“I was really fast-forwarding between the sex scenes,” he admits.
version at 12 years old in his parents’ basement with the volume muted. The new Queer As Folk premieres June 9 on Peacock, and creator Stephen Dunn bills it as a reimagining as opposed to a reboot or a revival (more on that later). The American version, for instance, featured the very first sex scene between two men shown on American television - and in the pilot episode, no less. Queer As Folk was unapologetic in presenting queerness without sanitization. Its mere existence felt subversive to a mainstream culture only a few years after Ellen Degeneres came out on her series Ellen - and her show was canceled a year later. Here was an ensemble cast made of up LGBTQ characters, living and thriving out loud in a world that made them the axis. Davies), it was immediately hailed as groundbreaking. original on Channel 4 in 1999 and the American version on Showtime in 2000, both created by Russell T.
“It is okay,” he would tell her - because that is the point. “Is that OK for me to say?” Kim Cattrall would sometimes ask director Stephen Dunn on the set of Queer As Folk. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram for more. Evan Ross Katz is In The Know’s pop culture contributor.
