Archie comics to introduce openly gay character

[dark-weezing.livejournal.com]

I have no real opinion about the matter, but I'm sure some of you might with the injection of the LBGT agenda. Special thanks to The Four Color Media Monitor blog. (For those unfamiliar, it's a good conservative opining site about today's modern comics.)

Link: http://www.archiecomics.com/blog/news/2010/04/archie-comics-introduces-first-openly-gay-character.html

Update: Our mod, sopdetly, via the Comments, poses a few essential questions:

No, but seriously. I'll ask it here because I trust y'all: What is this gay agenda I hear so much about, from your perspective? What exactly do you think all the gays are getting together and plotting?

And to be specific to the topic in the post, what about a long-running comic series suggests "GAY AGENDA" to you? Is it simply that they've put an openly gay character into the series? Is it that they're making a point to make sure everyone knows?

Fair questions all, so feel free to address them in your own comments, as well. As I type this, Mark Steyn is referencing this on Rush, now. How about that?

Comments

[scarletwalk.livejournal.com]

I think that people may label it as a "gay agenda" if the readers are reminded constantly about the character's sexual orientation. If that's going to be the case, then I think it's political correctness fail.

I'll roll my eyes if this kind of thing happens: "Hey look guys, it's gay Kevin! Hi, gay Kevin!" Hopefully Archie comics won't take this kind of approach, because I think that it would just reinforce labeling. The last thing the gay community needs to to only have token gay characters appear in the media.

Personally, I'm not opposed to an openly gay comic book character. I'll only be annoyed if that's the only characteristic the character has, though. Someone shouldn't be defined only by their sexual orientation.

[dark-weezing.livejournal.com]

Sums up my feelings about the matter nicely. Well said.

[ohinternets.livejournal.com]

I agree with you. Tokenism. Maybe they'll get Black Gary or Charlene, Who Is In a Wheelchair next?