Queer As Folk Celebrates Its 18th Anniversary

Why? Because 18th anniversaries are regarded as one of the big landmarks of anything?

They mostly look good. Hal Sparks and Michele Clunie have a strange rubbery, plasticky look, but the rest are not bad.

I always had a crush on Mikey. Who is in the middle with his legs in the air? I cant tell who anyone is anymore they all look so different.

Isn't that Emmett, R3?

Yeah, it's Peter Paige, who lost his hair rather quickly after the show ended.

Gale Harold has an ugly beard!

Really OP? There is an active QAF folk thread already going. We don't need duplicate threads for a show from 20 years ago

Yes, R7, really.

R7 is a stupid cunt!

It’s ok Miss Mary OP. Glad you posted this.

Can we fend off the Gale fangirls?

R7 this is the 18th Anniversary thread of QAF

R12 link to the 17th Anniversary thread, please...

R13 there wasn't a magazine layout for it, the 18th does

The British original was LEAPS AND BOUNDS BETTER than this lukewarm shit.

The video isnt loading for me. Does Hal Sparks apologize for accepting his role and ruining every scene he’s in by his shitty acting and lack of charisma?

[quote]Gale Harold has an ugly beard!

What's her name?

Matt Battaglia needs to be there. Naked and presenting the hole.

Wait Gale and Hal in the same room together. WTF

Congrats QAF you were camp soapy fun. Really loved the lesbian storylines too. You were cool

Sharon Gless looks great.

Tired of it when it came out

I’ll ignore this from now on

Hal Sparks hole presentation please.

It's funny to hear the show's eldergay creators in the clip at OP talk about how a "new generation of gays" is finding the show when we all know what he means is a "new generation of fraus who are infatuated with gay men"

The show never seemed to draw much support from the gay community and was much more popular with middle aged straight women with portion control issues.

When it originally aired, QAF was just another Showtime show with bad reviews and a tiny audience.

Will EW do an anniversary photo shoot for Dead Like Me and Huff?

It's the 20th anniversary of the original superior QUEER AS FOLK, starring Aidan Gillen. Why isn't that being celebrated?

Curious: given how bent out of shape many DLers got about the age gap between Hammer and Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name, were they as bent out of shape about the age gaps both QAF?

IIRC, in the US version it was a 17 year old high school senior hooking up with a 30 year old ad exec and in the UK version, Hunnam's character was supposed to be a lot younger.

US version was likely helped by the fact that the actors didn't look to be markedly different ages, but were DLers of Yore as miffed about the age difference in 2000?

tired-ass cunts

Hal has definitely had work done.

But not enough R29

I think they all look as good or better than they did during the series' run. I just hope this doesn't reignite the Gale Harold troll.

There were just as many threads about QAF in its day as there were threads about Call Me last fall. Many threads were about how awful and unreal the show was including the age gaps in the relationships.

We didn’t have the FF or ignore buttons back them.

[quote]this is the 18th anniversary of QAF.

18th? Do they celebrate this yearly?

What is significant about 18 years that it deserves special commemorating?

^^^Bryan Singer

Has Sparks ever come out? Will he ever?

He was dumber than hammers, no thanks

R27 You again? Go and haunt the dreary as fuck CMBYN threads

WTF is Sparks doing with those BAD George Michael earrings?

Since Sparks was a complete asshole about having to kiss his male co-stars, I'm glad he wound up with that face.

R39 Did he act at all after QAF?

Thank you R32. Was curious what the reaction was back in the day.

R33 - Was clearly EW trying to figure out what to do for their annual gay issue and running out of ideas. Probably got pitched by someone's PR agent --maybe Gless's and they bit.

In the pictures this group could be mistaken for a gathering of the Low Testosterone Club. White jeans ? Mary !

I agree with the commenters above who noted that the original British version was far superior. The American version started strong but by the second season or so, when they had run through their adaptation of the original British scripts and started writing their own, the decline was precipitous. I stopped watching long before the series ended.

I'm glad they did this. Also Randy Harrison (Justin) looks still in his 20s, not 40.

I always liked Michael’s fag hag from early on in the series.

IIRC, Charlie Hunnam's character was only 15 when Aiden Gillan's Stuart fucked him.

At the time, because I was barely out of my teens myself and infatuated with older men, I thought it was hot. Now it strikes me as creepy. Why did Russell T. Davies make the character so young?

[quote] Why did Russell T. Davies make the character so young?

I think because the age of consent is the UK is 16 and they wanted the relationship to be that more daring. Also, it was Nathan's sexual awakening so it's true to life for him to be young and wanting to meet gay men. He had to find them in clubs, not risk outing himself at school.

I’ve watched both versions and thought the day deference was negligible and down to a case of cultural comfort.

Should be noted that Robert Gant is also part of this reunion.

This brings back so many special memories.... What an amazing re-boot that would be (one can only hope)!