So without further ado, here's there old QAF gang as they are now He went on to appear as Tommy Carcetti in three seasons of acclaimed HBO series The Wire between and , and is probably now most widely-recognised for his role as Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in that little-known fantasy show, Game of Thrones.
He most recently produced and starred in Trick or Treat , a gangster Brit flick, released in November A man who probably needs no introduction: After making his name as Queer As Folk 's wide-eyed-yet-troublesome schoolboy Nathan Maloney, Charlie Hunnam has gone on to forge a career as one of Hollywood's most in-demand leading men. Knowing this still didn't prepare me for Queer as Folk, a completely refreshing and no-holds-barred look at gay life that was aired on England's Channel 4 last year.
Queer As Folk takes place in, and around, the gay club scene in Manchester. Its eight episodes focus on three young gay men. Stuart, played by Aiden Gillen, is a party boy whose main priority is his "shag" for the evening. Craig Kelly plays his best friend, Vince, a fervent Dr. Who devotee who lives in Stuart's shadow. Both men are just months away from turning 30 while Nathan, played by Charlie Hunnam, is 15 and ventures into a gay bar for the first time.
He goes home with Stuart and is heartbroken later to discover that he was nothing more than just "another shag. Much of the series revolves around Stuart's shenanigans as he has sex with almost every good looking gay man in Manchester. In contrast, each man that Vince brings home is a disaster.
Equal time is also given to Nathan's coming out issues both at school and at home. Despite a supportive mother, Nathan runs away from home rather than face his bigoted father. While dealing with Stuart's rejection, he loses his innocence and even turns the tables on his first shag a few times. Nathan is not an angst-ridden suicidal gay teen-ager.
Out and proud, he mocks his schoolmates to his best friend Donna: "They're just kids. They're just talking. I'm doing it! Surrounding these men is a colorful assortment of friends who provide myriad subplots. A lesbian couple named Romy and Lisa use Stuart's sperm to have a baby. Stuart calls the baby "the most expensive wank [he] ever had" and spends little to no time with his son. Vince's mother hangs out at the clubs and lets Nathan stay at her place until he sorts out his problems at home.
She also befriends Nathan's mother, and tries to help the distraught woman to understand her son. Stuart is the series' most complex character. While seemingly a total jerk, he occasionally tries to do good.
An attempt to bring his young trick back home to his family backfires when Nathan's father sees them together. When a married client goes pubbing with him, and then plans to party for a few more days rather than go home, Stuart asks him if he's ready to abandon his family and then talks him into going home.
In one of the best scenes, a friend dies of an overdose and Stuart and Vince sneak into his apartment to clear out his porn before the man's mother comes to pack up his things. But his relationship with Vince is the crux of the series. Because they were friends since boyhood, Stuart is oblivious to Vince's true feelings for him. Queer As Folk has all the intrigues of a late night soap opera but it's all set in the queerest of millieus. The writing is very sharp and drama queens will love all the snappy lines.
Queer As Folk is the brainchild of writer Russell T. Making no apologies for presenting excesses on the party circuit, Queer As Folk is filled with loose sex, drugs and "morality" that would send the Rev.
Fred Phelps into a rubber room. Am I responsible? For the face, or the policy? When I say that I don't know, I really mean it. I will never know. Far away from the real world, in TV Land, which is orange and smells of pop, plans were being made. Queer As Folk was officially a success. Channel 4 commissioned a second series of 10 hour-long episodes, and we My heart wasn't in it. I didn't want this to continue. A story should tell the one, special time in a character's life. Invent new stories, and you're saying that all their times are special, and I don't believe that.
I also wonder if the size of the reaction to the first series didn't make me run away. I'm not sure success teaches you much.
Even the people who loved the show made me back off a little. The writer Paul Cornell once told me, "Writers shouldn't be leading the parade, they should be watching it.
So I wrote a short sequel and finished the lives of Stuart and Vince. Plenty of people hate that ending, but for once I'm not allowing any doubters. I love it. And anyone else who loves it has the ride of their life. If you get left behind, tough. Right at the end, they become mythologised, and fictionalised, and they're frozen in a moment from which they could never return.
The end. We had another press launch. The same journalists reappeared, this time claiming that they'd always loved it. We transmitted, and the ratings were slightly lower - maybe our instincts were right, and the moment had passed. But you've all seen those horror films where the body refuses to die.
Even Buffy couldn't kill this one. The show went around the world, trailing its blizzard of arguments. And Nicola and I suddenly found ourselves dining at Claridge's with Joel Schumacher, who was determined to get an American version on air. We were expecting a brutal, coked-up Hollywood mogul, with a whip and jodhpurs and a panther on a chain. Instead, we found a kind, gentle, wise, compassionate man. Damn it. Gay sex was still banned between more than two people. Photographing or distributing sexual material and gay sex that occurred anywhere other than in an empty private residence were also banned.
An aggressive, targeted police campaign saw convictions for gay sex rise by per cent in the s, continuing into the early eighties. In — a year before Queer as Folk premiered — seven men in Bolton were convicted under these laws and two were given suspended jail terms. When Queer as Folk debuted in , Section 28 — the government policy that banned the promotion or mention of homosexuality in public authorities — was still in effect.
As a dramatisation of gay urban life in the s , Stuart, Vince, and Nathan are just as much characters as gay male archetypes. Throughout the show, its protagonists were faced with difficult dilemmas.
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