15-year-old Nathan Maloney (Charlie Hunnam) is new to the gay scene but is not lacking in self-confidence. His long-time friend Vince Tyler (Craig Kelly), who has a crush on Stuart, has less luck regarding men.

The main characters are Stuart Alan Jones (Aidan Gillen), who is highly sexually active, and successfully so. Davies had originally titled the series this, although at the suggestion of Channel 4 executives for a period during its development and pre-production it was known as Queer as Fuck, before it reverted to the former name.

The title of the programme comes from a Yorkshire dialect expression from some parts of Northern England, 'there's nowt so queer as folk', meaning 'there's nothing as strange as people' which is a word play on the modern-day English synonym of ' queer', meaning homosexual. Queer as Folk was produced by the Red Production Company for Channel 4. Both Queer as Folk and Queer as Folk 2 were written by Russell T Davies.

Initially running for eight episodes, a two-part follow up called Queer As Folk 2 was shown in 2000. Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street.

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