It’s Official: “Riverdale” River Vixen Cheryl Blossom is Bisexual!
I am not the kind of person who gets off on saying “I told you so.” But there are few things I enjoy more than being right about a fictional character being queer. A few months ago, I declared that Riverdale’s Cheryl Blossom is probably queer. Well my little River Vixens, I told you so. Cheryl Blossom is canonically bisexual according to Madelaine Petsch, who plays the fiery maple goddess herself.
Yesterday, Madelaine posted a video on her YouTube channel answering fan questions that didn’t necessarily seem like anything special. But buried in that video was the answer to the question we have all been asking ever since Cheryl locked eyes with bisexual babe Toni Topaz. “What’s Cheryl’s sexuality?” a hero asked Madelaine via Twitter. (Fast-forward to 5:28 if you want to see it all unfold for yourself.)
“She’s still figuring out what her sexuality is,” Madelaine replies in the video. I thought she was just going to leave it at that somewhat vague answer, but nope!!!!! Madelaine thankfully left no room for ambiguity, doubling down on her statement about Cheryl’s sexuality: “Cheryl is definitely interested in both women and men, so I would say she’s bisexual.”
CHERYL BLOSSOM: CONFIRMED BISEXUAL! Madelaine teased that we’ll be seeing more of Cheryl exploring herself and her identity when the show returns for the second half of its season. I have a feeling I was right about Toni being the person Cheryl is making Gay Eye Contact with in this still from next week’s episode:
hello I have used my powers of deduction to determine that Cheryl is definitely looking flirtatiously at TONI in this 0.1 second shot from the promo for the next episode of Riverdale based on the sliver of hair that is visible thank u for ur time pic.twitter.com/Lv6dmmY2Gx
— kayla kumari upadhyaya (@KaylaKumari) February 9, 2018
Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre–Sacasa also tweeted out THIS still:
And meanwhile, back in town… pic.twitter.com/Syb7QbkuzQ
— RobertoAguirreSacasa (@WriterRAS) March 1, 2018
Heather Hogan astutely pointed out that the lighting in the background appears to evoke the bi flag in a very “Make Me Feel” music video type of way.
Is the CW becoming the most bisexual network on television? Just within the past month, Jane The Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend introduced queer storylines for two main characters who previously only had romantic storylines with men. Arrow has the bisexual character Sara Lance (who also appears in Legends Of Tomorrow). Grace on Black Lightning is bisexual. The Originals and The 100 have bisexual women as main characters. And then Supergirl, Jane The Virgin, Valor, and Black Lightning all prominently feature lesbian characters. Maybe The CW should change its name to The QW as in QUEER WOMEN. They should probably at least change their slogan from “dare to defy” to “dare to BE BI.”
Will Cheryl Blossom smooch a lady this season? (Probably!) Will it be Toni? (Hopefully!) Have I made a meticulous chart of all the times I’ve noticed on social media that Madelaine and Vanessa Morgan (who plays Toni) have been filming scenes together? (Definitely!) Cross your fingers for some queer action when the show returns on March 7th.