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Contents:
- HOW QUEER AS FOLK BEME THE DEFG GAY TV SHOW OF A GENERATN—TWICE
- THE QUEER AS FOLK REBOOT IS PUTTG GAY ACTORS GAY ROL
HOW QUEER AS FOLK BEME THE DEFG GAY TV SHOW OF A GENERATN—TWICE
Queer as Folk: Created by Ron Cowen, Daniel Lipman, Rsell T. Davi. Wh Michelle Clunie, Thea Gill, Gale Harold, Randy Harrison. Brash humor and genue emotn make up this seri revolvg around the liv, lov, ambns, reers and iendships of a group of gay men and women livg on Liberty Avenue ntemporary Ptsburgh, PA." data-id="ma * gay queer as folk *
In an era of creasgly equent—if often imperfect—queer reprentatn media, might be difficult for the young target dience of Peack’s new reboot of the classic Queer as Folk to image that a show followg a group of gay men Ptsburgh livg relatively average liv uld have created a new paradigm for how gay and lbian stori would be told on televisn. So often lled “ground-breakg” that the scriptn might start to sound tre if weren’t also te, Queer as Folk put gay people and queer storyl ont and center a way that even other media of the time promently featurg gay characters, like Will & Grace, had yet to do.
K., and provid many young queer people’s first exposure to gayns not amed as eher a dly tertg sishow attractn alongsi a straight person’s “real story, ” or an abject tragedy. Davi was chg to wre somethg he felt accurately ptured not only the reali of beg a gay man Manchter, but also the broar experience of growg up and disverg who you are.
The show premiered 1999 on Channel 4, and followed three men and their iends Manchter’s Canal street area, known as the Gay Village. Both versns of Queer as Folk followed homogeno ma sts of whe, cisgenr people, most of whom were their 20s and 30s.
THE QUEER AS FOLK REBOOT IS PUTTG GAY ACTORS GAY ROL
Though each versn provid unprecented gay reprentatn, the lack of diversy race and genr exprsn the show leav out any reprentatn of trans people and people of lor the queer muny. Queer as Folks received somewhat mixed early receptn om both nservative forc unhappy to see a show centered on gay people airg on a major work, and queer people who felt the show relied too heavily on stereotyp and lacked diversy.
Versn was also cricized for not featurg the AIDS crisis s plotl, nsirg how severely was affectg the gay muny at the time the show was ma. When the show premiered, gay marriage was illegal every state the untry, and 14 stat had sodomy laws.
In 1999, Harrison land his first televisn actg gig, takg on the ma character of 17-year-old Jt Taylor, who is disowned by his parents after g out as gay. He quickly fds a new fay a group of gay men after fallg for Brian Kney.