'Doctor Who' Gets First Openly Gay Compann; Fans React on Twter - TheWrap

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• I’M AN OPENLY GAY PEDIATRICIAN. I’VE SEEN HOW THE HEALTHRE SYSTEM FAILS LGBTQ+ KIDS.
• ‘DOCTOR WHO’ GETS FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN; FANS REACT ON TWTER
• DOCTOR WHO GETS HIS FIRST OPENLY GAY SIKICK
• ABOUT TIME: 'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE FIRST OPENLY GAY TARDIS RINT
• DOCTOR WHO REVEALS FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN
• MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON
• ABOUT TIME: 'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE FIRST OPENLY GAY TARDIS RINT

I’M AN OPENLY GAY PEDIATRICIAN. I’VE SEEN HOW THE HEALTHRE SYSTEM FAILS LGBTQ+ KIDS.

Here, he shar wh Men’s Health how beg an openly gay doctor helps him to create a safe space for all of his LGBTQ+ patients, and the ways which trans children particular are beg failed by the current 'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO ME to be out my profsnal life.

“Doctor Who” will go to s new season next month wh s first openly gay pann to the Doctor. “It’s important to say people are gay, people are black – there are also aliens the world as well so watch out for them, ” the actrs said. “[Beg gay] is not the ma thg that f her character – ’s somethg that’s part of her and somethg that she’s very happy and very fortable wh.

‘DOCTOR WHO’ GETS FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN; FANS REACT ON TWTER

“I jt screamed “DOCTOR WHO WILL HAVE AN OPENLY GAY COMPANION” Wizardg World Orlando and at least four people screamed back joy, ” went one reprentative tweet.

I jt screamed “DOCTOR WHO WILL HAVE AN OPENLY GAY COMPANION” Wizardg World Orlando and at least four people screamed back joy. “Bill Potts is gog to be the FIRST openly gay Doctor Who pann!

DOCTOR WHO GETS HIS FIRST OPENLY GAY SIKICK

CAN YOU IMAGINE GAY KIDS WATCHING THE NEW SEASON WITH BILL AND JUST BEING EXCITED THAT THEY’RE REPRESENTED ON DOCTOR WHO. the doctor who pann is such an inic role and ’s gog to be a gay black girl.

doctor who: bill is gay. (DOC: LGBTQ In The Worlds Of Doctor Who) Ined, the show began before homosexualy was crimalised England & Wal 1967[4], and Stland 1980.

ABOUT TIME: 'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE FIRST OPENLY GAY TARDIS RINT

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.

DOCTOR WHO REVEALS FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN

], 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. Beyond televisn, 2011 brought the First Doctor a gay male pann om the 1960s, Oliver Harper.

MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON

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. [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.

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. It was also important to Rsell T Davi that the new team clu a particular kd of gay reprentatn which he saw as important to the morn era: the olr gay man, here St John Colchter, who is settled down wh his hband, Col.

ABOUT TIME: 'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE FIRST OPENLY GAY TARDIS RINT

The year would also see one of the stori The Dimensn Cannon - entled The Flood - feature a parallel universe where Mickey Smh was stead a homosexual relatnship wh a male unterpot of Rose lled Rob Tyler. The boxset - both released and set 2020 - would reveal that Helen Sclair had an olr brother, Albert, who had been disowned by their father after he'd been imprisoned for beg gay durg a time when had been illegal the UK. She would note the relatnship between Tony Clare and Ron Wters as a sign of how thgs had changed, and how she wished that Albert uld have had an openly homosexual relatnship like that.

Spurlg's novelisatn of Republi featured Alice experiencg an unpleasant flashback to homophobic ments ma about her at a youth dance when she attend wearg her dad's old su jacket and wh a girl lled Misha as her partner. The -universe podst seri Doctor Who: Redacted was also announced on 8 April 2022[21], wh producer and director of the seri Ella Watts promotg the seri as beg "very gay, very trans"[22]. Some gay actors had also been st the classic seri - though, most s, the were before said actors had ma their sexualy public, such as Matthew Waterhoe, who played Adric.

Very few gay actors who appeared the classic seri had their sexual orientatns known publicly at the time, primarily due to the different social climate then, where beg gay was nowhere near as socially acceptable, wh homosexual acts even still beg nsired a crimal offence England & Wal durg the first four years of the shows n, and nsired a crimal offence Stland until 1981. One particularly notable dividual was Michael Cashman, who was openly gay at the time of his stg Time-Flight.