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Returng om the filmg of the latt season of Doctor Who, Neil Patrick Harris nfirms the Ncuti Gatwa will be the first gay Doctor

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DOCTOR WHO 'PROMOT A GAY AGENDA', VIEWERS PLA TO BBC

Followg cricism of that 'Bury Your Gays' moment the New Year special, Doctor Who's Praxs episo provis meangful LGBTQ+ reprentatn. * doctor who gay marriage *

"Jam Pardon//BBCUnfortunately, this era's most notable LGBTQ+ character (up until now) beme famo for all the wrong last year's New Year's Day special, a gay character was killed off ls than thirty sends after his sexualy was revealed.

'Bury Your Gays' refers to an old Hollywood trope where queer-d characters were punished — and often murred — simply for beg who they are.

DOCTOR WHO: NEIL PATRICK HARRIS CONFIRMS NCUTI GATWA'S DOCTOR IS GAY

Y, we've had a queer pann on the show before — and let's not fet that Torchwood gave the gays everythg they wanted too. It's almost like the wrers liberately misled here, settg up a 'Bury Your Gays' moment only to subvert pletely, and hontly, that wouldn't surprise one b.

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.

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

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Doctor Who: Neil Patrick Harris Confirms Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor Is Gay .

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