One of The Walking Dead’s biggest mysteries is one that hasn’t actually ever been addressed on the AMC hit series: is Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) gay? Speculation has run rampant about the character’s sexual orientation since August, prior to season five’s premiere, but fans finally got an answer from comic book creator Robert Kirkman on Talking Dead after Sunday’s midseason finale.
Kirkman said, “We play Daryl Dixon as being somewhat asexual on the show. He’s a very introverted character and I think that’s some of his appeal. I do have to clear something up, though: in the letter column of the comic book that I do, I mentioned that there was a possibility early on about making Daryl Dixon’s character gay.” “It caused quite a hubbub online and I just wanted to clarify that the possibility is there and that I would have been fine with it, the network would have been fine with it, but we ultimately didn’t do that,” Kirkman said. “I can make it official: Daryl Dixon is straight.”
