Back in the nineties everybody was talking about Queer as Folk. Some were talking about the excessive sex; some were talking about the reckless drug use; some were talking about the appalling language; but most were talking about how bloody good it was.
The acclaimed Queer as Folk follows the lives of three friends. There’s the enigmatic hedonist Stuart (Aidan Gillen); a sexual superhero capable of seducing a man using a PowerPoint presentation. There’s sci-fi fan Vince (Craig Kelly); Stuart’s shy acolyte. And there’s Nathan (Charlie Hunnam): a fifteen year old boy who hasn’t so much come out of the closet as exploded out of it. Nathan hits the Manchester gay scene loaded with hormones and enthusiasm, but lacking in subtlety and tact.
Yes it’s shocking, but don’t let that put you off. As Oscar Wilde said ‘There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.’ Admittedly, Queer as Folk isn’t a book; it’s a drama series, but then again it’s not well written; it’s brilliantly written.
Robert Jackman
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