Random Thoughts on QAF

I have never been a fan of Queer as Folk.  I have actively been against it for the longest time.
The longest time going way back to the time I watched the first episode with Tom when it was being premiered.  Hanging at his house every night instead of my dorm room even though my mother would have been horrified for many reasons, one being the house in Roxbury, one being that I was dating and sleeping with a guy.  Ahh, the good ole days. 
Anyway, back to QAF and why I am writing this.  So, the other night my friend Matt comes over to chill with some beers, some Mexican food, and well, some Xbox.  Once again, the good ole days.  We then decide to watch Queer as Folk (starting with season 3, since he has seen some but not a lot nor remembers it).  So, we watch the first two episodes of season 3.  To say the least, I am now on the 8th episode awaiting, impatiently I might add, the next disc (thank god for netflix.com).  I desperately want to know if Brian and Justin now stay together after their being reunitement, or what happens with the facist Mayor, or the tricks on the street, or honestly to hear what gay club song they are playing.  I realize that this show is totally fiction, especially given since it is supposed to be in Pittsburgh.  (Come on people, Pittsburgh, have you been there?).  Rhode Island has more gay clubs, lol.  But, I do wonder why I am making so many comparisons to it, and to my life.  It seems like everyone has an Emmett, or a Brian (or a Big for that matter since its like Sex and the City all over again just a little more fitting.  Granted I rarely go out anymore and rarely feel the need for meaningless sex but a lot of the show really holds true in gay culture.  The idea that romance is such a far fetched idea that every single one of us makes fun of it, hiding our own insecurities or inner desires.  Or the idea that going out, doing drugs, eating with the same old people, living in the same old gay ghetto is how we should live our lives.  I get that its more comfortable and that I really shouldn't be talking since I live in the gay ghetto of Boston but I want to understand why others feel like they have to live by what seems to be this "code of homo's."  I learned this week that I need to engage more but when I watch this show, (other than Brian), do I really?  Should I?  What for if the idea is that we shouldn't expand our horizons or stimulate ourselves with something else.  Or not what if but why is this the common idea amongst people.  Or maybe it is just me.  I clearly need more stimulation (thankfully my weekend is planned) and I clearly need more engagement in certain random things. 

In other news, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) from Sex and the City has now decided that she is a lesbian.  And has been in a relatonship with a woman for awhile.  I'm not obsessed enough to remember certain time periods, like some, sorry.  But, surprising yet hysterical. 

Comments

[Frank]

Thanks! Yours is hysterical too. Check it out people, especially for the hysterical baby touching himself picture.

[ABoy&HisToy aka Jason]

I use to be obsessed with watching QAF, hell I even have the first and second season on DVD but I so fell out of the gay loop that I have no idea whats going on. As for SATC now thats my show I have all the seasons on DVD! You rock for mentioning SATC! Really enjoy your blog btw...