What the ‘Queer as Folk’ Reboot Gets So Egregiously Wrong

NOT THIS

I needed a modern realization of the TV series that was so formative to me as a young gay man. But the one that materialized failed me in so many ways.

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Once the home of RuPaul’s Drag Race long before cishet approval coaxed a mainstream debut on VH1, Logo was the only channel that many gays could rely on for sanctuary from the perpetual onslaught of heterosexual pop culture.

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