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It’s hard to overstate the impact of Queer as Folk for those, like me, who grew up gay the late 90s. The sharply wrten and unpromisg cktail of hedonism, humour and human drama saw mastream TV feature gay characters whout rortg to phemism or uchg their sexualy terms of shame or tragedy.
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The first is disappotment that the show’s characters portray a negative image of gay men as sex-obssed narcissists. The send argu that Cucumber shouldn’t have to be all thgs to all gay people. We should be celebratg the fact that a show unpromisgly gay enough to feature a lengthy monologue about Ryan Reynolds’ penis is beg aired at all.
An anthology seri focg on a broar spectm of LGBTQ characters, not only is a sharper, more tightly wrten show, but also has the potential to serve as a great sprgboard for up-and-g gay wrers and performers. It would have been a better, braver choice for a Channel 4 flagship urse, we have ma signifint stris gay reprentatn sce 1999, and gay characters are more visible mastream drama and edy than ever before. Gay televisn dramas need to be ee to fail, and gay characters to be fully round human begs rather than walkg issu.
And yet, for s, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people rarely ever saw displays of affectn. It may appear quat now, when we have TV seri like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latx teen explorg sexual fluidy) or Netflix’s Bondg (about sex work and alternative sexualy), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGener g out on her s 1997 was a bombshell that didn’t necsarily nvce the works that they’d open the gat to LGBTQ experienc.
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Luckily Will & Grace buted 1998 and the groundbreakg NBC seri nvced many that gay people might not be so toxic (and wouldn’t sre off advertisers) — so much so that Vice Print Joe Bin later creded wh changg his md about same-sex marriage. Dpe the fact that lns of Amerins wnsed two men raise a happy and healthy dghter om the fort of their livg room sofas, took a fan mpaign to lobby Disney-owned ABC to fally allow Mchell (gay actor Jse Tyler Fergon) and Cameron (straight actor Eric Stontreet) to kiss ( fally happened 2010). For years, ranged, perverse, and spible homosexuals were on full display — pecially om Ryan Murphy, who remas our most proment culture czar when to queer characters on TV.
But he’s also supplied at least one murro (ghostly) gay man on Amerin Horror Story and too many crazi on Nip/Tuck to unt.
From the Roy Cohn-flected Army-McCarthy heargs — which was the first time many people heard the word “homosexual” uttered on TV — through the “don’t ask, don’t tell” Neti, that clud The Goln Girls and Digng Women, to our current glter-and-glam era of RuPl’s Drag Race and almost-anythg-go pansexualy.