Doctor Who star John Barrowman says the next Doctor ‘uld be gay or bisexual’ | The Inpennt

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• TORCHWOOD’S IANTO JON RPONDS TO RSELL T DAVI’ MENTS ON ONLY GAY ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
• CAPTA JACK HARKNS X REAR. GAY BT IEND.
• DOCTOR WHO STAR JOHN BARROWMAN SAYS THE NEXT DOCTOR ‘ULD BE GAY OR BISEXUAL’
• TORCHWOOD PRODUCER RSEL T. DAVI ASSUR US ALL THAT CAPTA JACK ISN’T GAY

TORCHWOOD’S IANTO JON RPONDS TO RSELL T DAVI’ MENTS ON ONLY GAY ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

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CAPTA JACK HARKNS X REAR. GAY BT IEND.

In the media, Jack is scribed as the "first openly gay pann". [3] The ordars wh which Jack's orientatn is regard wh Doctor Who embodi part of a polil statement about changg societal views of homosexualy. Rears of, a gay mens' webse, voted Jack the tenth bt gay or bisexual televisn character of all time, the poll self ultimately beg won by Queer as Folk character Brian Kney (also the product of Rsell T Davi).

DOCTOR WHO STAR JOHN BARROWMAN SAYS THE NEXT DOCTOR ‘ULD BE GAY OR BISEXUAL’

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The first queer character Davi troduced Season 1 of Doctor Who is Capta Jack Harkns, who is portrayed by gay actor John Barrowman. Brent also imaged that he was a homophobic Yank who ed language and phras om old films. Although once scribed as gay by Owen Harper, Jack was, rrectly, omnisexual/pansexual, that he found not only both human mal and femal attractive, but members of alien rac as well.

However, the expand Doctor Who universe he is far om the first, as Seventh Doctor pann Chris Cwej was revealed to be bisexual the 1996 Virg New Adventur novel Damaged Goods (wrten by Rsell T Davi), while Third Doctor-era recurrg character Mike Yat was "outed" as gay PROSE: Happy Endgs (although there is no suggtn of this the televised episos, which showed him flirtg wh Jo Grant on ocsn).

TORCHWOOD PRODUCER RSEL T. DAVI ASSUR US ALL THAT CAPTA JACK ISN’T GAY

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Gareth David-Lloyd played Ianto Jon Rsell T Davi’ Doctor Who sp-off Torchwood (Picture: Getty)Torchwood star Gareth David-Lloyd has rpond to It’s A S creator Rsell T Davi’ explanatn that he chose to st gay actors the new seri to ensure they would liver an ‘thentic’ portrayal of the characters. Earlier this week, Rsell nducted an terview wh Rad Tim where he strsed his view on the importance of stg gay actors gay rol. The screenwrer said: ‘I’m not beg woke about this… but I feel strongly that if I st someone a story, I am stg them to act as a lover, or an enemy, or someone on dgs or a crimal or a sat… they are not there to ‘act gay’ bee ‘actg gay’ is a bunch of s for a performance.

Gareth, who has been married to his partner Gemma Jam for 11 years, rpond to Rsell’s ments on Twter, referencg the fact that he also played a gay character Rsell’s 2004 TV seri Me All Me. ‘Ianto’s sexualy was plex but tertg that I got the role partly based on the strength of a gay character I played for @sselldavi63 ‘Me All Me’.