'Sherlock' -creator Steven Moffat recently told Entertament Weekly that Sherlock Holm is not gay. He's not straight eher.
Contents:
- GIVG DOCTOR WHO A GAY PANN IS STEVEN MOFFAT'S SMARTT MOVE YET. NOW LET'S HOPE HE KEEPS HER ALIVE
- 'DOCTOR WHO' BOSS WANTS TO STOP MAKG A FS ABOUT A GAY CHARACTER, ALREADY
- ‘DOCTOR WHO’ WRER RPONDS TO BACKLASH OVER FIRST GAY PANN
- DOCTOR WHO WRER DISMISS GAY ASSISTANT FURORE AS NONSENSE
- STEVEN MOFFAT SURPRISED AT 'FS' OVER DOCTOR WHO HAVG GAY PANN
- STEVEN MOFFAT SAYS 'STOP THE FS' OVER GAY DOCTOR WHO PANN
- STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT GAY
- STEVEN MOFFAT SAYS WE ‘SHOULDN’T MAKE A FS’ ABOUT NEW DOCTOR WHO PANN BILL BEG GAY
- ‘SHERLOCK’ SHOWNNERS BUNK GAY MORS NEW TERVIEW
- SHERLOCK IS ‘NOT GAY, BUT NOT STRAIGHT EHER’ ACRDG TO STEVEN MOFFAT
- STEVEN MOFFAT: WE OWE TO CHILDREN NOT TO MAKE A FS ABOUT HAVG A GAY DOCTOR WHO PANN
GIVG DOCTOR WHO A GAY PANN IS STEVEN MOFFAT'S SMARTT MOVE YET. NOW LET'S HOPE HE KEEPS HER ALIVE
'Doctor Who' shownner Steven Moffat said we should stop makg a 'fs' about Pearl Mackie's character beg gay. * steven moffat gay *
Now the sonic screwdriver-wieldg sci-fi stutn has clocked up another first, wh news that the Doctor’s next pann Bill Potts (played by relative unknown Pearl Mackie) will be the first openly gay Tardis traveller. The seri has long had gay nnectns and a fervent gay fanbase. It was revived 2005 by wrer Rsell T Davi, prevly bt known for notor Neti gay drama Queer As Folk - which one of the three central characters, supermarket manager Vce (Craig Kelly), had a full-size K9 toy and extensive Doctor Who vio llectn.
Doctor Who’s prev gay or bisexual characters clu Alex Kgston's River Song, John Barrowman's Capta Jack Harkns (scribed as “pansexual”, as he also had relatnships wh non-humans) and Neve McIntosh's Silurian lizard Madame Vastra - who ed a kerfuffle when she was shown kissg her human wife Jenny (played by Catr Stewart) 2014 and the BBC ntroversially cut this scene for the Asian market. However, when Mackie jos Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor this Easter, will be the first time that the Time Lord’s ma pann has been picted as gay.
Compared to gay men, lbians tend to be overlooked on televisn. Sure, soaps have the odd token gay women and “yoof” shows make nods towards reprentatn. Lbian characters also tend to die a lot - a phenomenon dubbed “Dead Lbian Syndrome” or “Bury Your Gays”, which se TV lbians nearly always nied happy endgs.
'DOCTOR WHO' BOSS WANTS TO STOP MAKG A FS ABOUT A GAY CHARACTER, ALREADY
Steven Moffat says rponse to pictn of Doctor’s latt sikick as a gay woman should be: what took you so long? * steven moffat gay *
From Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Tara to Brooksi’s Beth Jordache, om Sks’ Naomi to The 100’s Lexa, om Hoe Of Cards’ Rachel Posner to Xena: Warrr Prcs, gay femal all too often meet an untimely mise. Even if you're not the biggt Doctor Who fan, chanc are you've read the recent headl about the Doctor's new pann beg gay.
"I mean, people are gay. Doctor Who wrer Steven Moffat has rpond to a backlash om some fans over news that the show’s next pann will be the first s history to be openly gay.
‘DOCTOR WHO’ WRER RPONDS TO BACKLASH OVER FIRST GAY PANN
Steven Moffat says everyone should stop the fs over the new pann Doctor Who beg gay. * steven moffat gay *
Last week was nfirmed that Mackie’s character would be picted as gay. Although the show has ntaed numero gay characters, none have featured as full time panns to the Doctor. It’s important to say people are gay, people are black – there are also aliens the world, so watch out for them.
DOCTOR WHO WRER DISMISS GAY ASSISTANT FURORE AS NONSENSE
“[Beg gay] is not the ma thg that f [Potts’] character – ’s somethg that’s part of her and somethg that she’s very happy and very fortable wh. ” Of urse Sherlock’s not gay, eher, bee “he wouldn’t be livg wh a man if he thought men were tertg. Moffat is happy that he has given Brish entertament such sweepg diversy, like when he ma his only gay character fall love wh a man, or when he gave all a plex array of three different women who fell love wh the Doctor childhood, as “imprsnable young girl[s]” who then “live for the days” when they meet him aga.
STEVEN MOFFAT SURPRISED AT 'FS' OVER DOCTOR WHO HAVG GAY PANN
If they were watchg, he’d have to make them characters or somethg, which would be weird, bee his gay characters are “gog through a phase” anyway, like Irene Adler was before she met the man who uld turn her straight. The Doctor Who wrer Steven Moffat has dismissed the furore that greeted the news that the Doctor’s latt assistant will be a gay woman as “nonsense” and said nstuted the “mimal level of reprentatn” we should see on Mackie, who will play Bill Potts seri 10 of the revived BBC show, revealed this week that her character was to be the first openly gay pann to the said he had been taken aback by “all the fs” the news had generated.
