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Contents:

• ABOUT TIME: 'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE FIRST OPENLY GAY TARDIS RINT
• CONFIRMATN OF FIRST GAY DOCTOR PROMIS A QUEER ERA OF DOCTOR WHO
• DOCTOR WHO TO FEATURE FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: NEW DOCTOR WHO WILL FEATURE 'FIRST GAY DOCTOR'
• ‘DOCTOR WHO’ MAK HISTORY WH FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN
• 'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN
• DOCTOR WHO'S BILL POTTS TO BE SHOW'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN

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

(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.

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

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.

DOCTOR WHO TO FEATURE FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN

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. 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.

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: NEW DOCTOR WHO WILL FEATURE 'FIRST GAY DOCTOR'

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.

‘DOCTOR WHO’ MAK HISTORY WH FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN

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.

'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN

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.

DOCTOR WHO'S BILL POTTS TO BE SHOW'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN

Max Adrian, a gay actor who played Priam the 1965 serial The Myth Makers, was another of the rare exceptns as he was openly gay at the time of rerdg the story.

In terms of openly gay dividuals to have worked on the show a signifint productn pacy, the earlit and most well known stance was the show's longt-nng producer, John Nathan-Turner.

In The John Nathan-Turner Memoirs: Volume 2, Nathan-Turner also noted that his stg of openly gay actors the show rulted backlash om some Brish tabloids.