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How about getting off Gale Harold’s back? No, Harold is not “universally loved” among the cast.
“But it didn’t,” he says, “and now it looks like it is actually going to happen, and we are all so thrilled.” He and fellow castmates calculated what it would take to actually get them all to Cologne and presented the figure to Kriebel, assuming it would scare her away. “I thought she was maybe just an overexcited fan with a funny dream,” Lowell said in an interview last year of Kriebel.
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The full program includes Q&A’s, a sightseeing tour, and photo/autograph sessions with members of the QAF cast, plus a charity auction of show memorabilia and numerous parties around the city. Queer as Folk, which ran from 2000 to 2005 on Showtime and spawned numerous fan clubs. Running June 8 to 10, Rise’n Shine (the name a nod to a common Brian quote from the show) is the brainchild of Elke Kriebel, a Cologne travel agent and diehard aficionada of the U.S. The event will go on anyway-”This is still is a QAF convention, and not a Gale Harold convention,” said one insider-and perhaps it’s better off without him: One QAF actor indicated Harold was not universally loved among the cast and predicted “a different actor” might play Brian in any reunion show.įilling in for Harold will be Harris Allan, who played Michael and Ben’s adopted HIV+ son, Hunter.
The only no-show? Gale Harold, who, in a very Brian Kinney-esque move, cancelled his appearance at the last minute due to “a wonderful work opportunity has only recently come my way.” Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think some of those came directly from this show’s existence.In what promoters are hailing as “The greatest reunification in Germany,” the cast of Queer As Folk is coming together in Cologne this weekend for Rise’n Shine 2012, a dream-come-true convention for the show’s legion of international fans.Īlmost the entire cast will be there-Hal Sparks (Michael), Randy Harrison (Justin), Sharon Gless (Deborah), Peter Paige (Emmett), Scott Lowell (Ted), Robert Gant (Ben), Michelle Clunie (Melanie) and Thea Gill (Lindsay)-marking the first time since QAF‘s original run that the gang has been brought together. “You can see a lot of seeds, I think, in a lot of the movements in society going forward. They were just very teary, and I feel that there are so many aspects that have stayed current.” “Two of the survivors of the Pulse attack came up to me and said, ‘We just wanna thank you all for having done that story line about Babylon. "I remember Thea and I got together the night before our first sex scene and we actually practiced kissing because we felt it was very important that it was a real, intimate connection between these two women who had been together for so long" "I think we were the first television show to use c-k socks" “I can tell you what everyone here’s genitals look like. Source: Entertainment Weekly Once cast, the actors got to know each other very well "My agent and manager at the time presented this script to me like they were wearing hazmat suits" "Some actors would come in and the first thing they'd say is 'Oh, my wife dropped me off downstairs.' They were so nervous" “We had meetings where they told us we were going to receive hate mail and threats and we had to be prepared” - Michelle Clunie, 'Melanie Marcus'
In 14 states, there were still sodomy laws on the books. There was Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in the Army.
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"We, gay people, didn’t really see a true reflection of ourselves on TV very often. Now, 18 years later, Entertainment Weekly brought the cast and producers back together to look back on the show with an oral history that offered a reminder of just how different and politically charged the show was for US television at the turn of the millennium. Queer As Folk was a key cultural stepping stone in bringing gay representation to the mainstream. Now everybody has a voice, but in 2000 the most visible people were straight, white, and on TV. Television was still the dominant way that we saw culture in the media.
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Internet culture was still nascent in 2000 when the US Queer As Folk series launched.