The writer of Doctor Who spin-off Class has revealed one of the lead characters will be LGBT.

Patrick Ness announced the news on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/Patrick_Ness/status/742419775918333953

https://twitter.com/Patrick_Ness/status/742420136771133440

https://twitter.com/Patrick_Ness/status/742454873204088832

https://twitter.com/Patrick_Ness/status/742458934812913664

We don’t know yet if the character will be played by Greg Austin, Fady Elsayed or another lead cast member.

Of course Doctor Who has featured a gay man before in the shape of John Barrowman’s Captain Jack Harness who also became one half of the Who-niverse’s most beloved couples with Ianto Jones in Torchwood.