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=== Actors to play the Doctor === | === Actors to play the Doctor === | ||
To date | To date, the only openly LGBTQ actors to have portrayed the Doctor in any medium remain [[Geoffrey Bayldon]] and [[Mark Gatiss]]. Bayldon was originally offered the role of the [[First Doctor]], and ultimately voiced an [[The Doctor (Auld Mortality)|alternate universe incarnation]] of him in the ''[[Doctor Who Unbound]]'' audio stories ''[[Auld Mortality (audio story)|Auld Mortality]]'' and ''[[A Storm of Angels (audio story)|A Storm of Angels]]''. [[Mark Gatiss]], meanwhile, played a [[The Doctor (The Web of Caves)|"generic" Doctor]] in the licensed parody sketch ''[[The Web of Caves (TV story)|The Web of Caves]]''. | ||
A number of LGBTQ actors had been considered to play the Doctor on screen. Openly gay actors [[John Sessions]] and {{w|Tony Slattery}} were considered to play the [[Eighth Doctor]].<ref>Segal, Philip; Gary Russell (2000). Doctor Who:Regeneration. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-710591-6.</ref> | A number of LGBTQ actors had been considered to play the Doctor on screen. Openly gay actors [[John Sessions]] and {{w|Tony Slattery}} were considered to play the [[Eighth Doctor]].<ref>Segal, Philip; Gary Russell (2000). Doctor Who:Regeneration. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-710591-6.</ref> | ||
