BBC Reveals New Doctor Who Compann Bill Is Gay! The Nerdy Bird

Contents:

• ABOUT TIME: 'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE FIRST OPENLY GAY TARDIS RINT
• ‘DOCTOR WHO’ ANNOUNC S FIRST GAY LEAD CHARACTER
• CONFIRMATN OF FIRST GAY DOCTOR PROMIS A QUEER ERA OF DOCTOR WHO
• PEARL MACKIE NFIRMS THAT NEW DOCTOR WHO PANN BILL POTTS IS GAY
• BBC REVEALS NEW DOCTOR WHO COMPANN BILL IS GAY!
• DOCTOR WHO SEASON 10 FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN
• DOCTOR WHO SEASON 10 WILL MAKE SERI HISTORY WH S FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN

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

More than a after relnchg a morn format wh s first openly gay shownner, Doctor Who is fally givg s first openly gay Potts, played by Pearl Mackie, was troduced to fans via a quick vio last year. But Mackie only jt revealed that Bill is gay — and more importantly, she will say so her send le of dialogue when the show returns two ALSO: 'Doctor Who' producer speaks about diversy the show: 'We need to do better'For Mackie, as well as Bill, that's a big no duh. "Rsell T Davi, who rebooted the show 2005, was proudly gay and the celebrated creator of Queer as Folk.

‘DOCTOR WHO’ ANNOUNC S FIRST GAY LEAD CHARACTER

But even he cid agast troducg any openly gay characters among the show's was current shownner Steven Moffat, then jt a wrer, who troduced Capta Jack — a time-traveler om the 51st century and Doctor Who's first bisexual character. The new Doctor Who pann, Bill Potts, will be openly Who clud a few LGBTQ rol the past (Jack Harkns even got his own spoff, Torchwood), but Bill is the first openly gay lead character.

CONFIRMATN OF FIRST GAY DOCTOR PROMIS A QUEER ERA OF DOCTOR WHO

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. Neil Patrick Harris has recently wrapped his filmg for Doctor Who Wal, and nfirmed a Variety terview that Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor will be gay the upg seri that will lnch Rsell T.

PEARL MACKIE NFIRMS THAT NEW DOCTOR WHO PANN BILL POTTS IS GAY

Between Gatwa's 14th Doctor beg gay and Fney's Rose beg trans, the new era of Doctor Who is promisg to be the bolst and queert era yet.

BBC REVEALS NEW DOCTOR WHO COMPANN BILL IS GAY!

While LGBTQIA reprentatn on Doctor Who has been prent sce the begng of Davi' first era 2005, Season 14 will actually be the first time the show's history that the Doctor will be explicly gay at the start of their n.

Lookg back on the revival Doctor Who era, all started wh Davi himself when he st John Barrowman -- a gay actor -- as the first pansexual pann to Christopher Ecclton's 9th Doctor, Capta Jack Harkns. (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.

DOCTOR WHO SEASON 10 FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN

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.

DOCTOR WHO SEASON 10 WILL MAKE SERI HISTORY WH S FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN

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.

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...