Velma Is Fally Gay the New Soby-Doo Film - IGN

Contents:

• FILMMAKER JAM GUNN WANTED ‘SOBY-DOO’ CHARACTER VELMA TO BE ‘EXPLICLY GAY’
• VELMA “SOBY-DOO” IS OFFICIALLY GAY AND FANS ARE ECSTATIC
• VELMA IS FALLY GAY THE NEW SOBY-DOO FILM
• SOBY-DOO PRODUCER NFIRMS VELMA IS GAY

FILMMAKER JAM GUNN WANTED ‘SOBY-DOO’ CHARACTER VELMA TO BE ‘EXPLICLY GAY’

” have been makg the rounds on social media, wh folks g them to proclaim that the character is fally beg shown as gay. In 2020, director Jam Gunn said he tried to make the character “explicly gay” his script for the live-actn “Soby-Doo” movie.

“In 2001 Velma was explicly gay my ial script” (for 2002’s live-actn “Soby-Doo”), he tweeted at the time. In the sequel, actor Seth Green played Velma’s boyiend and there was nothg the film to imply she was gay. So when the marketg for HBO Max’s adult animated seri “Velma” didn’t dite that the tle character might be gay — and even revealed that she had a csh on Fred — there was backlash.

VELMA “SOBY-DOO” IS OFFICIALLY GAY AND FANS ARE ECSTATIC

” Grandy says — but will never be homophobia that keeps them apart. “We’ve seen a lot of really succsful shows where homophobia, or fear of that, has been the reason two characters n’t be together, but I feel like they have a lot of other differenc, ” Kalg says, expandg on Grandy’s pot.

If we n’t get gay reprentatn, we’ll create , and that pecially go for lbians.But Velma beg gay isn’t jt somethg queer people’s mds. In addn to her funny ments the 1970s, creators have been tryg to portray Velma as openly gay for s.

VELMA IS FALLY GAY THE NEW SOBY-DOO FILM

“In 2001 Velma was explicly gay my ial script,” he wrote a now-leted reply. “But the stud jt kept waterg down and waterg down, beg ambiguo (the versn shot), then nothg (the released versn), and fally havg a boyiend (the sequel).”Dpe stg Seth Green as a love tert for Carlli’s Velma, 2004’s Soby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed also featured a fatly homoerotic energy between Daphne and Velma. It was a tensn that young sapphics know well: mon teenage feelgs for close female iends before realizg they’re gay.

But nsirg Gunn tend for Velma to be “explicly gay,” ’s easy to image that “dnk” Velma was her feels about an unrequed csh on Daphne Blake.That was over 20 years ago, and sce then, we’ve met another, even gayer eratn of Velma. Mystery Inrporated, wrote a June 2020 post that his team wrote Velma as gay.

She’s gay.” That’s why she uldn’t sta her romantic relatnship wh Shaggy, which Velma said always felt off to her this seri.

SOBY-DOO PRODUCER NFIRMS VELMA IS GAY

That whole journey toward open queerns culmat Velma Dkley beg undoubtedly gay October 2022’s Trick or Treat Soby-Doo!, a 75-mute Halloween special. Apparently, there’s “no nocence” left the world wh this newt checkmark the gay “agenda;” what are studs gog to “sexualize” next?