Hi,

I’m Sarah. I found Queer As Folk because I got hooked on to a Male/Male storyline and that ended so I went to YouTube and typed in about Male/Male relationships and there was a video of the hottest male couples. And I watched it, and the names were at the sides.

So I figured I’d look them up one by one and first on the list was Brian and Justin So I watched that from the very beginning, That was a few days ago and I still haven’t seen most of Brian/Justin from Seasons 4 and 5 But I have not seen the full episodes but I’m going to start watching them online which I look forward to.

So that’s it for now, feel Free to Friend me and I’d be more then happy to chat.

I totally meant to post this yesterday, but the day got nuts.





The maintainers at qaf_comingout would like to apologize for the lack of anniversary posts in December and January. notreallyme10 was sort of left holding the bag by the other maintainers and she couldn't get it all done on her own. I think *I've* finally gotten my head out of my ass and plan to start helping more again and outlander's back *AND* now we've also got fun_demented on board, so you know things will improve!

HAPPY Queer as Folk ANNIVERSARY to our only December "baby," circadia, who joined us December 6, 2007. Congratulations! We're glad you found this wonderful playground.

January's a busy month for Queer as Folk fans it seems! In 2005, we all had the good fortune to have happier_bunny join the fray. I can't imagine fandom without her recs and challenges and asylums! 2007 was a good year for fandom, because alafaye joined us on the 1st, the always enthusiastic secretsolitaire joined on the 19th and qafmaniac brought her video and icons skills to us on the 23rd!

In January 2008, we were joined by the wonderfully kind and graphically talented nerilka24 on the 12th and in 2009, my favorite co-writer and wonderful author ahaw9913 came on board on the 29th! One year already, girl!!

February, the month of love, what a great month to join and celebrate TEH Love! In 2006, our own notreallyme10 joined IJ on the 15th, the divine and lovely not_yet_defined came on board in February 2007 and in 2009, we were joined by dottie_jane on the 26th and pour_us_a_road on the 29th.

Insane Journal without any of these wonderful folks just wouldn't be the wonderful queer wilderness that it is. Please stop in sometime and congratulate them!'

( other fandom news/anniversaries under this cut! )

Helloooo

This is my second foray into QAF fandom. My first was 2/3 years ago, but I don't think I ever got round to more than posting the occasional drabble/comment because my interest was waning a bit by then. Since then I've read a bit of fic sometimes, but haven't really lurked around that much in general. I hadn't even watched an episode of the show in probably a year or more until a couple of weeks ago. And I guess re-discovering my QAF love is what's brought me here. I'm kinda hoping being around will keep it burning!

As for discovering the show, it was just after it had finished. I loved the UK version, but HATED Season 1 of the US version on first watch. Literally, almost everything about it annoyed me, but I still persevered with it into Season 2. I don't actually know why, because that's a lot of episodes of not really liking stuff! Anyway Season 2 was when I started to like it, Season 3 I started to love it, Season 4 I loved it really hard. Season 5 I had issues with, but they are resolved now! And of course, when I started watching from Season 1 again as soon as I'd finished with Season 5, I found I loved that too. It's the UK version I can't stand to watch now, strangely enough. :P

I would've put some deep thinky thoughts about why I love QAF, but it's nearly 2.00am here, so I'll cut to the chase... the characters and their relationships are beautiful and complicated and real, and I love the journey that each of them goes on. In particular I love Brian and Justin's journeys, as individuals and as a couple. They have have amazing chemistry, an interesting dynamic and I love how they push each other to be the best they can be. :)

Summary: I like QAF again now, and I'm hoping I have enough time and inclination to hang around this time!

Hi! I decided to de-lurk cos this place looks like fun and the people seem friendly.
And I have no-one to talk about QAF with. *sob*

I first saw the UK version when it originally broadcast, along with other late night shows that I was probably too young to be watching. I can’t really remember what I first thought of it. Then I rented it a few years later and didn’t love it. While I appreciated the groundbreaking-ness of it, I thought the acting was kinda crap and Nathan’s accent annoyed the hell out of me. So I decided to check out the US version online and thought it was SO much better, and I can’t think of many instances where a remake of a British series is as successful as this one. At times I thought the writing was cheesy, (good god do Cowlip love a pun) but I much preferred it, the characters and the actors. I suppose it helps that the characters had a longer arc to be developed and fleshed out, and that the actors are a lot more attractive.

