Doctor Who: First Gay Doctor Promis a Queer Era

Contents:

• DOCTOR WHO GETS FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN
• CONFIRMATN OF FIRST GAY DOCTOR PROMIS A QUEER ERA OF DOCTOR WHO
• ABOUT TIME: 'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE FIRST OPENLY GAY TARDIS RINT
• 'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN
• ‘DOCTOR WHO’ MAK HISTORY WH FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN
• DOCTOR WHO INTRODUC FIRST GAY COMPANN
• DOCTOR WHO SEASON 10 FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: NEW DOCTOR WHO WILL FEATURE 'FIRST GAY DOCTOR'
• DOCTOR WHO'S BILL POTTS TO BE SHOW'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN
• DOCTOR WHO: NEW COMPANN IS OPENLY GAY, BUT IT IS ‘NOT THE MA THG THAT DEF HER,’ SAYS PEARL MACKIE
• ‘DOCTOR WHO’: PEARL MACKIE WILL PLAY THE FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN THE SERI

DOCTOR WHO GETS FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN

Media ptn, "Bill’s gay and shouldn’t be a big al. "The new seri of Doctor Who will see the Time Lord joed by his first openly gay Potts's sexualy will be revealed pretty much straightaway her send le of dialogue when the show returns to BBC One on 15 April.

"She add: "It's important to say people are gay, people are black - there are also aliens the world as well so watch out for them. ""[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.

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

"Image source, BBC, Ray BurmistonImage ptn, Pearl Mackie will jo Peter Capaldi - who will appear his last seri of Doctor WhoGay and bisexual characters have featured Doctor Who before, such as Capta Jack and River Song, but this is the first time the Doctor's permanent pann has been openly gay. 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. 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.

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.

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

Gatwa, who prevly starred Sex Edutn, will not only be the fist Black Time Lord, but acrdg to Harris, will be "the first gay Doctor, " which Harris says is "super ol. (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.

'DOCTOR WHO' TO FEATURE ITS 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. 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.

‘DOCTOR WHO’ MAK HISTORY WH FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN

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.

DOCTOR WHO INTRODUC FIRST GAY COMPANN

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.

DOCTOR WHO SEASON 10 FEATUR 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. 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.

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

One particularly notable dividual was Michael Cashman, who was openly gay at the time of his stg Time-Flight. 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.

The clud Dallas Adams, whom Nathan-Turner scribed as "the largt gay palimony lawsu-wner English legal history"; Adams gut-starred Pla of Fire, where he played Peri Brown's stepfather Howard Foster, as well as the Doctor's android Kameln, who got stuck a physil form mimickg a silver-skned Foster for the remar of the episo. Kameln, Foster's form, is also briefly posssed by the Tremas Master the story; th, for a sgle scene at the end of Episo One, Foster technilly beme the first openly gay actor to play the Master on televisn.

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

Mark Gatiss, who has served as a major creative force on Doctor Who sce the 1990s, wrg var stori for TV, d, and prose format, not to mentn a handful of actg rol - beme 2003, the first openly gay actor any medium to portray a unique rnatn of the Master, albe a versn om a parallel universe, the Doctor Who Unbound d story, Sympathy for the Devil. One notable dividual to lend their talents to the Virg New Adventur range was openly gay Gareth Roberts, who later wrote for both televised Who as well as var episos of The Sarah Jane Adventur. Jam Goss, who has worked on a variety of projects for the BBC and for Big Fish, is gay.

His tenure as shownner saw him brg LGBT reprentatn to televised Who for the first time, begng wh the troductn of the TV show's first openly queer character durg the first seri - Jack Harkns, played by the openly gay John Barrowman.

DOCTOR WHO: NEW COMPANN IS OPENLY GAY, BUT IT IS ‘NOT THE MA THG THAT DEF HER,’ SAYS PEARL MACKIE

A large number of other gay actors have been st the seri, pecially durg Davi' tenure, such as Andrew Hayn-Smh and Rsell Tovey, both of whom played implicly queer characters - Hayn-Smh's se, wh an explic nnectn occurrg a scene that was ultimately cut. In 2017, Jam Dreyf, who had prevly portrayed John Harrison the fal Sarah Jane Adventur story The Man Who Never Was, beme the fourth openly gay actor to portray the Master, across three Big Fish d stori, The Dtatn Wars, The Home Guard, and The Psychic Circ. Openly gay actors John Ssns and Tony Slattery were nsired to play the Eighth Doctor.

Openly gay Rsell Tovey, who had already appeared as Alonso Frame Voyage of the Damned, dned to play the Eleventh Doctor, after beg remend to Steven Moffat's productn team by Davi. Openly gay Ben Daniels was among the actors shortlisted to play the Twelfth Doctor. One of the actors tipped to play the Thirteenth Doctor was openly gay Ben Whishaw.

The seri 1 episo Aliens of London was cricised for a scene where Rose Tyler lls the Nth Doctor "gay" after exprsg his displeasure at beg slapped by Jackie Tyler, wh objectns g om some fans regardg s e as an sult. ] Davi, an openly gay man himself, fend the le, sayg he was tryg to reflect how people talk real life.

‘DOCTOR WHO’: PEARL MACKIE WILL PLAY THE FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN THE SERI

"[43] Another fan would also refer to the Mar as an example of treatg gay characters "horribly. The only nnectn he uld make was that the character Tegana om Mar Polo was, beg "everythg you uld possibly associate wh dark forc", a p wearer of leather and th a potential "fantasy figure" for gay dience members. The openg of Arc of Infy has been referenced by fans as beg evotive feel to the openg of gay adult entertament vios, wh Rob Stuart's qutng of Col Frazer optg to sleep wh all of his cloth on the pump hoe beg often terpreted as an ditn of a sexual relatnship between the two (wh some drawg attentn to the fact that the duo have a hostel room booked for all the other days of their holiday trip).

[53][54] The homoerotic subtext has also been noted by reviewers. A scene Doctor Who seri 8 opener Deep Breath, where Madam Vastra giv oxygen to her wife Jenny Flt via a mouth-to-mouth kiss, generated 6 plats to Of, wh grievanc directed at what had been brand as the promotn of a "blatant gay agenda".

And there was even more LGBT+ reprentatn the form of Sarah Jane’s adopted son, Le, who by the time of the funeral has e out as gay, and has been happily married to Sanjay for five years. In 2019, Rsell T Davi told journalist and Doctor Who aficnado Darren Stt that the origal plans for Le to e out as gay were dropped the ed. “But then, amazgly, CBBC me to sayg, ‘Can you troduce a gay character to The Sarah Jane Adventur.