Russell T Davies reveals the powerful reason why HIV and AIDS wasn’t mentioned once in Queer as Folk
Queer As Folk was Britain's first gay TV drama. (Channel 4) Russell T Davies puts the AIDS crisis front and centre in his new drama, It’s A Sin, something he says he was unable to manage until now. The producer and screenwriter made his name in bombastic fashion with the seminal 1999 drama Queer as Folk. Across two series and 10 episodes, it focused on gay characters with fully fleshed-out lives – a first for television – and taught a generation of adolescent gay men the wonders of rimming. One...