I discovered fanfic in my late night wanderings of the internet, which led me here. I never thought I would have any interest in fanfic of any kind, but damn, there are some good writers in this fandom! I’m looking forward to meeting fellow fans, because I don’t know anyone who has even seen the show in RL.

To sum up, I love the show and hello!

Hi there.

I’ve been kindly pointed in this direction by alicesprings who seems to have far more superior understanding of these things than me.

How did I get into QAF? Well, I’m from North East England. The area of England where the phrase originated, actually (small world, I know) so I obviously caught the English version back when it was aired. I wanted to get into it (I have a kind of type A, addictive personality that seems to attach itself to TV shows)but it finished before I got a chance, really, and I kinda forgot about it and went on with my life, and then I started college and my roommate, who happens to be gay (think Emmett but more hysterical with slicker dress sense) pulled out the box sets one night while I was trying to study for an exam.
“Can you stop with the annoying tapping!” He yelled to where I was (not annoyingly) tapping through online journals, “I’m trying to watch Queers!”
I was baffled for a second and then braced myself for hardcore gay porn to flash up across the room. “What’s that?”
Obviously, he was horrified and slammed my laptop shut and made me spend the next two days watching the entire first season.
Now let it just be said that I am proud to be British. I talk the talk and fly the flag and enjoy a gracious helping of fish and chips as much as the next, but there are some things (alot, actually) of which Britain must admit defeat. And US QAF kicked UK QAF's arse. Fact and point.
The actors were hotter the sex was hotter (the weather was mostly the same, really, but that was ok).
I, of course, got hooked instantly and spent the next week risking deep vain thrombosis on my couch watching all four seasons and then spending one infuriating week on the internet trying to find somewhere I could download series 5, which was unavailable in the UK until August last year.
It was during these searches that I stumbled upon fandom. Well, what’s a type A, TV addict girl with a dynamic gay roommate to do? (Can you tell I’m a psychology graduate?)
To answer your question, I lurked around for a while reading incredible fanfic and watching incredible videos, that kind of did nothing but feed my addictive personality (nothing heavy, mainly just chocolate and TV shows) and then eventually biting the bullet and posting some of my own.
Long (long, long,) story short, I need someone to beta one of my stories :)
I’ve posted some already on my LJ and IJ l_j_88 and already have an amazingly helpful (and brave!) beta for the writing challenge, but this one looks to be longish (WIP) and I’m kind of flying blind (also being British means American vocab boggles me).

I was told by someone far wiser than me (aka alicesprings )that this may be the place to go and say hi and beg for some help on the subject.
So here I am, begging. And also saying a big hello.
HI.

Lacey Jay.
Xx

Hi everyone!

I'm Kathleen and I'd say I found Queer as Folk about three years ago, though I saw my first episode what seems a long time before that. That was 1.11, I happened to catch most of it when aimlessly zapping through the TV one night. I remember being quite shocked at the explicit sex scene between Ted and the positive guy, and intrigued enough to look it up in the TV guide, but for some reason I never followed up on it. Maybe was a last week off school and I had to go to bed earlier after that, or a national holiday fucked up the airing schedule, or maybe they'd really just run it for a test... it does seem much longer ago than the official airing dates for Germany say. Anyway, I lost sight of it, and while I kept thinking of it occasionally, I never went looking for it, and it wasn't really advertised in mainstream media here either, so the second time I caught it was pretty much like the first - chance.

