pen_grunt | Queer as Folk

I've been streaming old episodes of Queer as Folk (US version) while scanning family photos in the massive Family Scanning Photo Martyrdom Project (I kid...but fuck does it eat up a lot of time...and I can't really do anything else while scanning).

This fulfills two photo-scanning-TV requirements. 1. It's not something D is interested in watching with me and 2. It doesn't require my full attention.

Plus, watching hot guys dancing shirtless and having sex (well, TV-sex) with each other is a nice bonus.

Some observations:
1. Maaaan. Overall the show is pretty lame/cheesy in a way I didn't realize watching it the first way around. I find myself thinking, multiple times, "Dude, a real person would never act that way ever..." Of course, it's meant to be over-the-top, potato-chip TV, so... I take it for what it's worth. Dramaaaaa!

2. I'm pretty impatient w/r/t gay rights. Older friends constantly remind me how quickly the gay rights movement is progressing and tease me for being so impatient (fuck progress and small victories, it should be better NOW because how can people even feel any other way?!?). However, seeing the restrictions and "issues" brought up by QaF highlights how far we've come and how quickly it's happened. In, what, 2000? 2001? the prevailing opinion on the show was that gay people would never, ever, ever be able to get "real"-married. It was mentioned as a total pipe-dream. There was no reality in the whole world where that would happen. And now look at us. It's not perfect and it's not universal, but gay people can get married in MN.

Progress! Small victories!