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What it was forced to be under the circumstances, however, is something that not even a much better program could realistically have been as the one fully-publicized, widely-viewed TV show that finally placed gays at the center of their very own lives rather than reducing us to figures of fun or disgust (or both) on the shady, exotic periphery of "normal" life, Queer as Folk, despite its unabashed aesthetic commitment to equal-opportunity trashiness, was bound to be saddled with the unasked-for obligation of presenting some important truths about the unexamined lives of a long-oppressed and still poorly understood Other.
(It is the latter in this case, of course.) What Queer as Folk should have been, were the world a bit more just and civilized and a bit less uptight and confused, was just another silly, suggestive, sometimes downright risqué nighttime soap opera whose characters happened to be leading frivolous, impossibly overdramatic and glamorized gay lives instead of the equally overheated, promiscuous, vacuous existences to be witnessed on straight-centered equivalents like Dynasty or Melrose Place. version of Queer as Folk (which ran from 1999-2000 and caused a mini-sensation when it reached these shores a decade ago, inspiring Showtime to produce their flashier, much longer-running American remake) is a reminder of how unfairly loaded is the idea of "representation" in fictional works, most especially when it comes to representing minorities, whether racial, religious, or sexual. If nothing else, revisiting the original U.K.
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