I've been having bad luck with tv shows lately. First I went through 14 episodes of Insecure, on Netflix, about two black women looking for love and sex, because it had a gay character, Ahmal, played by Jean Eli. He was interviewed extensively about what it felt like to play a gay character, how he tried to subvert stereotypes, and so on. Dude appeared for only a few seconds in each episode, when his sister called to ask his advice on something, or when she brings him as her date to a party. He is shown with a man just once, cooking, for three seconds.
But at least there were a lot of hot black guys, such as Jay Ellis, who showed their backsides as they sexified the ladies.
I've been watching the tenth series of Doctor Who (2016-17) under the impression that the Time Lord's companion Nardole is gay. He's sassy and snippy, he's dismissive of female companion Bill, he hides in another alien's crotch, and he acts like he's quite smitten with this blue-skinned fellow.
Besides, actor Matt Lucas is gay.
Then, in Episode 10.6, Nardole mentions an old girlfriend.
Doctor Who often features gay characters. Bill is herself a lesbian, and has fallen for women twice so far. So why the queerbaiting?
It took a lot of research to find the identity of the blue-skinned guy -- IMBD didn't know, Google thought he was 2012-13 gay video star Justin LeBeau (top photo), and the Tardis Fandom website calls him Dahh-Ren, played by Peter Caulfield of the gay British series Cucumber .
More after the break