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Contents:
- CONFIRMATN OF FIRST GAY DOCTOR PROMIS A QUEER ERA OF DOCTOR WHO
- ‘DOCTOR WHO’ ANNOUNC S FIRST GAY LEAD CHARACTER
- DOCTOR WHO TO FEATURE FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN
- ‘DOCTOR WHO’: PEARL MACKIE’S CHARACTER BILL POTTS WILL BE FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN
CONFIRMATN OF FIRST GAY DOCTOR PROMIS A QUEER ERA OF DOCTOR WHO
Ncuti Gatwa's 14th Doctor has been nfirmed as gay, which promis a queer future for Doctor Who, along wh Yasm Fney's trans pann Rose. * doctor who bill gay *
(DOC: LGBTQ In The Worlds Of Doctor Who) Ined, the show began before homosexualy was crimalised England & Wal 1967[4], and Stland 1980. Wrer Ian Briggs revealed many years after the productn of The Curse of Fenric that the story's Dr Judson was tend to be — like the man he was based on, Alan Turg — stgglg wh his homosexualy, but this was ultimately cut as 1988, was still not generally nsired appropriate to discs such topics a fay programme.
], would then see the first unambiguo gay reprentatn.
Rsell T Davi' novel Damaged Goods 1996 then put signifint foc on Brish gay culture of the 1980s, wh the Doctor's pann Chris Cwej gog to a club. From then on, the programme — not to mentn s more adult-orientated sp-off, Torchwood, wh Jack the lead — ntaed many referenc to var sexual orientatns, and monstrated the evolutn of views towards homosexualy humany's future. Steven Andrew, then Head of Drama and Acquisns for CBBC, also requted that Davi put a gay character The Sarah Jane Adventur, an attempt to troduce a "normal" gay teenager to children's televisn.
‘DOCTOR WHO’ ANNOUNC S FIRST GAY LEAD CHARACTER
Bill Potts is the first openly gay pann character the show's history. Played by Pearl Mackie, she will make her but the season 10 premiere. * doctor who bill gay *
Beyond televisn, 2011 brought the First Doctor a gay male pann om the 1960s, Oliver Harper. He was ashamed and aaid to reveal his sexualy to them, fear of gettg kicked out of the TARDIS, as homosexualy was crimalised his time, but the Doctor assur him that this persecutn was "society's crime", and not Oliver's. Featured as a teenager durg the late 1960s his but, The Fotten Son, is dited that he was unable to be open about beg gay out of fear of how people would react.
Sectn 28, a piece of legislatn effectively banng the "promotn of homosexualy" classrooms, was troduced the UK 1988 – which was also the year we saw Coal Hill School for the fal time the origal n of Doctor Who.
DOCTOR WHO TO FEATURE FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN
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[1] Though neher character would utilise any specific terms the episos of the TV show to scribe their specific sexualy, Mattsz would scribe himself as gay Now You Know...
- a 2018 d story that would also touch upon the impact of homophobic bullyg to Mattsz's school life.
‘DOCTOR WHO’: PEARL MACKIE’S CHARACTER BILL POTTS WILL BE FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN
2017 saw the but of televised Doctor Who's first openly gay full-time pann, Bill Potts. Addnally, the sole exceptn to this, V, is dited by Luci as homosexual - "He only lik men.
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