Ncuti Gatwa Will Be Gay Doctor Who, Says Neil Patrick Harris – IndieWire

Contents:

• CONFIRMATN OF FIRST GAY DOCTOR PROMIS A QUEER ERA OF DOCTOR WHO
• DOCTOR WHO: NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SAYS NCUTI GATWA WILL BE 'THE FIRST GAY DOCTOR'
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS NFIRMS NCUTI GATWA WILL BE ‘A B SEXIER AND THE FIRST GAY’ TIME LORD DOCTOR WHO
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SAYS NCUTI GATWA WILL BE FIRST GAY DOCTOR ‘SEXIER’ NEW ‘DOCTOR WHO’
• NCUTI GATWA WILL BE THE FIRST GAY DOCTOR, SAYS NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: NEW DOCTOR WHO WILL FEATURE 'FIRST GAY DOCTOR'
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS REVEALS NCUTI GATWA WILL PLAY THE FIRST GAY DOCTOR WHO
• DOCTOR WHO GETS FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN
• DOCTOR WHO ACTOR NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SAYS NCTUI GATWA WILL PORTRAY FRANCHISE’S “FIRST GAY DOCTOR”
• DOCTOR WHO: NEIL PATRICK HARRIS CONFIRMS NCUTI GATWA'S DOCTOR IS GAY
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SAYS NCUTI GATWA WILL BE THE FIRST GAY DOCTOR ‘DOCTOR WHO’
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SAYS NCUTI GATWA WILL PORTRAY THE “FIRST GAY DOCTOR”

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.

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. Harris will star alongsi Gatwa the upg 60th anniversary Patrick Harris has revealed that Ncuti Gatwa will play the first gay Time Lord the new seri of Doctor returng om shootg the new season of Doctor Who, Harris gave fans a ltle b of sight to what they n expect om the 14th Doctor. He assured fans listeng to Variety's Jt for Variety podst that Gatwa will her a new era of the semal sci-fi seri as he is not only playg a "sexier" rnatn of the Time Lord but will also be appearg as "the first gay Doctor.

DOCTOR WHO: NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SAYS NCUTI GATWA WILL BE 'THE FIRST GAY DOCTOR'

"He'll be the first gay Doctor, which is gog to be super ol, a sexier Doctor. Neil will be jog the Doctor Who fay for the 2023 special(Picture: Getty Imag)‘He’ll be the first gay Doctor, which is gog to be super ol, a sexier Doctor, ’ he add to Variety. Harris revealed on Variety’s Jt for Variety podst that Gatwa will “be the first gay Doctor, which is gog to be super ol” and that the “Sex Edutn” alum’s take mak for a “sexier Doctor” the seri.

Gatwa also played a gay role, as teen Eric, on the Netflix g-of-age seri. 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. Neil Patrick Harris, who is set to star Doctor Who's 60th Anniversary Special, says new Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, will be the show's first gay Doctor.

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS NFIRMS NCUTI GATWA WILL BE ‘A B SEXIER AND THE FIRST GAY’ TIME LORD DOCTOR WHO

Neil Patrick Harris stat that Ncuti Gatwa is set to be the first gay Doctor the BBC seri, Doctor Who. In an terview wh Variety, Harris revealed Gatwa is the first gay Doctor. He also nfirmed he'll be the first gay Doctor and a much sexier and oler Doctor.

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SAYS NCUTI GATWA WILL BE FIRST GAY DOCTOR ‘SEXIER’ NEW ‘DOCTOR WHO’

He’ll be the first gay Doctor, which is gog to be super ol, a sexier Doctor. It also means Gutwa's Doctor is gog to be very groundbreakg as the first mory and first gay Doctor.

Gatwa is tly makg history as the first gay Doctor and viewers n't wa to see his impact on Doctor Who and the show's future.

NCUTI GATWA WILL BE THE FIRST GAY DOCTOR, SAYS NEIL PATRICK HARRIS

Not only is Sex Edutn‘s Ncuti Gatwa the first Black actor to play the Time Lord, he will also be the first gay Doctor the BBC’s Doctor Who. In , he scrib the character to be a “sexier” rnatn of his prev portrayals and “the first gay Doctor” the sci-fi seri. “He’ll be the first gay Doctor, which is gog to be super ol, a sexier Doctor.

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.

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

"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. Speakg to his experience filmg his as-of-yet-unnamed-role Rsell T Davi’ upg return to Doctor Who, actor Neil Patrick Harris appears to have nfirmed that g seri lead Nctui Gatwa will portray the “first gay Doctor” anchise history. And he’ll be the first ‘gay Doctor’, which is gog to be super ol.

NEXT: BBC Lnch New “Very Gay, Very Trans” Doctor Who Aud Drama Podst. Returng om the filmg of the latt season of Doctor Who, Neil Patrick Harris nfirms the Ncuti Gatwa will be the first gay Doctor. Doctor Who actor Neil Patrick Harris nfirmed that the 14th rernatn of The Doctor, played by actor Ncuti Gatwa, is gay.

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS REVEALS NCUTI GATWA WILL PLAY THE FIRST GAY DOCTOR WHO

In a recent terview wh Variety, Harris revealed that Gatwa will be the first gay Doctor the seri. "He’ll be the first gay Doctor, which is gog to be super ol, a sexier Doctor.

While the seri has been open about The Doctor's fluid sexualy and genr inty the seri, Gatwa's versn of The Doctor would be the first time he's openly gay.

Davi, who is gay himself, is returng for the 60th anniversary. Gatwa beg the first gay Doctor will not be the only first the 60th-anniversary special.

DOCTOR WHO GETS FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN

In a recent terview wh Variety, Neil Patrick Harris said that Ncuti Gatwa will be playg the first gay Doctor. In the terview, Harris said that Gatwa is “Glor … he’ll be the first gay Doctor, which is gog to be super ol, a sexier Doctor. (DOC: LGBTQ In The Worlds Of Doctor Who) Ined, the show began before homosexualy was crimalised England & Wal 1967[4], and Stland 1980.

DOCTOR WHO ACTOR NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SAYS NCTUI GATWA WILL PORTRAY FRANCHISE’S “FIRST GAY DOCTOR”

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.

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

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...

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SAYS NCUTI GATWA WILL BE THE FIRST GAY DOCTOR ‘DOCTOR WHO’

- 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.

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SAYS NCUTI GATWA WILL PORTRAY THE “FIRST GAY DOCTOR”

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. 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.