What happens in America, then comes here. The Don’t Se Gay movement proves we can’t relax. I think we need more and more – we have thousands of years of straight stories, we have a long way to go before we can catch up.Īnd there is danger in the air. You’ve really struggled to get LGBTQ+ inclusion on the small screen, what are your hopes or ambitions for LGBTQ+ representation that you still want to achieve or see happen?
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I do my work, but no one has ever changed the law because of TV shows. Oh, it’s a pity, but I think a lot of the hard work is done by activists and charitable workers and fighters like Peter Tachel.
more happy!ĭo you take pride in knowing that you are doing so, and by doing so you are paving the way for self-acceptance for generations to come? That’s why we need more images, more visibility for everyone from the youngest, so a wider, more diverse world becomes more natural, more real, more accepted. If you learned it when you were one, then you cringe at it changing, even if that change is the harmless existence of something else. Whether it’s your parent’s childhood notion, or Jesus and the apostles, or a boy kissing a girl. And especially when a fundamental visual image is changed. More and more, I find that people take offense – and become prejudiced without even realizing – when they imagine that something less has happened from their childhood. It’s a Sin was one of the most influential shows in recent memory (Picture: Channel 4) There’s nothing there.” How important is it to you to weave LGBTQ+ narratives into the culture so that history doesn’t repeat itself? , and there’s not even the slightest danger of any child getting infected because there’s not a gay man or woman anywhere. One of the most powerful moments for me in It’s a Sin is when Ash is ordered to examine all the books in the library to remove any homosexual references and he declares: “I have read literature and culture and science and Looked at all the huge halls of art. The other day, I had to write a character I hadn’t written for 32 years, but she was there, just stepping into the spotlight, like I’ve never gone away. They all live on in my mind, they really do this, they’ll be pissed. Improves each other!ĭo you have a favorite character that you have created? Life changes all the time, fantasy can be anything, I love it when science-fiction becomes real, and I love it when reality rises.
I guess I don’t see the limits of the genre. On a similar note, you often walk the line (or rather mix ideas) between science fiction and raw humanity so beautifully, is that important to you? Why? Those stories will be on my mind, no matter what work I’m doing, I was born with them, they won’t stop. Yes, there is a technical side that demands that you deliver 70 pages on Monday, or 500 people can’t do their job. What inspired you to write? I know it’s a small question, but your work has such a weak quality Are you compelled by something visceral, or do you sometimes write just because you have work to finish? One set for the whole college, those were the days! In fact, I think I was in shock to find myself somewhere where you can’t watch TV. I know what you mean, I’ve never felt better at home. How did you feel as a working class boy from Wales? John’s but after 6 weeks, I found out I was out of my depth and just didn’t fit in. How was your time at Oxford? I started out in St.
Here, .uk guest entertainment editor John White talks to Davis about his career and the importance of LGBTQ+ representation on screen. Davis used an all LGBTQ+ cast for his LGBTQ+ characters, and as soon as he took over Doctor Who, he cast the first black gay man as Time Lord alongside black trans female partners in Nkuti Gatwa and Yasmin Finney, respectively.