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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
• DOCTOR WHO BEG PLAYED BY A GAY ACTOR WILL LEAD TO GAY PEOPLE WATCHG THE SHOW, WARN ‘ANTI-WOKE’ FANS
• OLLY ALEXANR SET TO BE NEW DOCTOR WHO AS FIRST GAY ACTOR TO PLAY TIME LORD
• DOCTOR WHO: NEIL PATRICK HARRIS CONFIRMS NCUTI GATWA'S DOCTOR IS GAY
• ‘VERY GAY, VERY TRANS’: THE CREDIBLE DOCTOR WHO SP-OFF THAT’S BREATHG NEW LIFE TO THE ANCHISE
• NEIL PATRICK HARRIS: NEW DOCTOR WHO WILL FEATURE 'FIRST GAY DOCTOR'
• DOCTOR WHO 'TO ST OLLY ALEXANR AS FIRST GAY ACTOR TO PLAY TIME LORD'

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

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.

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.

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

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. 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.

DOCTOR WHO BEG PLAYED BY A GAY ACTOR WILL LEAD TO GAY PEOPLE WATCHG THE SHOW, WARN ‘ANTI-WOKE’ FANS

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. 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.

OLLY ALEXANR SET TO BE NEW DOCTOR WHO AS FIRST GAY ACTOR TO PLAY TIME LORD

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.

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

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.

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.

‘VERY GAY, VERY TRANS’: THE CREDIBLE DOCTOR WHO SP-OFF THAT’S BREATHG NEW LIFE TO THE ANCHISE

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.

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.

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

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

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. 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.

DOCTOR WHO 'TO ST OLLY ALEXANR AS FIRST GAY ACTOR TO PLAY TIME LORD'

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.