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Contents:
- NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SAYS NCUTI GATWA WILL BE FIRST GAY DOCTOR ‘SEXIER’ NEW ‘DOCTOR WHO’
- CONFIRMATN OF FIRST GAY DOCTOR PROMIS A QUEER ERA OF DOCTOR WHO
- NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: NEW DOCTOR WHO WILL FEATURE 'FIRST GAY DOCTOR'
- DOCTOR WHO BEG PLAYED BY A GAY ACTOR WILL LEAD TO GAY PEOPLE WATCHG THE SHOW, WARN ‘ANTI-WOKE’ FANS
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS SAYS NCUTI GATWA WILL BE FIRST GAY DOCTOR ‘SEXIER’ NEW ‘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. * doctor who gay actor *
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.
(DOC: LGBTQ In The Worlds Of Doctor Who) Ined, the show began before homosexualy was crimalised England & Wal 1967[4], and Stland 1980.
CONFIRMATN OF FIRST GAY DOCTOR PROMIS A QUEER ERA OF DOCTOR WHO
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.
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: NEW DOCTOR WHO WILL FEATURE 'FIRST GAY DOCTOR'
Beyond televisn, 2011 brought the First Doctor a gay male pann om the 1960s, Oliver Harper.
DOCTOR WHO BEG PLAYED BY A GAY ACTOR WILL LEAD TO GAY PEOPLE WATCHG THE SHOW, WARN ‘ANTI-WOKE’ FANS
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.