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he's with a beautiful woman all the time and never looks at her sexually. All I ask is that you read with an open mind. Susan Q, who becomes Ace’s friend, says at one point:

“I’m tired of… smiling and pretending I’m something I’m not.”

This line is particularly evocative of a conversation that someone might have while coming out and at the start of this story, a man walks up to a sad woman and offers her a card, telling her it is an address where she can be with other killjoys.

Another of the Doctor’s companions in the novels was Sam who travelled with The Eighth Doctor. Turlough has been in the employ of the Black Guardian, who has been trying to kill the Doctor since 1978.

Most recently, companion Yasmin Khan fell in love with the Thirteenth Doctor and while fans seemed to really want the pair to be in a relationship, the Doctor didn’t, preferring them to just stay friends.

People often criticise him, blaming him for the show’s eventual end, ignoring the input of the then-director general Michael Grade. The same year as Terminus aired, the BBC aired Killer in the Village, looking at the disease, theories on it, and early ways of treating it, no doubt though many just attributed the name of the documentary to the virus without actually learning how it was transmitted or caught.

We’ve had a few companions and characters who are openly gay or whose sexuality is pretty fluid like Captain Jack, River Song, Jenny and Vastra, Clara, Bill, and Yaz. Even at the end of the original series, Ace was believed to be bisexual. One can’t underestimate how important Jack was at the time. Again, much like the Cybermen’s ideologies, so long as there is bigotry and prejudices in the world, there will always be the dangerous seeds of hatred and jealousy.

In 1967, things began to change (even if they didn’t get much better), with it no longer being illegal to be in a relationship with another person of the same gender.

The Daleks have no reason to pursue the Thals, other than they are different from them and the Doctor isn’t going to have that. This is possibly why so many people from different communities and walks of life love the character so much. The inclusion of stunt casting under the eye of producer, John Nathan-Turner, certainly added to the air of camp.

Much of British television throughout the ’60s and ’70s was stuffed with antifascist themes. This allowed the show to run for four seasons, which seemingly gave Davies' successors Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall the confidence to be bold in their LGBTQIA presentation.

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Moffat was the first to introduce a full-time lesbian companion to Doctor Who when he cast bisexual actor Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts.

He even gets to kiss the Doctor goodbye in The Parting of the Ways. But the Doctor continued to fight for justice no matter who you were. Indeed, throughout the original series, which ran between 1963 and1989, things were very different, even down to the fact that the producers didn’t really like the Doctor hugging companions for fear it might imply there was some hanky-panky going on behind those Police Box doors.

But what did it take for the BBC to finally get comfortable having an all-queer TARDIS team this time around?

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Looking back on the revival Doctor Who era, it all started with Davies himself when he cast John Barrowman -- a gay actor -- as the first pansexual companion to Christopher Eccleston's 9th Doctor, Captain Jack Harkness.