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The Gay Daleks Done Right

Once upon a decade British comedian, broadcaster and iconoclast Victor Lewis-Smith ran a series of sketches on his TV show TV Offal dubbed "The Gay Daleks" based on what he saw as their high camp voices.

I'm going to say that "it was of a different age", epitomised by its tag-line, "They're gay, they exterminate, better watch your backs". LGBTQ-friendly it was not, but for some it was a rare, much wished for, combination of gay culture and geek culture combined on mainstream television.

Lewis-Smith, at the time, wrote,

I was concerned that the show might be misinterpreted as anti-gay but I needn't have worried.
The healthy postbag demonstrated that these weekly tales of the metallic homonauts quickly attracted a substantial gay audience, who enjoyed the surreal and absurd take on their lifestyle, particularly the scenes set in a public lavatory.

It also concentrated a lot on the attractiveness of Conservative politician Michael Portillo, who later came out as gay after much media speculation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfxyvrW-lUs

That was well before Russell Davies was able to reinvent Doctor Who and add little sexual fluidity onscreen.

Well, as seen at Gay Pride in London yesterday Seattle last year, it has been reclaimed somewhat.

As photographed by Paul Condon.

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