James Delingpole James Delingpole

You’ll wish you were gay: Channel 4’s It’s a Sin reviewed

Russell T. Davies new drama is hugely entertaining

Hugely entertaining: Omari Douglas as Roscoe in It’s a Sin 
issue 06 February 2021

To promote his new drama series about Aids in the early 1980s, Russell T. Davies insisted in an interview that gay characters should be played only by actors who are actually gay.

This was maddening for a number of reasons, starting with blatant hypocrisy. One of the things that made Davies’s Queer As Folk so watchable was Aidan Gillen’s mesmerising performance as the smirking, predatory, cocksure queen of the Mancunian gay scene Stuart Alan Jones.

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