’”The sexualy of Potts is ma evint om the first episo, which will air over Easter weekend, and featur a female love tert which go Who has featured gay and bisexual characters before, such as John Barrowman’s Capta Jack Harkns, Neve McIntosh’s Vastra and Alex Kgston’s River Song. But this is the first time the Doctor’s ma pann has been picted as said that was damagg for the younger dience of Doctor Who to make seem like beg gay was anythg but ordary, and said when me to acceptance of homosexualy, younger people were “much wiser”. “People are gay, so yeah.
Steven Moffat on The Doctor and gay marriage.
STEVEN MOFFAT SAYS 'STOP THE FS' OVER GAY DOCTOR WHO PANN
Theres always been the odd outright hateful ment such as Moffat might as well have feted on Elisabeth Slans grave ( reference to The Impossible Astront beg dited to the late Elisabeth Slan), but the past few weeks thgs have been taken up a notch wh accatns of misogyny and homophobia beg levelled at Moffat, and mours of ath threats beg tweeted to him.
STEVEN MOFFAT WANTS YOU TO KNOW THAT ‘SHERLOCK’ IS DEFELY NOT GAY
Ill al wh the sheer lunacy and repulsivens of this later but, for now, lets foc on the ridiculo accatns of misogyny and homophobia. So thk on that while you acce Moffat of misogyny and homophobia. The episo A Good Man Go To War is a rnupia of evince that Moffat is neher homophobic or misogynistic.
So given that this was arguably Moffats most important episo so far, if he had some kd of prejudice agast gay people, why would he clu an omnisexual character played by an openly gay actor? The episos only characters that are both female and gay.
STEVEN MOFFAT SAYS WE ‘SHOULDN’T MAKE A FS’ ABOUT NEW DOCTOR WHO PANN BILL BEG GAY
If Moffat were homophobic, Vastra and Jenny would eher have not been clud, would have been killed off horribly, or been ed to cricise homosexualy. His characterisatn and ntued e of them is ample proof that hes not a homophobe. He is openly gay and, by the end of Seri Seven, he will have wrten twice as many episos of Doctor Who unr Steven Moffat than he did unr Rsell T.
If Moffat was a homophobe, he wouldnt have touched Gatiss wh a barge pole.
Davi gay agenda: You e across the ocsnal nutter who will talk about Rsell's gay agenda - I image he keeps a pk folr a special leopardsk safe - but this is possibly the most heterosexual Doctor we've ever had.
‘SHERLOCK’ SHOWNNERS BUNK GAY MORS NEW TERVIEW
Clearly, Rsell's gay agenda is to turn everyone straight. and one about the amount of gay jok he clus I've got the rerd for gay jok.
I've got the gayt joke of all time Doctor Who - I've got the 'beard' joke about the Master. Obvly, if youre gog to lu yourself that Moffat is misogynistic and homophobic, then the ramblgs of a neteen year old stunt like me probably arent gog to change that. Doctor Who shownner Steven Moffat was surprised about the “fs” ed by the reveal that the Time Lord would have the show’s first openly gay pann the new seri.
LGBT characters have featured the popular seri before, cludg John Barrowman’s Capta Jack and River Song, but Bill will be the programme’s first openly gay permanent Who’s Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie (BBC/PA)Talkg at a screeng of the first episo at London’s Ham Yard Hotel, Steven said: “When she did that terview we didn’t know there was gog to be all of that fs.
SHERLOCK IS ‘NOT GAY, BUT NOT STRAIGHT EHER’ ACRDG TO STEVEN MOFFAT
Steven Moffat says everyone should "stop the fs" over the new pann 'Doctor Who' beg gay. Moffat was surprised by the attentn Pearl's revelatn that her alter ego is openly homosexual garnered and sists isn't a big al the world of 'Doctor Who' as there have been lots of gay characters troduced sce me back to TV screens 2005, such as bisexual time traveller Capta Jack Harkns (John Barrowman) and ter-speci lbian uple Silurian tective Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh) and Jenny Flt (Catr Stewart).
Moffat, 55, also believ 's important to not make such a big al out of the fact that Bill is gay bee any children and young people watchg who uld be workg out their own sexualy should be reassured by programm like 'Doctor Who' that's OK to be homosexual. Could Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holm actually be…gay? But everyone wants to believe he’s gay.
He’s not gay. So he’s not gay or straight. Steven Moffat says we ‘shouldn’t make a fs’ about new Doctor Who pann Bill beg gay.
STEVEN MOFFAT: WE OWE TO CHILDREN NOT TO MAKE A FS ABOUT HAVG A GAY DOCTOR WHO PANN
Pearl Mackie’s Bill will be the first ever openly gay pann (Picture: Ray Burmiston)Steven Moffat don’t thk there should be ‘fs’ about the sexualy of new Doctor Who pann Bill. Actor Pearl Mackie revealed an terview wh the BBC that Bill will be the show’s first ever openly gay pann.
They sound pretty tired of the speculatn, followg a Comic-Con panel where Moffat spoke general terms about wrg gay characters on mastream TV—which some fans then misterpreted as a veiled ht about Sherlock.