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Russell T. Davies Calls LGBTQ Doctor Who "Perfectly Safe For Children To Watch" Admitting He Warped The Character As A Self-Insert

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Jul 08, 2025
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Russell T. Davies went on the talk show, Your Manchester, and there he admitted that he tried to twist Doctor Who into an LGBTQIA+ show trying to reject sci-fi that was “very straight, very masculine, very testosterone-y.”

The Doctor has always been a very masculine figure in all of Doctor Who history. The original character was a caring grandfather with…

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