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haveyouseenthisseries-poll · 1 month

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#tv shows #tv series #polls #queer as folk uk #aidan gillen #craig kelly #charlie hunnam #1990s series #british series #have you seen this series poll

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baelishwife · 7 days

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“An oral history of Queer as Folk, the groundbreaking gay series that changed British TV for good.”

By Jack King, 17 April 2024.

New article from the British GQ, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Queer as Folk. Aidan and the rest of the cast, as well as creator Russell T Davies, discuss making the show, and its legacy.

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Some highlights from Aidan:

On being cast as Stuart: “I’d been working as an actor probably for about twelve years... I started trying to do it for a living straight out of school.

I did the play Mojo at the Royal Court… [later] I did the film of Mojo, and I played a different role in the film than in the play. I think Charles McDougall, who directed Queer as Folk, and Nicola Shindler had gone to a screening of Mojo. There’s a scene where I was walking down the street with a shirt open, in Soho in 1958, which sold them the idea… I [also] think Christopher Eccleston put me in the director’s mind for Queer as Folk.”

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On playing a gay character as a straight man: “There’s a lot of assumption that someone is heterosexual, or that they’re not, you know what I mean. But it certainly wasn’t an issue for me. I don’t think sexual preference defines a person to me. I’m not afraid of it, or people, or what they’re into; I’m not afraid of anything, really. I grew up in the theatre. I was going to youth theatre when I was 13. I knew many gay men and women. This was part of my everyday working life.”

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On working with Charlie Hunnam, who played Nathan: “I thought it was incredibly brave to take that on. I wasn’t really sure what his background was, or what kind of family he came from, or what kind of flack he might get. But to do what he did… Well, I don’t know, is there any difference from doing it when you’re 28? I suppose [there] is, in that you have a little bit more experience, and you know who you are.”

“[Charlie] was learning on the job. But I’d never be going out of my way to try and mentor somebody, you know, or tell them how to do things, or not.”

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On the rimming scene in the first episode: “I mean, it was just a scene, you know. [Laughs.] We were careful about it. Nowadays they’d have intimacy coordinators, and all this kind of stuff… The important thing is to make a plan, to talk it through with everyone, to make sure what everyone’s comfortable with.”

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On controversially depicting a relationship between a 15-year-old boy and a 29-year-old man: “I don’t remember much about the [reaction to it] at all. It wasn’t even something that I thought about too much. If it was now, they would have a fucking conniption — it wouldn’t even get made. I remember some people going on about it, but not too much. It was more just general outrage.”

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On how Queer as Folk helped his career: “I've had a good, fulfilling, artistically satisfying career, and all the rest of it. But it's built on [Queer as Folk], I think.”

#aidan gillen #stuart alan jones #craig kelly #vince tyler #charlie hunnam #nathan maloney #queer as folk #queer as folk uk #QAF #QAF UK #russell t davies #gay #LGBT #GQ magazine #interview

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axvoter · 1 year

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Blatantly Partisan Party Review II (NSW 2023): Group B (Craig Kelly / United Australia Party)

Prior reviews (many as the Palmer United Party): federal 2013, VIC 2014, federal 2016, VIC 2018 (one Palmer United independent), federal 2019, federal 2022, VIC 2022

What I said before: “If you want unhinged covid conspiracies, cooker grudges, untrammelled resentment, economic incoherence, and environmental ruin, then this is the party for you. If you want something even within shouting distance of sense, look elsewhere.” (VIC 2022 review)

What I think this year: Nothing has changed in the past four months.

For some reason, Craig Kelly’s personal website still describes him as the federal member for the Division of Hughes. He was turfed out almost a year ago. This ex-Liberal MP is now national director of the United Australia Party, which is too shambolically disorganised to obtain state registration in NSW, and Kelly is one of the leading agitators of the evidence-free lunatics who think covid, and everything else, is a conspiracy against them personally. They suppose themselves to be the main characters of the universe without realising that the universe really would rather they shut the fuck up and stop ranting at poor unfortunate relatives at family get-togethers.

I want to take this opportunity to clarify something with regards to this year’s upper house ballot. There are 21 groups contesting: 13 parties and a remarkable 8 groups of independents. All the more remarkable is that six of those eight—yes, three quarters of them—did not nominate enough individual candidates, fifteen, to receive a square above the line. As Ben Raue has highlighted, this is very unusual: at the previous five elections under the current system combined, only three groups have not qualified for a square above the line!

The first of these six groups (in ballot order) to fall short of the candidate threshold and not receive a square above the line is Craig Kelly’s UAP-aligned group in Column B. Now, Kelly is an idiot, but he’s also an experienced politician. He of all people should know that any group without a square above the line has no chance of winning a seat and is wasting its time and money. But, look, if he wants to waste time and money, who am I to stop him?

Recommendation: Give Group B (Craig Kelly / United Australia Party) a weak or no preference.

Website: https://www.unitedaustraliaparty.org.au/

#auspol #NSWvotes #NSWvotes2023 #NSW election #NSW #Election 2023 #Craig Kelly #United Australia Party #UAP #United Australia #Clive Palmer #conspiracy theorists #flogs #grouped independents #weak or no preference

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movie--posters · 2 years

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#tv show #movies and tv #qeer as folk uk #queer as folk #craig kelly #charlie hunnam #aidan gillen #poster #tv posters

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watermonkeystuff · 2 years

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Geez, I wonder why people are sick and tired of United Australia Party.

Geez, it’s totally just their obviously empty promises.

Geez, it’s totally just the party to appealing to the worst of society including anti-vaxxers and neo-nazis.

Geez, it’s totally just because normal people don’t want anything to do with United Australia Party.

