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'Rogue's' Queer Kiss Is Groundbreaking, but Not for the Reasons Doctor Who Fans Think

Summary

  • Doctor Who's "Rogue" episode introduces the first queer romance for the Fifteenth Doctor, building on past LGBTQ+ themes in the series.
  • The Doctor's kiss with Rogue sets the stage for potential future appearances, hinting at a recurring relationship with the time-traveling hero.
  • This episode marks a significant moment in Doctor Who history, explicitly portraying the Doctor as queer and embracing a romantic same-gender relationship.

The following contains spoilers for Doctor Who, Season 1, Episode 6, "Rogue," now streaming on Disney+ and BBC iPlayer.

The sixth episode of Doctor Who, Season 1, "Rogue," featured a whirlwind romance for the Doctor unlike any other in the series' history. "Rogue" saw the Surgeon and Ruby traveling to England's Regency era for a Doctor Who episode with heavy overtones of Bridgerton. Of course, all was not as it seemed. The Doctor and Ruby soon discovered they were not the only

Every Same Sex Kiss In Doctor Who

Summary

  • Doctor Who has included LGBTQ+ content since its reboot, with same-sex kisses being showcased in various episodes.
  • The series has evolved to be more inclusive, featuring openly queer characters like Captain Jack Harkness and Bill Potts.
  • Recent romantic scenes between the Doctor and same-sex partners like Rogue highlight a new milestone in LGBTQ+ representation.

The recent kiss between Doctor Who's Rogue and the Medic was not the only same-sex kiss in the long-running series' history. One significant way the reboot differs from the classic series is in its inclusion of LGBTQ+ content. The long-running sci-fi series debuted in , before homosexuality was legal in the United Kingdom, and during its early years it would not include been acceptable for a family-friendly program to include any romantic scenes between the title character and anyone, especially not someone of the same sex. This led many actors who played Doctor Who to declare the character was asexual.

The series' attitude toward LGBTQ+ characters was chan

Queer kisses in Doctor Who are nothing new

As my neighbours who portered me can confirm, my friends and I have sung, shouted and screamed our way through most of the new season of Doctor Who– and were perhaps loudest during ‘Rogue’. The episode saw Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor develop a romance with the suave (read: hot) D&D nerd (read: really hot) and bounty hunter played by Jonathan Groff, culminating in a tear-jerking kiss and tragically abrupt ending. Favor clockwork, an onslaught of newspaper articles (which hold since been hastily edited) celebrated the “first same-sex kiss” in the show’s year history – just in time for Pride Month and a herald of the new, Disney-fied era to come.

“The first same-sex kiss occurred 19 years ago in the explosive season one finale”

Except it isn’t. The first same-sex kiss occurred 19 years ago in the explosive season one finale between Christopher Eccleston’s Medic (a butch icon, we can agree) and Captain Jack Harkness. Subsequently, there have been kisses between the Doctor and Rory, Jenny and Vastra, Bill and Heather, and Jake and Ad

I&#;ve never gotten into Doctor Who, the long running British television show which has 14 different actors playing The Doctor in its over 60 year run. But I am a huge fan of Ncuti Gatwa (Sex Education, Barbie). Congrats to the talented young actor for landing such a coveted role and breaking two glass ceilings in the process! From Vulture,

It’s about time (lord)! After 60 years of being on the air, Doctor Who has finally featured its first ever same-sex kiss between the Doctor (currently played by Ncuti Gatwa) and a bounty hunter named Rogue (Jonathan Groff) in an episode set in the British Regency period. Leave it to the always-wet Jonathan Groff to break a year dry spell. Despite initially suspicious of one another, the two characters soon team up to fight the shape-shifting Chuldurs — just how all great gay romances start — and ultimately distribute a kiss by the episode’s end. Over the course of the series’s over 60 year sprint, 14 actors have taken on the role of the shape-shifting Doctor, but Gatwa is the first to identify as queer, and the first Dark actor to play