"Doctor Who is probably the most gay friendly show on our screens"

why?

Really? Is anyone able to elaborate on this slightly odd claim? Or is this a case of trying to force convergence where there really isn't any?

Since The first instance of Captain Jack hitting our screens there's always been that slight undercurrent. Torchwood was a complete gay love nest, with gay and lesbian love in pretty much every episode. The problem is I don't want a Dr Who that cops off with male companions. For that matter I don't want the simpering that the current Dr Who has with his female companions. Episodes today all seem to be about "oh, isn't the Dr simply wonderful".

Give me a horde of Daleks trying to conquer the universe any day...

The only explanation I can think of for this bizarre claim is that David Tennant does tend to camp it up as the doctor. He's no Tom Baker, that's for sure.

Probably because it is made by the same guy who brought us Queer as Folk... erm... it is filmed in Wales, wales have gay people like daffid (only gay in the villiage) and Aled Jones (Radio One)...... errrrr.... Captain Jack is omni-sexual (he loves to love everything! )..... ok, i give up.... no idea!! :)

Ohhhh oh oh - leading guy who never "does" any of his companions, great dress sense, gets on with all the ladies... sounds very gay to me!! XD

Surely the most gay friendly has to be Doctor Queer As Folk Who aka Torchwood.

Pandering to the supposed "needs" of the viewing populous? Eep no, more likely the team of staff writers has been infiltrated by a camp Cyberman who has succeeded in his mission of ridding the world of the Doctor by removing him from our screens.

I knew they'd win in the end, if Tom Baker couldn't stop them then Billy Piper (and her whorish, yet appealing mouth) certainly had no chance what-so-ever.

Doctor Who and sci-fi in general are often popular with people who have non standard sexuality, because they show other worlds and other ways of living different from our own. Of course, there's also the hint of 'confirmed bachelor' in all the pre-revival Doctors.

There's such a cross over that my local sci-fi shop sells Gay Times next to Dr Who magazine!

You can't talk about Dr Who and gay in the same sentence without reference to the legendary Victor-Lewis Smith and a program called TV Offal which had some Gay Daleks.

Take a look on YouTube here: http://tinyurl.com/3ddpdf

Hilarious.

I propose a name change then.

Out with Dr Who and let's all give a warm hand to... Dr Yoo-hoo !

Doctor Who has far more in common with Captain Kirk..

..they both come in a blue box.

(coat is on and I'm out the door and onto the bus before you read that one)

Huh, wont go to the festival if it means missing favourite programme on the telly... what a bunch of puffs!!!

oh... wait...

Doctor Who has at times in the past been very camp and theatrical and is currently made by gay writer Russel T Davies and stars John Barrowman. It doesn't promote gay sexuality, or in fact sexuality in general, but is very accepting of it.

Doctor Who is a show that has always been about tolerance and accepting others, whether black, gay or dalek.

gaylords AND timelords?? awesome!

Many episodes in the current series have had little references querying the Doctor's sexuality. Captain Jack of course, and then there's Torchwood which is definitely "out" there.

RTD would of course just do his silly giggle and say "oh it's all just a bit of fun".

but back in the old days, the Dr was always coming out of his gaint blue closet...

FEED THE TROLL

FEED THE TROLL

FEED THE TROLL

;-D

It's clearly gay-friendly! Every single episode seems to have some sort of gay-issues propaganda in it!

Take Utopia, for example:

The Doctor: When I look at you, you're just wrong.

Jack: Don't you think that's prejudiced?

(or words to that effect). Clearly appealing to members of any sidelined identity grouping!

The characters in a story don't actually have to be gay to make the agenda present, it's more about issues of alternate/outsider identity. *has written a thesis about this*