coming out got that much press. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-else-is-gay-in-archie-comics/537060/49 "2010-04-27T17:06:29Z")
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