This time it was episode 2.19, and what I remembered from 1.11 was a big fight at some party, Michael being with some kind of doctor named David, Justin leaving with Debbie the next morning (though I either hadn't caught on or forgotten about his relationship with Brian), and parts of Emmett's story line, so of course I had a lot of questions. Why had Michael and David broken up? When did Brian and Justin get together? Are those episodes even in sequence or is this a re-run and Michael met David when Ben was in Tibet? It was enough to drive me online and find out. I went to some German forums first and got the cliff notes version, trying not to be spoiled too much. There was no hiatus between seasons two and three, and before the end of the latter I'd bought the first to seasons on DVD - which were all that were out here at the time - and watched them ad nauseum. And was debating with my bank account over going on ebay and getting the other seasons from the US. I mean, I hadn't even taped the first half of season three, so I'd seen it only once, before I really knew what was going on, and in German no less. So during the hiatus after season three I got the rest of the DVDs - one by one, with a month in between each, but still before season four started - and found the by then mostly quiet refugee forum and What Love Means. I read all the recaps there, and then broke down and got sucked into fan fiction right after I ran out of them. I fell in love with Severina and she lead me to live journal. And now I'm here and chewing your ears off :-)

Finding Queer as Folk and fandom had a real impact on me. I live in a pretty rural area, and while I was aware that homosexuality existed, I was never exposed to it. Yes, if asked I'd have said that gay people should have the same rights straight people do, but that was pretty abstract, it wasn't a subject that I was particularly invested in. And I didn't think I'd be comfortable witnessing PDAs between same-sex couples - never mind that the only place I'd ever 'witnessed' it was on Dawson's Creek, where the awkwardness was there on purpose. The blatant sexuality on Queer as Folk was quite a shock in the beginning, but once I got used to it I realized that there were a lot of important issues I'd never thought about, and that we still had a long way to go to make the world as it should be, even in our oh so free and equal western culture. Except for the 'watching it' part, my basic opinions haven't changed, but they're much stronger now, I'm more aware of the problems and I'm much better informed and even more politically interested and active in general.

God, that got long, sorry for rambling so much. Get back to enjoying your Sunday!

Hi everyone!

I'm viviane (anevivi on both InsaneJournal and LiveJournal) I started at LiveJournal not that long ago, primarily in the Merlin and Star Trek fandoms. But then I found QAF this summer and fell in love with Brian Kinney (or lust, really. I'm not actually sure which, but I don't guess it really matters as the end result is the same!). Justin I didn't love at first (his earnestness made me squirm in my chair and want to protect him from the world!) but by Season Three (and really, well before that) he had carved himself a rather large place in my gleeful, fannish little heart.

I marathoned all five seasons in a very, very (embarrassingly) short amount of time and have been watching my favorite clips and episodes over and over since then.

It took me awhile to find the fandom--I wasn't expecting to find it here, and I'm actually not sure how I did.  I think a friend of mine who was never really involved in the fandom deeply told me about the migration and I wandered over here.  Imagine my surprise when I found such an active community for a show that's off the air!  A lot of people seem to leave fandoms when shows are over but that's never been me, so I was glad to find everyone!

I'm primarily a writer and I've already jumped right in on that front.  But my flist is looking a little lonely over here and on LiveJournal, though I have friends who love the show, none of them seem to want to talk about it with the frequency that I do!  But I've been poking around and everyone over here seems really friendly, so I'd like to through my hat in the ring as it were and start meeting some of you.

So, hello! I'm glad to meet you all.

xoxo,
viviane

Hey folks~
I always avoided IJ because I was like: Where's the point coming here if we already have LJ?
lulz, well - I needed to read and comment on stuff that only can be found here, so I finally gave in and made an account.
It's still somehow confusing X_x
While this looks like LJ and is somewhat familar, it's also different in some points and I think I'll need a while to get used to this system and all - so forgive me if I may do stupid things the next few days, lol

Erh, how I got into QAF?
In my country we had a forum for ppl who love yaoi (gay-stuff in anime/manga) and the ppl there told me a NEW EXCITING SPECIAL tv show with hot boys is airing soon, lol
That was in early 2006 and I watched the first season and a bit of the 2nd.
I was hooked immediately, but because of the sexy content it aired later and later every week and then around 1am in the morning and due to school I couldn't watch it anymore (had no video recorder), so I stopped watching it.
But this summer I bought the 1st season on dvd, because it was on sale and I got hooked again but also heavily addicted ^^;
I bought the rest and hello - here I am ^^°

Looking forward to interesting discussions and hot fanfics ;)
If you have questions then ask right away :D

So this is where the party's at! I just discovered QAF this past October.  I decided to check it out after I fell in love with "Brokeback Mountain" in August and saw that quite a few BBM fans also liked QAF.

