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Admittedly, these personal journeys might be less frequently seen in real life than on TV.

We also see Hunter, an HIV positive minor, settle in his new adoptive family and a second life away from teen prostitution. In the course of five seasons, we see Justin evolve from a homeless teenager banished by his family to an ambitious artist, offered a roof by queer friends and allies ranging from his high school best friend to his first love. But in more abstract вЂ“ and important вЂ“ ways, their bond is strengthened by a duty they take upon themselves to protect their own. The group of central characters consisting of five gay men and a lesbian couple, Lindsay and Melanie, form a family that literally shares blood, as the two women bear children biologically fathered by their gay friends. A sentiment so widely acknowledged among queer folks living on Liberty Avenue, it can only be described as family value. And the aggregation of movements and voices exudes a shared power that refuses to be denied.Д«ut the sense of community in Queer As Folk, despite the abounding explicit sex scenes, is not shown through unabashed promiscuity. Looking for sex is the extertion of a freedom thatвЂ™s otherwise hindered in the outside world. Sex in the back room is a collective protest. Babylon for the queers in Pittsburgh is a literal shelter: outside on the street, theyвЂ™re disregarded, insulted, beaten and murdered inside thereвЂ™s only them among themselves, huddled together in darkness with some that desire them, and the others that they desire. Brian, good-looking and successful at his job, has to work extra hard to earn respect as an openly gay man. Ted is an under-appreciated accountant, chronically taken for granted at work at night, his confidence is repeatedly knocked on the dance floor, where young meat is favoured over middle-aged men like him. Michael, for example, goes so far as to date a female colleague in pretence, just so his long-awaited promotion at the supermarket would not be compromised. It appears at least once in each episode, where the group of four friends, Michael, Brian, Ted, and Emmett, would meet up after a long day at work and, for some of them, a day of hiding their sexualities and therefore getting mistaken for being straight.

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In fact, I vividly remember several of my lockdown clubbing dreams all taking place in various shapes at Babylon, a place full of glam and glitter, and too good to exist in last yearвЂ™s reality.Д«abylon is where you see the biggest crowd in the show. I remember how I motivated myself at the start of another online day with two episodes (which in hindsight must have been more, since I got through five seasons within two months), and feeling that I, too, was having breakfast at Liberty Diner in Pittsburgh, beginning a new day with last nightвЂ™s gossips at the queer nightclub Babylon. I, for one, was grateful for the large cast in the show, back when I was cooped up at home and socialising on a screen. To manyвЂ™s surprise, it quickly hit first place on the network ShowtimeвЂ™s roster after its initial release, despite the prediction that the viewship would primarily consist of gay and lesbian audiences.

Adapted from Russell T DaviesвЂ™ original in 1999, the show was the first hour-long drama to feature homosexual men and women in the history of American television, as well as the first to include detailed depiction of sex between men. I was glad that I binged the American Queer As Folk instead of another round of Friends back in March 2020.