WHET to the cast of the American version of Queer as Folk?

Check your local convenience store/gas station.

The little dark one is on the radio.

These talentless hacks were not even a footnote in TV history.

There is an a single negative stereotype that that show did not reinforce. Even the name is hate speech. Being expected to like crap just because gay people made it is why gay men still stay in the closet.

These talentless hacks were not even a footnote in TV history.

There is NOT an a single negative stereotype that that show did not reinforce. Even the name is hate speech. Being expected to like crap just because gay people made it is why gay men still stay in the closet.

r4 has a point!

So does r3!

Peter Paige made that creepy movie with Kathy Najimy where he played a single gay man who approaches and plays with strangers' kids. Unbelievably creepy.

R4- QAF was a MEDIOCRE show at best , but at least it didn't feature a EUNUCH FAGGOT character like Will on Will and Grace . He was a GAY URBAN FAGGOT fantasy for straight women. He'll take you dancing and to the theater and you can sit in the park and check out and gossip about the cute guys- YUCK.

R1-Ha

That guy with the GRUBBY head from The Cosby Show was found to be working in a Trader Joe's in New Jersey.

I like Trader Joe's and they pay a good wage but it's still a letdown for an actor.

The American version was such crap. It was popular because gays were desperate for representation at the time.

Are you ready for the reboot? I'm not, after reading this:

As the series is set in New Orleans, we are all hoping to see more people of color, and specifically, Black queer men, on this iteration of Queer as Folk. Including trans and more female characters (and their sex scenes!) wouldn't hurt either. But most of all, we're excited to see queer actors play roles where they can be proudly out and get the focus their stories deserve.

Michelle Clunie became Bryan Singer's babymomma.

R11- I could VOMIT from that review.

[quote]The American version was such crap. It was popular because gays were desperate for representation at the time.

We wanted GOOD representation. We wanted gay characters who are multi-dimensional and believable played by actors who can actually act, not bland prettyboys.

[quote][R4]- QAF was a MEDIOCRE show at best , but at least it didn't feature a EUNUCH FAGGOT character like Will on Will and Grace . He was a GAY URBAN FAGGOT fantasy for straight women. He'll take you dancing and to the theater and you can sit in the park and check out and gossip about the cute guys- YUCK.

I know, right?

The American QAF was about sexual freedom being expressed on television. You didn't just see furtive groping, you got the whole thing - sucking, fucking, post-coital pillow talk. It was groundbreaking in that regard. The writing and some of the acting, however, was atrocious.

Then it wasn't worth it. Who cares if a show is "groundbreaking" if it reinforces hurtful stereotypes of gay people in addition to being badly written and acted?

We were hungry for sexuality that was honestly expressed that wasn't pornography. So in some ways, in the beginning at least, R17, I believe that it was worth it. I loved Sharon Gless in it. She was the best actor in the whole cast.

R18- ACTRESS not actor

It was worse than pornography because at least pornography doesn't pretend to be something it isn't. The producers projected their own internalized homophobia onto this show's critics; those critics were right then and even more right now.

As DLers know all to well, the show was immensely popular with straight female viewers, some of whom became obsessed with Harold and Harrison in the same way that we now see happening with Hammer and Chalamet.

There are dozens if not hundreds of DL threads about them

Back then I wanted to destroy Hal's hole nightly!

This show is not who we are. Let it die.

Those fans were legit scary r21. I remember one of them claimed they paid a voodoo “priestess” or something to cast a spell so that Brian and the twink guy’s characters would end up together. Just a bizarre group.

Hal Sparks is a Freemason.

>>know all too well,

Gay men are women. Lesbians are men. I'm glad the remake will be acknowledging that.

Take that, Punky BrewsTERF!

Hal is a regular on lez Stephanie Miller's radio show.

Hal has never married.

Hal Sparks is a homophobe. He compared kissing a man to kissing a dog which is the same as comparing homosexuality to bestiality.

Agree R24

They were still very active when I found DL three or four years ago.

One of the first threads I'd (naively) read was one of them bragging that she's somehow tricked one of Harold's cousins into letting her follow her on Instagram by pretending to be someone the cousin knew in high school. Purpose being to maker her way through all the photos the cousin had posted over the years, in the hopes of finding Gale in one of them.

It was one of those "we're not in Kansas" moments.

Not much.

Why is it that gay people have to settle for demeaning and degrading stereotypes that no other marginalized group would tolerate?

I'm baffled as to why a 20 year old show sets you off so much R33.

You've posted around 10 times on this thread about how much you loathe the show.

I really hate soap operas, so I've never once posted in a thread about them.

Why must we be stuck with this embarrassing relic of a less enlightened time?

God, hard to believe it was 20 years ago. Equally hard to believe it was ONLY 20 years ago.

Gale Harold did a few things (Vanished, Desperate Housewives, Hellcats, The Secret Circle, Defiance) along with a handful of cameos.

Hal Sparks did several guest spots, and a couple of series I never heard of.

Randy Harrison hasn't done much at all (one series "New York Is Dead" and a few guest spots or bit parts).

Peter Paige seems to be keeping busy, with lots of producer credits, some writing credits, and some acting credits.

Scott Lowell seems to be doing fine, working on series like American Dad, Bones, Adaptable, and a lot of guest-spot appearances on other shows.

Robert Gant has probably had the best career, with TV and Movie roles galore.

R37 Half of them, at least, are kept men.

Chris Potter, who played Hal Sparks' boyfriend for a while...what's he doing?

R39 Rose, there’s the internet, honey.

Peter Paige produced "The Fosters" and its follow-up.

The reboot sounds like it will be a dreary woke slog of QUEER BIPOC TRANS TRANS TRANS NON-BINARY writers creations (all of them SASSY yet victimized!) which will look like a sequel to the embarrassing POSE and kill off the IP for good.

I could be wrong, but...

They should try to make it more like this: