I think things have changed dramatically in a career capacity, but I think honestly we’ve had a bit of a major backslide socially in the last handful of years that’s required there to be more storytelling, louder storytelling, more unapologetic storytelling.Ĭomparing this June’s Pride Month to last year’s or many years past, are you happy with the growth of representation? Where do you still see room for improvement? What’s pigeonholing about that? is how I feel now, but it’s not necessarily the way I always felt. I kept getting people saying, “Are you sure you want to do another queer project? You don’t want to be pigeonholed as a queer director.” And I was like, Hmmmm, I am a queer director. There were so few out queer trans celebrities at the time when I started working. I think it’s changed a lot honestly in the last 10 years. How have you seen representation change since you started working in entertainment? For me, the British version is the one that kind of got into my veins a little bit. The one I would watch as a kid was the American version, but I watched the British version as a teenager. Which Queer As Folk, the British or the Showtime one? It was not something I was willing to risk at that time. And I was afraid of the consequences, that it would mean I would be unlovable. I was young, closeted, and I wasn’t ready to accept that I was queer back then.
Why did you need to watch it on mute? Could you not even risk having your parents hear? It can make a person in the hardest island like I was, in Newfoundland, feel a little less alone just to know that there are other people out there like them. There’s nothing more powerful than seeing yourself reflected in some way. There’s nothing more powerful, and I can say this from experience, from having watched the original Queer As Folk in my basement with the volume on mute.
The new take was a passion project for the 33-year-old because of what the original series meant to him, Dunn tells Rotten Tomatoes, as he shares his thoughts on LGBTQ+ representation on television today.įred Topel for Rotten Tomatoes: How important is representation in today’s political and social climate? Davies British drama that previously had been adapted into the long-running Showtime series. Stephen Dunn, writer and director the film Closet Monster and Little America episode “ The Son,” created Peacock’s 2022 adaptation of Queer As Folk, which is based on the Russell T. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Pride Month Showrunner Spotlight: In June, Rotten Tomatoes will feature LGBTQ+ series creators and writers sharing their perspectives on representation on television and streaming, who inspired them, how the environment has improved, and where there’s still more work to be done. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms.
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