How true to life is "Queer as folk"?

[Gods_Favorite]

I'm str8 but mildly bi curious and I watched a couple episodes of Queer as folk, and besides getting a little turned on by the sex scenes and such, I was wondering how true to life is this show? are the couples on that show living like actual gay couples in real life are? it may seem like a silly question but I'm just curious, appreicate any answers I can get.

 

[SweetCherry]

Admittedly, I've never seen the show and I've not lived with another woman other than a room mate who I wasn't sexually involved with or interested in. I would think tho, that living as a couple, ANY kind of couple would be pretty much the same, no matter the gender. Granted, all couples do things a little differently, but hell, couples are couples, aren't they? They eat meals, do choires, go out, fight, laugh, cry, pay bills, have sex...you get the picture. Is there any real difference between a gay couple and a hetero couple? Just my opinion, tho.

 

[glamorilla]

i'd say it's about as accurate as any portrayal of real life you see on television.

except for the club scenes which are definately watered down.

 

[Effigy]

Glams response is close enough

 

[deliciously_naughty]

I find QAF a little overdone. Not every gay man is a slut. And not everyone who goes to gay clubs does E.

Beyond that...not every lesbian is in a couple or that maternal.

 

[Cigan]

Ok I have to say that is QAF is is true to life, and if the club scenes are watered down then you have just given me even more motivation to stay the hell inside my sheltered little world. Ever since coming out I have yet to meet a gay man under the age of 35 who is interested in relationships. Am I the only boy who likes to take it up the ass, but wants it to be the same person giving it to me each time?

Excuse me I just had to rant for a bit. I live the English QAF, but I found the American one (especially the club scene) somewhat horrifying. Not in that they were overdone, or that I had any illusions that things like that didn't happen. It was the lack of any balancing sane down to earth traditional gay characters which bothered me.