Doctor Who and Gay Male Fandom

Mike Stack is currently an independent scholar. He previously authored The Black Archive #68: The Happiness Patrol (Obverse Books, 2023), as well as pieces on Arthur C. Clarke, The Tomorrow People, and the science of sex within Doctor Who.

“Stack examines Doctor Who from the perspective of queer fandom, deftly uncovering its queer resonances…. He wisely grounds his argument in early statistical analysis showing that Doctor Who fans are likelier to be gay than the population average. What could have been reductive or essentialist instead remains attentive to complexity… The interviewees’ voices add a human depth… Stack’s chapter on the TARDIS is the book’s pinnacle… His textual analysis is dizzyingly expansive… superb….”Tom May, Northumbria University, UK, in Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies 20(3)

• Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1 - Fan Identities: Defining Fandom and Quantifying the Doctor Who Gay Male Following, Chapter 2 - The Doctor: The Hero's Queer Masculinity, Performance and Contradictory Morality, Chapter 3 - The TARDIS: The Queer History of the Police Box and the Possibilities of Space, Chapter 4 - The Companion: Queering Cross-Gender Relations and Childhood Play, Chapter 5 - The Monster: The Queer Reception of the Daleks, Conclusion: Will the Queerness of Doctor Who Fandom Change?, Index