Nine kissed a guy but for the major audience that didn’t confirmed the doctor as queer, because Jack initiated the kiss
Ten said „you can kiss me later“ but it was considered a joke
11 literally kissed Rory on the lips and got himself a robot boyfriend but it was just seen as a joke again, showing how impulsive he is, but certainly not queer
12 talked about being genderqueer and having a male crush, but this was only seen as him confirming that his character can change genders
13, a female doctor, talked about her wife and had a love story with a woman, but it wasn’t taken seriously because the wife was something she got from her male self, and because she didn’t kissed Yaz it wasn’t actually queer
14 talked about thinking guys are cute but this was only Donna pushing it on him
People had to literally see 15 actively locking lips with another male person, to finally acknowledge that the doctor is queer…
doctor who was kissing men on the lips in 2005. how do you fuck up your journalism badly enough to say we’re getting the doctor’s first gay kiss nineteen fucking years later holy shit
they set an episode in 1813 and the background music has violin renditions of Billie Eilish's Bad Guy and Lady Gaga's Poker Face oh they think they're so funny