Charlie Hunnam Russell T.Davies city Manchester county Alexander queer community Features STARS folk show Gay Gay Village Charlie Hunnam Russell T.Davies city Manchester county Alexander

Russell T Davies teases Queer As Folk follow-up as he is joined by Coronation Street star for 25th anniversary reunion

Reading now: 280
manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Twenty-five years ago, a little television show called Queer As Folk began airing on Channel 4. Centred around the lives of three gay men living in and around Canal Street, the programme helped spur a monumental impact on Manchester’s Gay Village that is still evident today.

To celebrate the anniversary, creator Russell T Davies reunited with those who played a part in the series as part of Manchester’s newest LGBTQ+ film and television festival SCENE.

The Q&A event, which was hosted by famed weatherman and presenter Owain Wyn Evans, took place at New Century Hall on Friday (August 16) and featured former cast members Denise Black, Carla Henry and Coronation Street actor Antony Cotton as they recalled moments from the show and looked to its place in queer history today. READ MORE: The best restaurants and bars where you can celebrate Manchester Pride 2024 Running for two series from 1999 to 2000, the show featured lead stars Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly and Charlie Hunnam and aimed to showcase what it meant to be a gay man living in Manchester at the time.

For many, it was the first time they saw themselves depicted as characters on screen and was filmed on location in the Gay Village, with Cruz 101 doubling up as fictional bar Babylon.

Read more on manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The website meaws.com is an aggregator of news from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the news if you find it unreliable.

Related News

17.09 / 03:11
Entertainment Pop UPS Тикеры bass Lance Bass on life if he had never come out & married his ex-girlfriend: “I would be so bored”
I think about where my life would have been, and especially being a closeted person in a state like Mississippi. Like, how long would it have taken me to realize who I was? Would I have been that type of person to just kind of try to ignore those feelings and actually marry that girlfriend of mine?I knew at that moment [going to Orlando to audition for ‘NSYNC for the first time], like, holy crap, I don’t think I’m going back to Mississippi.I don’t know how far I would have taken living in a place like [Mississippi], and not being a part of a business like entertainment, where it was so easy to be yourself and to be free.I think about that all the time, and I think entertainment saved me, like, saved my life.
DMCA