Russell T. Davies on why Doctor Who has so many LGBT fans

For Doctor Who head writer Russell T Davies, watching the series in the mid-1980s paralleled his feelings about his own sexuality. “Being gay was ‘the love that dare not speak its name’ and Doctor Who shared that feature as well by that time," he says. "It was a cheap, old, mad science fiction show. You couldn’t say you fancied anyone, and who couldn’t say that you loved Doctor Who.”“Before that, when I was a…