After securing the blessing of Russell T Davies, the creator of the original drama series, Dunn moved the setting to New Orleans and assembled a cast of hot queers to bring the show to life. So when Peacock announced the remake of the seminal show Queer as Folk would be dropping j ust in time for Pride, expectations were mixed.īut for Stephen Dunn, the plan to reimagine QaF began years before the reboot craze-the Newfoundland-born director remembers falling in love with the 1999 original while watching it in his basement as a 10-year-old. Despite the relentless commercialization of queerness, LGBTQIA+ representation on screen has been remarkably narrow, overwhelmingly focused on the lives of affluent, white, cis, and able-bodied people.
In the era of the reboot, queer retellings (think The L Word: Generation Q ) often err on the side of serving watered-down, buzz word-heavy social justice.
