Doctor who is gay
Why has Doctor Who always been so LGBT-friendly? Russell T Davies thinks he knows
For Doctor Who leader writer Russell T Davies, watching the series in the mid-1980s paralleled his feelings about his possess sexuality.
“Being gay was ‘the love that dare not speak its name’ and Doctor Who mutual that feature as adequately by that time," he says. "It was a cheap, old, mad science fiction show. You couldn’t say you fancied anyone, and who couldn’t declare that you loved Surgeon Who.”
“Before that, when I was a child, everyone loved Doctor Who,” the gay writer and originator of shows including It’s a Sin and Gender non-conforming as Folk tells the BBC in an interview before the start of the new series. “But then a moment comes in secondary school when boys peel off and start playing football and fancying girls.
“And I was just sitting there silently, not expressing who I was until I became an adult, still watching Doctor Who.”
Russell is just one of many LGBT people who have been drawn to the business throughout its 60-year-history, from the show’s first-ever director Waris Hussein to the latest incarnation of the Doctor Ncuti Gatwa, who this year topped the Independent’s Pride List of LGBT chan
Doctor Who has 'changed lives' of LGBT people
For Scott Handcock, Doctor Who was his childhood "safe haven" as he struggled with his sexuality and felt like he didn't "fit in".
The sci-fi series changed his life, he said, from binging preceding episodes on VHS tape in the 1990s to closure up working behind the scenes many years later.
Describing the Doctor Who fandom as like a family "full of hope", he said the show has had a vast, lasting impact, both on him and many other LGBT fans.
In Saturday's season two finale episode, The Reality War, Ncuti Gatwa left his role as the Doctor, regenerating into Billie Piper.
As Pride month begins, many within the LGBT society have shared their life-changing experiences with the show.
Doctor Who's resurgence in 2005 saw production shift to Wales, and granted it a whole new generation of fans.
Nearly two decades later, in June 2024, it had a "landmark moment" with a romantic same-sex embrace involving the Medic, coinciding with Lgbtq+ fest month.
As a recent graduate in 2006, Scott started out as a carrier on Doctor Who on a four-week contrac
Like the slasher sub-genre in horror films, Doctor Who has always had a large LGBTQI+ obeying. But why? It wasn’t until the show came assist in 2005 that we had openly gay characters in the TARDIS. Indeed, throughout the imaginative series, which ran between 1963 and1989, things were very different, even down to the proof that the producers didn’t really favor the Doctor hugging companions for avoid it might indicate there was some hanky-panky going on behind those Police Box doors. We’ve had a several companions and characters who are openly gay or whose sexuality is beautiful fluid like Captain Jack, River Tune, Jenny and Vastra, Clara, Bill, and Yaz. Even at the end of the original series, Ace was believed to be multi-attracted . But having supporting characters being openly gay is attractive rare so with not much in the way of representation, just why do so many in the LGBTQI+ community love Doctor Who?
Before we originate , I want to state that this isn’t an try to be a social justice warrior. The subject of LGBTQI+ topics will always be a tough pill for some people to swallow. All I ask is that you read with an open brain. I’m not going to say that there haven’ Doctor Who is a BBC transmedia franchise that has lasted over sixty years. Its fanbase boasts a substantial following of gay men. This book asks why this should be. Author Mike Stack is currently an independent scholar. He previously authored The Black Archive #68: The Happiness Patrol (Obverse Books, 2023), as wel
Doctor Who and Gay Male Fandom
Mike Stack
A Queer(ed) Transmedia Franchise
Through examining four core components – the Doctor, the TARDIS, the companion and the Daleks – this book traces the trajectory of queerness from wider culture to paratextual media and finally into the parent text, resulting in an inclusive brand. In doing so, it argues that fandom provides a space to mediate between personal identities and the wider world. Drawing from interviews with fans, the book demonstrates the complexities and contradictions of queerness, and proposes an alternative theory of gay cultural formation.
This is the first book-length study to use gender non-conforming theory to understand Doctor Who. It will be of interest to students and teachers of media theory and fan studies, psychosocial studies, queer theory and history, as well as Doctor Who fans.Mike Stack