Lisa Foad said:
And while recent years have seen further diversification of the cast (Raj Patel, Tomoko Yoshido), these characters are “safely” sideliners who “safely” fuck one another.
I can see where this will inevitably lead. The homosexuals will only have sex with each other!
Why she said that, I don't know; there's no sex in the Archie books generally anyway.
In fact, in 2003, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s homo romp through Riverdale, a play which featured a flaming Archie — was nearly quashed hours before opening when Atlanta-based Dad’s Garage Theater received an ultimatum: halt production or face litigation.
“[Archie Comics] thought if Archie was portrayed as being gay, that would dilute and tarnish his image,” says Sean Daniels, the theatre’s artistic director. After a mad-scramble rewrite, Archie’s Weird Fantasy became Weird Comic Book Fantasy and hit the stage. (The 2006 GLAAD-Media-Award-nominated play is now titled Golden Age.)
Boy, I sure do feel bad for the people writing fan-fiction for the stage and charging money for it, who didn't bother securing the rights to the characters they wanted to use, or have the sense to write it as a veiled parody in the first place.
These are the same kind of goofballs who don't incorporate their business to protect their personal assets from liability, aren't they?
Especially when they know how litigious Archie Comics can be about fan fiction.
Now, I don't read Archie, but are there a lot of heterosexual sex scenes, express or implied? If so, maybe I should start reading Archie.
As I said above, there aren't any such scenes in Archie comics anyway.
(The cultural acceptability of lesbians, on the other hand, depends upon triple-X fantasy, namely straight masculinity’s ability to imagine itself sandwiched in between — a lascivious insistence that’s too lewd for Riverdale)
We need only look to the wildly sexphobic backlash generated by Adam Lambert’s deliciously deviant performance at the 2009 American Music Awards (which featured boy-boy make-out and briefly suggested a blowjob) to remind us just how rigidly gay male sexuality is policed: the West Coast broadcast was censored; Lambert’s upcoming ABC performances were canceled; ABC began tightening its performer contracts (to ensure live shows mimic rehearsals); and homophobes everywhere denounced Lambert as “obscene” and “disgusting.”
Now she ends on a totally valid point.
Riverdale’s Kevin Keller might be gay. But he’s not queer.
Except I don't know what this means.
