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The Queering of a Time Lord

Queer Theory and Doctor Who
by Brendan Jones

A thesis submitted to the University of Western Sydney as partial fulfilment
for the degree of Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - October 2005

Episode 1: The Velvet Web
Episode 2: The Dead Planet
Episode 3: A Change of Identity
Episode 4: Flight Through Eternity
Episode 5: Checkmate
Glossary and Bibliography

Acknowledgements

To my family – parents Helen and Arthur, nan Sheila, brother Chris and sister Megan –
for encouraging and supporting me in my university education.

To my long suffering supervisor Dr David McInnes, who was more than happy not watching Doctor Who,
and who waited patiently for my somewhat late drafts.

To Dr Stephen Drakeley and Prof Leon Cantrell for running a great program,
and Prof Peter Kirkpatrick for extra advice on Flânerie.

To the whole of this year’s Honours class for always having open ears, wild stories, new perspectives
and some particularly nice bums. Do I need ethics clearance to say that?

To the DWCA Committee and OG forum for chipping in feedback and advice on stories I could do.
In particular James Sellwood for proofreading and Todd Beilby for pizza and unlimited utterances of “That’s nice.”

To everyone who understood, or pretended to understand, that I wasn’t saying the Doctor was gay.

To everyone ever involved in making Doctor Who. Even Matthew Waterhouse.

And to Peter Beckett and Barbara Thompson who proved, once and for all,
that loving Doctor Who wasn’t always a kids’ thing.