Television: It's Here, It's Queer Get Used To It

A daring series about gays burns down the closet

Halloween may be a gay high Holy Day in Greenwich Village, but it was business as usual on the Toronto set of Queer as Folk. O.K., almost as usual. Amid various cross-dressers and naughty priests, there was a crew guy outfitted in a spangly cowboy outfit, an assistant director dressed like Cher and actresses Thea Gill and Michelle Clunie--fresh from filming a lesbian love scene--tricked out as "Texas hookers" with red feather boas. Then there was the pumpkin-carving contest, including one jolly squash accessorized with a...well, put it this way: it's not a banana, and the pumpkin is happy to see...

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