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The gayest story ever told |
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Showtime's hot new soap "Queer as Folk" has wit, wisdom and heartache to spare. And sex. Lots and lots of sex. |
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|align="center"|This user is a member of ], a WikiProject which aims to expand a smooth, buttery spread over Misplaced Pages. Please feel free to ]. |
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Nov. 29, 2000 | Showtime's "Queer as Folk," the Americanized version of a show that set the U.K. atwitter when it premiered on Britain's Channel 4 last year, is the most explicitly homocentric drama series ever seen on these shores. Anticipated as a sort of great gay hope for American television, "Queer as Folk" has an awful lot to live up to. And it does. Proud and loud, the show is payback for every gay character on a prime-time drama who never got any good story lines, for Will and Jack not being allowed to kiss any men except each other, for Ellen DeGeneres being mummified as TV's Lesbian Saint and for the networks asking us to believe that John Goodman is gay but Frasier Crane isn't. |
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Unlike much of gay-themed American TV, "Queer as Folk" (the title is British slang meaning, roughly, "there's nothing as strange as ordinary people") is neither campfest nor cautionary tale. The most fascinating character on the series is a gorgeous, self-absorbed sexual conquistador who always gets what he wants, never says he's sorry and doesn't appear to be in imminent danger of becoming a made-for-TV AIDS martyr or gay-bashing victim. All of which makes "Queer as Folk" the first American series (sorry, "Ellen") to capture gay life in all its glorious complexity, without preachiness, polemics or self-censorship. |
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I am '''Philip L. Welch''', senior at ] double-majoring in ] and ] and planning to graduate in December of 2006. My was on ], ]. |
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:Q: What happened when sea pirates started editing Misplaced Pages? |
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:A: We sent them to ]rrrrrrr. |
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==Philwelch's Observation== |
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All other factors held equal, the greater the notability and encyclopedic merit of a given subject on Misplaced Pages, the higher quality the related article. |
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(10 p.m. Sundays, Showtime, beginning Dec. 3) |
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== Constructive edit warring == |
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As opposed to simply reverting back and forth, I like to review any two edits and devise a third, better edit that uses the best aspects of both while improving. This is better than simple reversion, and I, for one, would like to see any "edit war" using these techniques escalate beyond control. Here's a prototypical example. shows a distinctly poor edit that made the article less readable. was a selective improvement on both versions. Occasionally, an edit will be made that's all bad. In those cases, yeah, I'll revert, or just leave it for awhile until I can do a copyedit on the whole article (as to not single out certain edits and thus certain editors). |
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"I was recently in Brazil. I was recently in India. There are people there without electricity, without computers, without internet, without healthcare. Those people could give a shit about whether we have a link on a toolspage to a tool that might bring in some revenue, and whether some people consider this an affront to their aesthetics. But they need books. They need educational materials. They need freely licensed work they can modify, adapt, redistribute, copy freely, so they can learn what they need to know to have power in their own lives. Misplaced Pages is for them. Not for us. So, we need to be very very very careful about commercialism, and we need to be very very thoughtful about how we can use money to change the world, and that's why I do everything that I do. I hope that explanation is helpful." --Jimbo Wales in #wikipedia, October 23, 2005. |
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*I am the coiner of ], a term referring to a practice in which a page is blanked or deleted to remove unsalvagably atrocious text and rewritten because the subject is still a good candidate for an article. I hope it catches on. |
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*Began ], a proposed project to merge otherwise redundant information. |
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**As a test case, merged list from article ] into the Gay Icons category--a project that required over 500 edits. Reactions to the test case will hopefully determine if the project moves forward, and if so, what we will do the same and what we will do differently. If you have an opinion, please post it at ] |
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**I removed a lot of original research from the article, which led to the following honor (in the form of a non-sequitur added to the article itself): "The Great Independent Research Purge of ] eliminated most of these inconsistencies by shooting them in the back (See: ])." |
