Queer as Folk (Part One: Episodes Five-Eight)
NR, 135 min.
Directed by Sarah Harding, Charles Mcdougall, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Aidan Gillen, Craig Kelly, Charlie Hunnam.

TheAustin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF) presents one ofthe favorites from the recent festival: this gay British TV soap opera,Queer as Folk. Produced by Channel Four for British television, the serieshas broken taboos with its frank sexual openness and nudity. The storylinechronicles the lives and loves of a trio of gay men from Manchester.

This article appears in October 8 • 1999.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.