#United Australia Party #Clive Palmer #Craig Kelly #auspol

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minbow3 · 6 months

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Craig Kelly

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literarysiren · 1 year

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Girls Just Wanna Have Blood is one of the most diy indie horror films I've ever seen, and while it wasn't fully for me, it was clearly fun to make and if two exorcism in-film sex tapes and a vampire with a Batman-style backstory sounds like your kind of thing then I'm happy to introduce you.

#horror #horror films #film review #movie review #vampires #queer horror #diy horror #Anthony Catanese #Amanda Renee #Destyne Marshai #Craig Kelly #Girls Just Wanna Have Blood #wild eye releasing

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sapphicspaceart · 3 months

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the twelve catalysts

#endless summer #playchoices #jake mckenzie #sean gayle #diego soto #quinn kelly #estela montoya #aleister rourke #raj bhandarkar #craig hsiao #grace hall #michelle nguyen #zahra namazi #thats so many tags....#always wanted to draw them in a more semirealistic style #raj was the most fun to do hes so lovely

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grymorfinon · 1 year

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Knives Out 3 should just be the cast of The Last Jedi but all with different accents than their normal ones and all playing wealthy douchebags. Except for Kelly Marie Tran who plays the protagonist character.

#glass onion #knives out #rian johnson #star wars #the last jedi #adam driver #daisy ridley #kelly marie tran #daniel craig #john boyega #oscar isaac #benoit blanc

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cinematicmasterpiece · 11 months

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are you there god? it’s me, margaret. (2023)

#are you there god? it's me margaret #film #movie #cinema #art #edit #screencaps #photography #cinematography #2020s #female director #directed by women #kelly fremon craig #rachel mcadams #abby ryder fortson #amari alexis price #elle graham

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in-love-with-movies · 20 days

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The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

#The Edge of Seventeen #filmedit #Hailee Steinfeld #Haley Lu Richardson #Kelly Fremon Craig #my gifs #movie gifs

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axvoter · 2 years

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Blatantly Partisan Party Review XXX (federal 2022): United Australia Party

Running where: All states and territories for the Senate (in the NT below the line only), and many divisions in the House of Representatives

Prior reviews (mostly as the Palmer United Party): federal 2013, VIC 2014, federal 2016, VIC 2018 (Bobby Singh, Palmer United independent), federal 2019

What I said before: “Palmer and Friends live in an alternate reality.”

What I think this year: If Palmer and Friends lived in an alternate reality in 2019, hoo boy they’ve transcended to an even more demented sphere this year. Clive’s busy asserting—utterly falsely—that his party is the continuation of the United Australia Party of 1931–45. He’s also so historically illiterate that he has claimed Billy Hughes as a UAP prime minister (Hughes was a UAP member but it was not one of the three parties he represented as PM). But the misrepresentations of history are mainly an annoyance to political historians like me. The substance of the party’s demands are where we should be looking, because it’s dangerous, goofy stuff.

Clive Palmer has now combined his angry self-interested mining populist energies with the climate-denialist, anti-vax, covid-conspiracist cult ravings of horse-paste enthusiast Craig Kelly, who is now the party leader. Kelly is currently the Member for Hughes, where he was re-elected for the Liberal Party in 2019 because Scott Morrison intervened to ensure Kelly was not challenged for preselection. Onya Scott, look at where that got us, you flog.

Google the UAP and you get both an ad for the party website with the slogan “take our country back”, then another hit for the same website but with the slogan “freedom forever”. On the website itself—once your eyes adjust after being blinded with so much bright yellow you think you accidentally loaded JB Hi-Fi’s website—the slogan is “save Australia”. This party is now a grievance machine of very angry cranks who think something has been stolen from them; it’s rooted in the conspiracy theorist thought patterns that convince people who are generally pretty comfortable that they are in fact the great victims of the world. It’s where you want to be main character of history and the smartest person in the room spotting unseen connections.

UAP’s policies are pure undistilled racist populism. They demand unworkable low-interest home loan laws, improper superannuation fund restrictions (no international investment, which is an important part of a diversified portfolio), even more unworkable and dangerous foreign policies shot through with xenophobia (particularly Sinophobia), and mineral policies that basically just serve to enlarge Clive’s bank balance.

As for the event of the moment, the pandemic, UAP’s attitude is simply this: do nothing. No restrictions, ever, no matter how medically necessary. Oh and they are very keen for you to be able to have ready access to “alternative” treatments that at best do fuck-all and at worst are much more likely to kill you than covid is. If you’ve seen the party’s posters around, or the signage used by the many covid cookers who’ve leapt aboard Palmer’s wagon, you know that they want FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM. You can read this as FREEDOM (to get covid) FREEDOM (to die from not being vaccinated) FREEDOM (to burn the planet). Just a bunch of incredible plonkers.

My recommendation: Give the United Australia Party a weak or no preference.

Website: https://www.unitedaustraliaparty.org.au/

#auspol #ausvotes #ausvotes22 #ausvotes2022 #Australian election #Australia #Election 2022 #United Australia Party #Clive Palmer #Palmer United Party #Craig Kelly #covid #antivaxxers #conspiracy theorists #FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM #flogs #weak or no preference

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fulfillingbineeds · 8 months

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Misfits text posts Pt. 3

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asoftepiloguemylove · 9 months

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Ruta Sepetys "Emilia;" Salt to the Sea // Cynthia Cruz "The Glimmering Room;" Diagnosis // @herchainsaregone // Jamie Varon Does The Universe Fight For Souls To Be Together? // The Edge of Seventeen (2016) dir. Kelly Fremon Craig // Marya Hornbacher Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia // Sue Zhao // Clementine von Radics // pinterest // Billie Eilish What Was I Made For?