Michael modestly describes himself as ''a semi-cute boy-next-door type,'' and the other main characters - a seductive advertising executive, a drab accountant and a wisecracking diva - are intended to be as ordinary as their hometown, Pittsburgh.īut Michael was right in the first place. We are soon meant to see the emotional longing beneath the friends' sex-with-a-stranger mentality. ![]() SHOWTIME'S made-to-shock series ''Queer as Folk'' begins with this voiceover from Michael, who has the innocent look of a teddy bear: ''The thing you need to know is, it's all about sex.'' As he speaks, he and his friends are in a gay disco called Babylon, where one dancing man wears only a silver-spangled thong, chains hang from the ceiling, drugs are common and everyone ignores the signs that read, ''No sex in the bathrooms, that's what the couches are for.''
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