I am also fairly new to fandom in general. Other than following the work of one group of Buffy the Vampire slayer fans for several years, I never ventured far into fandom before I watched BBM and QAF.  In fact, I was totally oblivious to all of the fandom(s) on Livejournal. I find this especially amusing because I actually was pretty active on LJ around 2002, a time when you still needed an invite code to get an account.  It was what we hip college students used back in the day before there was myspace or facebook.  Obviously a lot has happened since then. It took me a few weeks to figure out that much of the QAF community had migrated over to IJ.  I have since learned more about the events in 2007 that prompted that move.

Anyway, there are a number of reasons why I love QAF
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I didn't know about the QaF fandom, InsaneJournal, or even LiveJournal until a week ago. I found you because I was searching for QaF forums, having just started watching the series again and having no one to talk to about it. I first started watching from the pilot in 2002 on SBS tv here in Australia. Believe it or not I haven't seen season 5 or quite a bit of 4. So I have a lot to look forward to!

I posted in my journal about what it was like discovering QaF for the first time. I have also been posting in the Gusmas drabble challenge and having an absolute ball. This is such a wonderful place to be, I really have come home.

I'm a mum of a 1 year old and a 6 year old. I also study part time, but the semester's finished, which is why it was time to indulge in the warmth and colour of my darling boys and girls who I'd missed all these years.

Today I just finished watching season 1 for the 2nd time in my life. It was weird watching the last episode again. I couldn't look forward to prom because I knew what would happen. When I saw it the first time I was truly a mess (I was pregnant too, and it was like I was walking around with a few layers of skin missing, emotionally speaking). I couldn't stop crying. The way they played it, I thought Justin had died. Then I had to wait for ages until they screened the next season. It's so different coming to it knowing how it turns out. Less upsetting, but also less deep an experience.

Anyway, it's a joy to meet you all. Another lengthy post! Thank God for the constraints imposed by drabbles ^_^~

Happy Fandom Anniversary to all of our friends who joined us in November!






Normally we remind you of some of the wonderful things that have happened in November but with all the new goodies at The Fall Contest and Weather/Vacation fics at qaf_challenges I was too busy to make a list figured we all had plenty to keep us busy!

If you haven't already, please go tell us when your anniversary is in this post. If you aren't sure of the exact date make one up give us your best guess!

Thank you to the lovely qafmaniac for the anniversary icons and the beautiful banner!

I am a new fan of Queer as Folk, just finished watching the show about two months ago. (I watched it in less than two weeks.) I had heard about it before, of course, but paid it no mind. I caught the UK version on hulu which made me want to watch the US version. Luckily my friend had the first two seasons on dvd. And well, once I started watching, I couldn't stop until I finished it all. I am so glad the fandom for this show is still so huge and vibrant, for newcomers like me!
Like most people I'm a long time user of livejournal, but came here because all of the amazing qaf resoucres. This is the first fandom I have gotten into fanfic with, and I've become addicted to it! I'm really looking forward to being involved in this fandom as I've been a lurker most of the time, but I am trying to change that!

Happy Fandom Anniversary to all of our friends who joined us in October!





( Here are some of the other exciting fandom events from October )

If you haven't already, please go tell us when your anniversary is in this post. If you aren't sure of the exact date make one up give us your best guess!

Thank you to the lovely qafmaniac for the anniversary icons and the beautiful banner!

Hi guys! *Waves*

Well. Like most people, I've been a long time LJ-er while I only joined IJ yesterday. I've only been a fan of the show for a couple of months but I'm very dedicated to it. I actually joined for Queer as Folk when I noticed most of the comms had moved over here and therefore my IJ is decidated only to QAF, I'm glad to have a nice space where I can just put all my love (obsessive of course) for B/J without scaring anybody. It was also easier for me to track IJ posts if I had one myself. So I would appreciate any help or guidance the lovely qaf_comingout members have for me.

