#Queer as folk uk series#

When offered a test drive of a Jeep by a car salesman who makes some homophobic comments, Stuart drives the car straight through the large window of the car dealership. He invites Vince's female work colleague, who has a crush on closeted Vince, to Vince's birthday party and then introduces Vince's boyfriend. He blows up a car belonging to his friend Alexander's antagonistic mother (in the second series). Stuart's principal characteristic is that he does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, however he wants. Stuart, an advertising executive, possesses intrinsic power, able to bend anything to his will.

The producers say that Queer as Folk, although superficially a realistic depiction of gay urban life in the 1990s, is meant as a fantasy, and that Stuart, Vince, and Nathan are not so much characters as gay male archetypes. 15-year-old Nathan Maloney ( Charlie Hunnam) is new to the gay scene but is not lacking in self-confidence. His long-time friend Vince Tyler ( Craig Kelly), who has a crush on Stuart, has less luck regarding men. The main characters are Stuart Alan Jones ( Aidan Gillen), who is highly sexually active, and successfully so.

#Queer as folk uk series#

Davies had originally titled the series this, although at the suggestion of Channel 4 executives for a period during its development and pre-production it was known as Queer as Fuck, before it reverted to the former name. The title of the programme comes from a dialect expression from some parts of Northern England, 'there's nowt so queer as folk', meaning 'there's nothing as strange as people' which plays on the modern day English synonym of ' queer', meaning homosexual. Queer as Folk was produced by the Red Production Company for Channel 4. The first series was re-shown on More 4 between 14 and 18 October 2007, as part of Channel 4's 25th-birthday celebrations.

Both Queer as Folk and Queer as Folk 2 were written by Russell T Davies. Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street.