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17 March 2009 5:44 PM, PDT | From AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news

Have a question about gay male entertainment? Ask the Monkey! (Please include your city and state and/or country.)

Q: Archie comics were a guilty pleasure growing up — I mean, Betty and Veronica are awesome.  The only thing is that there is almost no diversity in the characters.  But I always wondered about Jughead, who had obvious gay tendencies. I also wondered if the creators would ever consider adding a gay character — after all, it is supposed to be the average American high school. — Evers, Delray Beach, Fl

A: Actually, Archie Comics, the publisher of the various Archie titles, has been pretty good at incorporating diversity into the fictional, all-American town of Riverdale. Over the years, they’ve shown increasing racial diversity, and from time to time they’ve even included disabled teens — a paralyzed teen once, and a blind one too. 

In other words, it’s only diversity of

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1 article from 2009