There’s also Michael’s uncle, who’s in his late 40s and has AIDS and because of the cocktails and has to deal with his life and, of course, Justin, a 17-year-old gay young man who is not in conflict about his sexuality. There’s Michael’s mother, Debbie, played by Sharon Gless, who is so overly supportive you want to strangle her.
Dave, who is in his late 30s and very relationship-oriented. There’s Ted, who is 33 and running after young guys who are inappropriate for him Dr. “There’s a domesticated lesbian couple with a child Brian and Michael, who are about to turn 30, which is a certain kind of death in this world.
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“We have a whole tapestry of different kinds of gay characters,” boasts the producer, who along with his work and life partner, Ron Cowen, created the series Sisters and the AIDS-themed TV movie An Early Frost, both of which won Emmys. Dave in Michael’s childhood bedroom.) “We all have friends that we’re not too wild about, but why do we like them? Well, because we understand.” Still, Lipman is quick to point out that Queer as Folk has more to offer than men behaving badly. (The set is now off-limits while Sparks and Potter shoot a love scene between Michael and Dr. “That’s Brian, the bad boy who never grows up,” laughs Dan Lipman, one of the show’s executive producers, a bit later in the show’s production office. Asked how many different sex-scene partners he’s had so far, Harold laughs and says, “That’s a hard question.” He counts on his fingers for at least a half a minute, then gives up. Queer as Folk, on which the Showtime project is based, Brian is an Olympic-level bed hopper and completely unapologetic about it. Like in the scene today, I was only there to cause problems.” Like Stuart from the original U.K. “I get to be the ultimate antihero every day. “This is such a blast,” Harold chuckles after the scene is wrapped. “Make it a performance.” Harold takes the note gamely and in subsequent takes looks longingly at the éclairs before swallowing them whole. “Insert it into your mouth in a phallic way, Gale,” coaches the episode’s director, Canadian film vet David Wellington, between takes. Brian’s no sooner plopped himself down on the sofa and doffed his designer sunglasses than he starts making trouble by helping himself to the chocolate éclairs that Michael bought especially for his outing with Dr. Michael has long carried a torch for Brian, and Brian uses that to keep Michael where he wants him: beholden yet unfulfilled. Michael’s over-the-top roommate, Emmett (Peter Paige), skitters off to answer it, and in struts the wrong guy-Brian, Michael’s best friend and the show’s resident shit-stirrer (played by sexy newcomer Gale Harold). “Action” is called there’s a knock at the door. “I’m putting a little rouge on my penis to make it look longer,” quips Sparks, the show’s unofficial morale-booster, just before the cameras roll. Dave (Chris Potter of Silk Stalkings), a humpy chiropractor Michael fell for while lying facedown on his examining table. As the scene opens, Michael (played by former Talk Soup wiseacre Hal Sparks) is facing his bathroom mirror, nervously preparing for a date with Dr. The scene now being filmed on the Toronto location of Showtime’s Queer as Folk series is set in the modest, comic book–strewn Pittsburgh apartment of Michael, a sweet-natured but put-upon assistant department store manager.