The end of something wonderful

I'm sure that it's silly to some people that I am so upset over the end of the tv series "Queer as Folk" but I am. I loved that show; I taped it religiously every Monday night and watched every rerun during the off-season. And now I just finished watching the Series Finale ...

I just bought a dvd player and I know that buying the five seasons of "Queer as Folk" will be my first purchases.

It always struck me as a little bit funny that so many of my straight friends would not even watch one episode. Because it was about gay people, they were immediately turned off. I'll tell ya, watching that guy-on-guy action turned me on! The lesbian stuff not so much but I'm sure any straight guy watching would have liked those scenes. (Interestingly enough, I know other straight women who think that male gay porn is hot and don't have any desire to watch two women getting busy. So much for the theory that every woman is bi-sexual, hey?) I just thought that the acting was superb and the storylines were great, and really, the issues that the gay community deals with are similar if not the same as the issues that plague the BDSM community.

Having sex any which way that does not necessarily include a man and a woman with "normal" penetrative sex into the vagina is considered deviant by society. I'm not homosexual but I am a masochist. Try explaining to one of those Christian fundamentalists that are running rampant in the US that pain is the only thing that truly turns me on and they are going to call me a freak and probably think that I am possessed by the devil. I say fuck them. Isn't it healthier, not to mention happier, to live your life by your own rules? As long as no one is getting hurt (unless they want to be ...) then do what you want, with who you want.

That attitude was what I loved about "Queer as Folk." They were completely unashamed of who they were and what they wanted, and I applaud the show for created such a wonderful hour for me to watch every week.