“He’s the daddy of the group,” says Johnny. There are also traces of Stuart in the swaggering Brodie, described by Devin as the “smartest, hottest, funniest, most humble… but with an ability to love”, while Vince’s soulful kindliness can be found in Brodie’s BAE Noah (he/him), played by Johnny Sibilly (he/him). Nods to the 90s abound in Queer as Folk 3.0. “Early on, he was pushing me to do really dramatic things.”Ī burning car. “This was the gift Russell gave me ,” explains Stephen. How do you respectfully reimagine a 1999 story for a 2022 audience while breaking new ground and not repeating past mistakes?ĭevin wears top, by Alicia & Olivia, jeans, by Levi's, bracelet, by Pawnshop London Ryan wears shit, vintage, trousers, by Helen Anthony, shoes, stylist's own, glasses, Ryan's own We sold it that year.” It’s a mountain few would have thought to scale, but a bigger challenge was on the horizon.
“I pitched him my take, with the humour and joy in the original, about a community that moves on after a tragedy,” explains Stephen.
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In 2015, after the success of his brilliantly named indie movie Closet Monster, Stephen travelled to Manchester’s Media City (via Canal Street, naturally) to personally ask It’s a Sin maestro Russell T Davies for the rights to Queer as Folk. “It was my sexual awakening my first exposure to queer culture,” says Stephen of the Queer as Folk UK DVDs he rented as a highschooler in Newfoundland, Canada, where he had “no semblance of queer community. “There might be a homage to that ,” teases showrunner/creator Stephen Dunn, rim-tastically, before sharing his memories of watching the original Queer as Folk. , 12-year-old me internalised this message that ‘It’s going to be hard to be gay and disabled.’ If I’d known at that age, I was going to be a co-executive producer and star in this, that would’ve meant the world.”įor all this broken ground, on-screen anilingus remains a rarity: look at the fuss over 2021’s “iconic ass-eating scene”, as Fin puts it, in The White Lotus, between Lukas Gage, a soon-to-be Queer as Folk guest star, and Looking’s Murray Bartlett.
Before adding that it was “ground-breaking a lifeline to the queer community. “Oh, honey… like every self-respecting closet homosexual, I devoured it,” he confesses. Ryan O’Connell (he/him), who plays Julian (he/him), a gay man with cerebral palsy (a condition Ryan was born with), feels similar about the Pittsburgh-based remake that ran from 2000-2005. They were five months old at the time!) History may be about to repeat itself: as per Charlie Hunnam’s impressionable schoolboy in 1999, and Randy Harrison’s angelic Justin in the American version in 2000, Mingus enjoys a sensuous serving of tuchis lingus in 2022.
“I’m ready to talk about ass-eating - bring it on!” laughs actor Fin Argus (they/them), who plays teenager Mingus (they/them/he/him), when Attitude asks if they’re aware of the hyperventilating cultural conversation around the original’s rimming scene. Where it does overlap with the past, however, is in its unapologetic depiction of queer sex. In the words of Kandy Muse, it feels… correct. We let people put BLM in their bios, and they don’t actually exert any allyship! We got to speak on this topic, and it got to be sexy, smart, fun and drive a point forward.”Ĭharli XCX and Troye Sivan might want to go back to '1999' - an era when a story about a trio of white, cis gay men was genuinely innovative, to be clear - but Queer As Folk circa 2022, evidently, does not. “It speaks so clearly to the tone we’re setting for heavy issues moving forward: so racially charged, right at the top, speaking not only to the hypersexualisation of Black people by white people, but performative allyship. “It’s one of my favourite scenes,” laughs actor Devin Way, who plays Brodie. Johnny wears knitwear, leather trousers, tank top, and rings, all by Dsquared2Īnd with that, this writer picked his jaw up off the floor, Karen from Mean Girls-style. CG wears two-piece, by Equipment, waistcoat, by Dsquared2, boots, stylist’s own, jewellery, by Pyrrha, necklaces, CG’s own. Jesse wears dress, by Dion Lee at END., shoes, by Christian Louboutin, rings, Jesse’s own. Finn wears top, by Enza Costa, necklace, stylist’s own, earrings, by Pawnshop London. Ryan wears shirt, vintage, glasses, Ryan’s own. Devin wears top, by Alice & Olivia, trousers, by Levi’s Made and Crafted, shoes, Devin’s own, bracelet, by Pawnshop London. The cast of Queer as Folk for the Attitude July/August issue.