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If you have any kind of queerness radar, you can take one look at Velma Dinkley from the Scooby-Doo Gang and know that she is for sure higher than a three on the Kinsey scale. But is it official? There are a lot of characters in television that are “queer coded” or perceived as being LGBTQ+ without it ever being explicitly stated. That’s sort of how it has had to be for queer fans, because it hasn’t been okay to be clear about gay characters for very long in the timeline of entertainment history.
Velma has been around since the 1960s, riding around in that van, being smarter than everybody and wearing a turtle neck. Early viewers might have assumed she was gay, but they couldn’t say that on television. That’s changed! Kind of. In a newer iteration of the show, Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated which aired from 2010-2013, it is strongly implied that Velma is attracted to character Marcie Fleach. And the show’s producer, Tony Cervone, shared a picture of the two of them over a Pride flag in June:
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When people started debating if Velma was bisexual, or pan, or just interested in Marcie as a dear, dear friend, Cervone stepped in again to write:
I’ve said this before but Velma in Mystery Incorporated is not bi. She’s gay. We always planned on Velma acting a little off and out of character while she was dating Shaggy because that relationship was wrong for her and she had unspoken difficulty with the why. There are hints about the why in that episode with the mermaid, and if you follow the entire Marcie arc it seems as clear as we could make it 10 years ago. I don’t think Marcie and Velma had time to act on their feelings during the main timeline, but post reset, they are a couple. You can not like it, but this was our intention.
So there you go. Velma is an official lesbian.
VELMA IS CANONICALLY A LESBIAN THIS IS THE BEST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO ME pic.twitter.com/l3f1wZLqIr
— alex (@loventhunders) July 12, 2020
With all this talk of Velma’s sexuality, director James Gunn started tweeting about his experience directing the live-action “Scooby-Doo” movie in 2002, saying he tried to make Velma a lesbian then, but the studio stopped him:
I tried! In 2001 Velma was explicitly gay in my initial script. But the studio just kept watering it down & watering it down, becoming ambiguous (the version shot), then nothing (the released version) & finally having a boyfriend (the sequel). 😐 https://t.co/Pxho6Ju1oQ
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) July 13, 2020
Now that Velma’s out and proud, can we have an actual show where she gets to live her truth? Sixty years is too long to wait to be out and proud.
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