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Adapted for American TV by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman (who wrote the first AIDS TV movie, "An Early Frost," as well as the series "Sisters") with the show's British creator, Russell Davies, acting as a consultant, "Queer as Folk" has everything you'd want in a well-oiled -- in every sense of the word -- serial. The show's tangled plotlines about a group of gay friends (and one lesbian couple) in Pittsburgh are instantly addictive, the cast of mostly unknowns is pretty damn fabulous and the show has wit, wisdom and heartache to spare. And sex. Lots and lots of sex. |
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In fact, "Queer as Folk" is all about the sex. There's so much of it (in bedrooms, bathrooms and back rooms), and so much talk about it, that it's tempting to call "Queer as Folk" the gay "Sex and the City." After all, "Queer" narrator Michael Novotny (played by former "Talk Soup" host Hal Sparks) is as adorably self-analytical as Sarah Jessica Parker's Carrie Bradshaw, and the comical parade of Mr. Wrongs encountered by Michael and his friends rivals anything Carrie and Co. have encountered. |
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Although there are no full-frontal shots (well, except for the dildos, and the nude sketches and photographs that decorate characters' apartments), there are plenty of naked bodies and erotic encounters -- "Queer as Folk" makes Showtime's softcore anthology series "Red Shoe Diaries" look like "Little House on the Prairie." However, one concession to American mores has been made in adapting "Queer as Folk": A teenager who hooks up with a 29-year-old man was 15 years old in the British version, but in the American series, he's 17. (Hey, isn't that the age of consent on the WB?) |
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The randy, random couplings of "Queer as Folk" might unsettle some people who lived through the AIDS-clouded '80s and early '90s. And the specter of AIDS is present: One of the characters has a middle-aged uncle who is living with the disease. But this is mainly a joyful series about gay men 30 and under -- a resurgent generation, removed from the epidemic, tasting (and testing) freedom. Writers Cowen and Lipman, with co-producer/writer Jonathan Tolins (the play "Twilight of the Golds"), are under no broadcast network edict to impose heterosexual values and romantic ideals on gay characters. So "Queer as Folk" dives giddily and explicitly into something a show like "Will & Grace" is only able to talk about -- the idea that, for a gay man, love and sex, commitment and pleasure, aren't necessarily a package deal. |
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BabaJobu: Vague, the only respectable way for a girl to rebel is to have lots of sex with lots of different people. |
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Philwelch: BabaJobu: And only if those people include myself. |
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Vague_Pant: Concur with Baba and Phil. |
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BabaJobu: Phil, actually the rule refers to me, not you. |
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Philwelch: BabaJobu: If she's fucking lots of different people she'll get to both of us eventually. |
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Vague_Pant: So will venereal disease. |
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All other factors held equal, the greater the notability and encyclopedic merit of a given subject on Misplaced Pages, the higher quality the related article.
As opposed to simply reverting back and forth, I like to review any two edits and devise a third, better edit that uses the best aspects of both while improving. This is better than simple reversion, and I, for one, would like to see any "edit war" using these techniques escalate beyond control. Here's a prototypical example. This diff shows a distinctly poor edit that made the article less readable. My successive edit was a selective improvement on both versions. Occasionally, an edit will be made that's all bad. In those cases, yeah, I'll revert, or just leave it for awhile until I can do a copyedit on the whole article (as to not single out certain edits and thus certain editors).
"I was recently in Brazil. I was recently in India. There are people there without electricity, without computers, without internet, without healthcare. Those people could give a shit about whether we have a link on a toolspage to a tool that might bring in some revenue, and whether some people consider this an affront to their aesthetics. But they need books. They need educational materials. They need freely licensed work they can modify, adapt, redistribute, copy freely, so they can learn what they need to know to have power in their own lives. Misplaced Pages is for them. Not for us. So, we need to be very very very careful about commercialism, and we need to be very very thoughtful about how we can use money to change the world, and that's why I do everything that I do. I hope that explanation is helpful." --Jimbo Wales in #wikipedia, October 23, 2005.
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