Watch the Official Trailer for Queer As Folk Here
Queer as Folk trailer is here, queer, powerful, and, of course, very steamy — we’re already obsessed.This marks the second time the British series has been reimagined for American audiences.
This time, the action movies from Pittsburgh to New Orleans to follow a new group of friends navigating the joys and struggles of living their best, most unapologetically queer lives.The new location was important to creator Stephen Dunn, who wants the series to reflect queer culture in a new, authentically modern way.“I wanted to create a new groundbreaking version of this show for this moment,” he said in a statement shared by streaming service Peacock, which will air the series. “Our new Queer as Folk is set in New Orleans — one of the most unique queer communities in North America — and I am immensely proud that the new series is comprised of an electric ensemble of fresh characters that mirror the modern global audience.”This means a cast of characters and actors comprising a spectrum of gender identities, sexualities, and abilities.
For Dunn, it’s important to touch people’s lives the way he was when he saw the original series, an experience he says was the first time he ever felt really seen.“If there’s one person who is able to see Queer as Folk and feel less alone, or who now feels more supported and seen, our job is done,” he said.It’s a mission executive producer Jaclyn Moore shares. “I believe deeply in the power of storytelling to make people feel seen, but all too often I feel as though queer and trans representation in art is limited to extremes.
We are either shown as saintly heroes bravely surviving a bigoted society or two-dimensional queer-coded villains that feel airdropped in from some previous era.
