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Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies has warned that the LGBTQ+ community should be ‘revolting in terror’ against the rise of far-right politicians such as the Reform party. Speaking to Big Issue to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Cucumber, Davies discussed the rise of far right politics in the UK – in particular, Nigel Farage’s Reform party – and what the queer community should be doing in response. “It’s funny. When Queer as Folk came out in 1999, if you’d said, what will gay rights be like in 2025, we’d have said, ‘Oh, it will all be marvellous. It’ll be sunshine and skipping down the street, hand in hand – gays, queers, lesbians, everyone,'” he told the publication. “And look at where we are. Things got better. But now things are rapidly and urgently getting worse. What happens in America always happens here – and as we look down the barrel of a Reform government, we, the gay community, queer community, should be revolting in terror and anger and action.” “They’re out to...

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