About my person? I'm 20 years old, I'm from London, England and a soon to be English Literature student (lifetime goal of teacherdom.) I have a dog call Jack and way too much interest in slash.

The thing I love about Queer as Folk is how normal it is. It's just life as it is but just with gay men and women. I'm fond of saying love is love. There isn't another word for it. One of my more brilliant thoughts I'd admit but the sentiment is the same. Brian and Justin, Ben and Michael, all the characters, have these great relationships I'm so glad to see many of the writers are still portraying now as I'm just starting out. (I'm a writer and graphics maker.)

So, yeah. I'm just really glad to be here. :)

Happy Fandom Anniversary to all of our friends who joined us in August!







( Here are some of the other exciting fandom events from August )

If you haven't already, please go tell us when your anniversary is in this post. If you aren't sure of the exact date make one up give us your best guess!

Thank you to the lovely qafmaniac for the anniversary icons and the beautiful banner!

I've been around 6 months so I probably don't get to clain newby status, so I'll just have to claim ignorant status.

I know that some of you have 5000 available userpics. I have even seen an icon about it(digging the irony of an icon about having icons :D). But, how does one get 5000 userpics?

I am starting to freak out a little, cause I have almost filled my 500 userpics available and I haven't even started to upload the Clusterf*ck goodies!!! I really don't want to have to delete any of my wonderful, tiny bits o'love!

So, if you have them and/or know how I can get them, please let me know! Thanks as always for any help!

Hello everyone! Ive only just joined IJ..i know *shockhorror* but ive been over at LJ for about 5 years and never really looked at IJ before..until i got into the QAF fandom and then there was just no way i could be involved and not be here!!So here i am..

Well i should start with how long ive been in the fandom huh? I would say its been about..4-5 long, plentyful and fantastic...weeks LOL. Yes i got into the fandom very late. But never fear there is a reason for this. What's the reason you ask? Well. Im English. LOL. Yes, i was raised on a diet of Stuart and Vince and Nathan, not in fact our dear Brian, Micheal and Justin. I started watching the UK version when i was about...12 i think LOL..My mother is a very open parent and she always let me watch just about anything mainly because she wanted me to know the truth about things rather than thinking something compleatly stupid and untrue. But yes, fabulous Pittsburgh was Magical Manchester for me until not long ago..although i have actully been to Cannal street where they filmed the english version and its nice..they really have a cannal with a boat and everything lol..

Anyway, how i really got into the REAL version (as i like to call it) of QAF is not that brilliant lol. I was in HMV and looking through the sale DVD'S when i spotted the title 'Queer as folk'. Remembering mine and my mothers love of the tv show i picked it up and came face to face with the beauty that is Brian Kinney and Justin Taylor. And were they ever beautiful. I debated for a while whether i should buy the set but really i was already sold. They were just too HOT. So i brought them back home and started my pleasureable viewing. Drooled over Brian half naked and dripping wet. Was fasinated by teh sexing between Brian and Justin, got pissed off at alot of people, smiled and squeed like a good fangirl when Justin and Brian dance, cried when Justin was hurt. Felt my heart crack over Brian screaming over Justin. Felt my heart compleatly shatter at Brain covered in blood and crying....typical reaction to the first season then LOL.

After that it was the second season, then i had to have the third season and i went through much the same thing with those as well. Strangely enough even though the show finished 4 years ago about we only just got season 4 on dvd and season 5 isn't out till September..trust me im dying inside LOL.

Anyway this is getting kind of long so ill end with ICONS!!! I just posted a few over at my journal...I decided to make some 'Tweak says' icons because..well because that thing is awsome and there is a hell of a lot of QAF love up there! Please feel free to take them...and also feel free to freind me! Im brand new here and i dont have any freinds lol, im a loner all on my tod! So i would appreciate the company!!

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