For the first time in its 60 year history, Doctor Who's hero will be played by an openly queer star—but that's only just one step among many for its showrunner.
Ncuti Gatwa ’s Doctor Who debut last year broke the mold for many reasons, but for one excellent one among many, it meant that for the first time ever fans got to be introduced to a Doctor played by an openly queer man—and playing a Doctor unafraid of acknowledging that, either. “Do you know what? It makes perfect sense to me,” told Variety recently in a wide-ranging story about his casting as the 15th Doctor.
Most of the contemporary incarnations of the Doctor have been defined by straight-presenting romantic relationships, but even then they’ve all played on and discussed their own concept of queer attraction in passing moments, or, perhaps even more appropriately for the Doctor, a being who has spent eons travelling across all of time and space, attraction that goes beyond human understandings of gender.
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