Is Ruby Sunday bisexual in the new Doctor Who season? The holiday special officially welcomes the Doctor's companion in preparation for season 14. Here's what the long-running sci-fi series showed Whovians about Ruby.
CONTENT SPOILERS: This article contains spoilers for Doctor Who Holiday Special: The Church on Ruby Road, so proceed with caution.
Is Ruby Sunday Bisexual in Doctor Who?
The recent Christmas special, The Church on Ruby Road, introduces the fifteenth Doctor (played by Sex Education's Ncuti Gatwa) and his companion, Ruby Sunday (Coronation Streets' Millie Gibson) as they explore the truth behind Ruby's birth.
Since the special episode focuses on Ruby's identity, the 50-minute storyline also explores her sexuality. Ruby is confirmed to be an openly bisexual character, surrounded by queer friends and families.
This brought even more fans on board that the new Doctor Who series (season 14 onwards) is going in a better direction:
In fact, when Ruby first met the Doctor (before finding out he was the Doctor), the fifteenth was wearing a skirt and dancing at the center of the bar, with their flair catching the attention of Ruby watching them from her table.
"It's part of the reason Doctor Who has such a huge connection to LGBT people," Gatwa explained, "We choose our families. And the Doctor is a lonely wanderer, looking for their next adventure... I know a gay man, MANY a gay man, I could describe that way!"
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Doctor Who Season 14 Brings More Diversity to the Series
The Doctor Who series has been expanding its diversity ever since the thirteenth Doctor was played by a woman (played by Jodie Whitaker) for once.
Apart from playing a woman at the time, her own companion, Yasmin Khan (Mandip Gill), developed romantic feelings for the Doctor.
The next thing we knew, the 60th-anniversary specials not only featured the grand reunion of the fourteenth Doctor (David Tennant) and Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) but also introduced a transwoman character, Donna's daughter, aka Rose Noble (Yasmin Finney).
While the earliest seasons of Doctor Who didn't explicitly state the LGBT themes present on the show, we did get a glimpse of some of the recurring characters.
One prominent example is Captain Jack Harkness, a pansexual time agent from the 51st century.
Even though the Doctor hasn't disclosed his gender, keep in mind that they canonically described themself as "a man, a woman, both, and neither" in the Doctor Who special, The Star Beast.
As show creator Russell T Davies previously said, he has been "introducing queer character, after queer character, after queer character" since 1999. "The world isn't straight. The world is everything, every shape and type out there is possible."
"The notion of a straight world does not exist," Davies added, saying that it's a celebration, "It's a joyful thing rather than a mission."
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