![]() ![]() ![]() The Wilde Wit Award went to Saturday Night Live performer Bowen Yang. "I'm going to keep trying my best and instill hope." "There's a generation behind me that needs to know what transness looks like," Rodriquez said while accepting the Dorian Award. Mj Rodriguez, one of the series central characters, received the LGBTQIA Trailblazer Award "for creating art that inspires, truth and equity." In July, Rodriguez became the first trans actor nominated for an Emmy in the lead drama category. Some personal faves - Hacks, I May Destroy You and Pose- were among the winners at GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics' Dorian TV Awards. It will be groundbreaking to have a disabled and sexually active gay character in the ensemble cast. O'Connell will also be executive producing and writing for the series. Johnny Sibilly, Devin Way, Candace Grace and Fin Argus are also among the stellar and did we say gorgeous cast.Īlso in the cast is Ryan O'Connell, the star of Netflix's Special. Keitel is the first nonbinary actor to play a nonbinary series regular on primetime TV. The show's cast includes one of our faves, Jesse James Keitel, who has been heartbreakingly good as the trans feminine singer on ABC's Big Sky (new season starts Sept. But so much has changed in the last 20 years and how wonderful would it be if the next generation didn't have to watch Queer As Folk alone in their dank basements with the sound muted, but with their family and friends and the volume cranked all the way to the max." Moore is an award-winning trans writer whose credits include Dear White People and Love Life.ĭunn said, "When the show originally aired, the idea of unapologetic queer stories on TV was so provocative that I felt I could only watch Queer As Folk in secret. Jaclyn Moore is an executive producer and writer for the series. Dunn created, wrote and executive produced the series and will also direct the pilot episode. Openly gay Canadian director, screenwriter and producer Stephen Dunn is the show runner. We used to live in New Orleans and it is the perfect setting for tragedy and queerness, as Tennessee Williams made vividly clear. Davies, exploring a diverse group of friends in New Orleans whose lives are transformed in the aftermath of a tragedy." NBC describes Queer as Folk as "a vibrant re-imagining of the groundbreaking British series created by Russell T. Currently in pre-production with a chef's kiss perfect and pretty cast, the series will be aired on NBC Universal's streaming platform Peacock. The Handmaid's Tale is the first show produced by Hulu to win a major award as well as the first series on a streaming service to win an Emmy for Outstanding Series.ĭevin Way, Ryan O'Connell, Johnny Sibilly and Candace Grace are among the cast of the new 'Queer as Folk.'įor years we have wanted a reboot of the iconic, but Queer as Folk series and now it is happening. If you haven't seen this stellar series, season four of which just ended in June, now is a good time to watch, as new series will be airing in October. In a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world, the few remaining fertile women are forced into sexual servitude.Īrt imitating life imitating art. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate. The four seasons of the Emmy-winning and queer-infused The Handmaid's Tale are presented as dystopia, but we are living that reality now, right here, not in Gilead, the setting of the series. In The Handmaid's Tale, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) wonders who informed on her and her family: "It could have been a neighbor, watching our car pull out from the driveway in the morning, acting on a hunch, tipping them off for a gold star on someone's list." But there will be many people eager to inform on a queer person seeking an abortion for that $10,000 bounty. There is no exception for rape or incest in the Texas law. Yet corrective rape of lesbians, assaults on bisexual women and trans men are all lived realities in our anti-LGBTQ society. ![]() Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) asserted that the new Texas abortion law is like The Handmaid's Tale, and said, "When abortion is illegal, rich women still get abortions." ![]() Bounties placed on the heads of anyone who attempts to get an abortion after six weeks when almost no one knows they are pregnant. ![]()
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