Doctor Who Has His First Gay Kiss Ever After 60 Years

It’s about time (lord)! After 60 years of being on the air, Doctor Who has finally featured its first ever same-sex kiss between the Doctor (currently played by Ncuti Gatwa) and a bounty hunter named Rogue (Jonathan Groff) in an episode set in the British Regency period. Leave it to the always-wet Jonathan Groff to break a 60-year dry spell. Despite initially suspicious of one another, the two characters soon team up to fight the shape-shifting Chuldurs — just how all great gay romances begin — and ultimately share a kiss by the episode’s end. Over the course of the series’s over 60 year run, 14 actors have taken on the role of the shape-shifting Doctor, but Gatwa is the first to identify as queer, and the first Black actor to play the role for a full season.