What can you tease our readers about “Queer as Folk”?
It is sexy, it’s thrilling, it’s empathetic, and like nothing you’ve ever seen on TV before.
I love it. That was such a good description. The series really captures more of a full queer experience than other programs do, including the good, the bad, everything in between. What can you speak to in terms of how the show brings that to life on the screen?
Well, there’s no one way to embody the entirety of the LGBTQIA+ experience. I think our show does a really masterful job of letting watchers know that there is much more to the queer community than… I think the word queer often gets reduced to cis gay men, and really, that acronym embodies so much more than that — people of different races, people of different abilities, people of different trans statuses. It’s really fun and it’s storytelling we haven’t necessarily seen before.
Absolutely. And it’s nice to see all that on the screen represented.
Yeah, it really is. I’m such a fan of the show. I’m so excited that I can say I’m part of it.
That enthusiasm shows on the screen too, which is amazing.
And I’m not alone. It’s always a room full of people who are so happy to be there.
How might you say that this “Queer as Folk” different from the [two] series that aired years ago?
Well, the previous iterations of the show paved the way for so much groundbreaking, iconic, television. It changed the landscape of queer storytelling. I don’t think this version of the show could exist without those previous versions. First of all, it’s in New Orleans, which is a really bright and vibrant city in the south, [and] that alone is a completely different take on “Queer as Folk.” It shows a richness in the diversity of the community that is really authentic. I can speak for myself, as a trans woman, my lived experience wasn’t really reflected in previous versions of the show.
But here we are, and now there’s some really beautiful storytelling that we got to tell this season.
