You’ve really fought for inclusion of LGBTQ+ on the small screen, what are your hopes or ambitions for LGBTQ+ representation that you still want to achieve or would like to see happen?
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I do my bit, but no one ever changed the law because of a TV show. Oh that’s kind, but I think the great hard work is done by activists and charity workers and fighters like Peter Tatchell.
More happy!ĭoes it make you feel proud to know that you are doing this, and that in doing so you are paving the way of self-acceptance for generations to come? So that’s why we need more images, more visibility, for everyone, from the youngest age, so a wider, diverse world becomes more natural, more real, more accepted. If you learnt it when you were one, then you get upset when it’s changed, even if that change is simply the harmless existence of something other. There is nothing.” How important is it for you to weave the LGBTQ+ narrative into culture so that history doesn’t repeat itself? One of the most powerful moments for me in It’s a Sin is when Ash is ordered to check all the books in the library to remove any gay references and he declares: “I looked at all the vast halls of literature and culture and science and art, and there is not the slightest danger of any child ever being infected because there’s not one gay man or woman anywhere. The other day, I had to write a character I hadn’t written for 32 years, but there she was, just stepping into the spotlight, like I’d never been away. They all live in in my head, they really do, they’d be offended. Have you got a favourite character you’ve created? Life changes all the time, fiction can be anything, I love it when sci-fi gets real, and I love it when reality gets heightened. I think I just don’t see the borders of genre. On a similar note, you often walk the line between (or rather blend the ideas of) science fiction and raw humanity so beautifully, is that important to you? Why? Those stories would be in my head no matter what job I was doing, I was born with them, they won’t stop. Yes, there’s a technical side that demands you deliver 70 pages on Monday, or 500 people can’t do their jobs. I think! I suppose it has to be visceral. What inspired you to write? I know that’s a bit of an insipid question, but your work has such a vulnerable quality to it are you compelled from something visceral, or do you sometimes write simply because you have a job to finish? One set for the whole college, those were the days! Really, I think I was in shock to find myself somewhere you couldn’t watch TV.
Although maybe that’s just what 18 feels like. I know what you mean, I never felt quite at home. How did you feel there as a working-class lad from Wales? John’s but after 6 weeks, I knew that I was out of my depth and just didn’t fit in. What was your time at Oxford like? I started at St. Here, .uk’s Guest Entertainment editor John Whaite talks to Davies about his career and the importance of LGBTQ+ representation on screen.
Davies used an all LGBTQ+ cast for his LGBTQ+ characters, and as he takes over Doctor Who he has cast the first Black gay male as the Time Lord with a Black trans female companion in Ncuti Gatwa and Yasmin Finney respectively.