Out of the Closet, Into the Fire
- Episode aired Feb 15, 2000
- TV-MA
- 46m
Everyone attends a family wedding in which Vince and Stuart are thought to be boyfriends. Stuart is blackmailed by his nephew. Vince is going for a promotion at work.Everyone attends a family wedding in which Vince and Stuart are thought to be boyfriends. Stuart is blackmailed by his nephew. Vince is going for a promotion at work.Everyone attends a family wedding in which Vince and Stuart are thought to be boyfriends. Stuart is blackmailed by his nephew. Vince is going for a promotion at work.
- 3rd Man in Sauna
- (as Calum Arnott)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAlternately titled "Same Men, New Tricks".
- Quotes
Stuart Allen Jones: We don't do hammers, or nails, or saws. We do joints and screws, but that's different.
Marie Jones: Who does?
Stuart Allen Jones: Queers. Because I'm queer. I'm gay. I'm homosexual. I'm a poof, I'm a poofter, I'm a ponce. I'm a bumboy, baddieboy, backside artist, bugger. I'm bent. I am that arsebandit. I lift those shirts. I'm a faggot-ass, fudge-packing, shit-stabbing uphill gardener. I dine at the downstairs restaurant, I dance at the other end of the ballroom. I'm Moses and the parting of the red cheeks. I fuck and I am fucked. I suck and I am sucked. I rim them and wank them, and every single man's had the fucking time of his life. And I am not a pervert. If there's one twisted bastard in this family, it's this little blackmailer here. So congratulations, Thomas. I've just officially outed you.
- ConnectionsFollows Queer as Folk (1999)
The show realistically portrays a hedonistic lifestyle in the gay Manchester scene of Canal Street (of which the C has since been removed from the road, or so I have been told by a Mancunian friend of mine). Yes, it could be seen to give off negative connotations, if one was to watch half an episode, after suffering a major frontal lobotomy - but for those of us who have watched both series with all our faculties it is plain to see that the writer, Russell T Davies, was only too aware that what he wanted to show, was that for every piece of pride in their actions - these characters had suffered tremendous shame. The series excelled in showing how gay pride may well have resulted in an outwardly hedonistic (almost enviable lifestyle) - but that each character also had to battle with a number of complex and serious demons.
The main characters of Vince, Stuart and Nathan all have their good and bad points, but amazingly, it is what happens to some of the other characters that often affects the audience most. Vince's close friend Phil has a tremendously hard hitting storyline in QAF which is not forgotten in QAF2. Alexander's easy-breezy camp lifestyle is underpinned by an enormous family weight that comes to ahead in QAF2.
Gay life isn't all being kicked in the head by neo-Nazis's, but its not all easy money/ no commitments lifestyle either - this show was brave enough to show just how far Gay Pride has come in the past 30/40 years, but also just how the notion of Shame is not so far away either - for this very reason I think this is a programme that should be repeated again and again so that we can all be exposed to a wonderfully political piece of drama that really reflects all aspects of the 'queerness' in all folk.
- GnomioBuff
- Apr 16, 2006