The executive producers are the gay coupled team Daniel Lipman and Ron Cowan the team which also produced the award winning An Early Frost.

Like the original, it takes place in a working class city rather than Chelsey, the Castro, or Church-Wellsley focusing on the relationships, careers, loves and ambitions of the characters.   Their neighbourhood is Liberty Avenue, a gay strip with a couple of bars,  a disco, a few shops and a diner.  Many of the scenes were shot outdoors on Church Street, or indoors at Fly and The Guvernment.

There's nudity, lots of it, and the actors were required to list what they would (and more importantly what they wouldn't do) in front of the camera.

The Queers

Brian

Brian is a sexual animal, who’s always on the prowl for his next conquest. His successful targets in the first episodes include a 17 year old at home, a male nurse in the hospital, a guy in the gym, and a married client in the washroom. On the verge of 30... and fatherhood. A casual sperm donation to lesbian friend Lindsay leaves this badboy-sexy advertising exec. with more on his hands than his image can handle — or his money can buy. From irresistible playboy to papa?

He's played by Gale Harold. Harold made his stage debut as Bunny in Gillian Plowman's Me and My Friend at the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Other stage credits include Long Days Journey into Night, The Importance of Being Earnest, Miss Julie and Sweet Bird of Youth. He made his feature debut in Paul Scheuring's 36K and then appeared in Mental Hygiene. He was subsequently accepted to the Actor's Conservatory Program where he appeared in productions of The Misanthrope and Cymbeline.

Michael

Michael is Brian’s best friend. Also around 30 he's the manager of the local Big Q Mart. He loves comic books and Brian, although he won’t admit his feelings for his best friend.  His mother is played by Sharon Gless (Cagney & Lacey). She is eccentric and vehemently proud of her gay son.

Actor/comedian Hal Sparks who plays Michael began his professional career as a teenager in Chicago. As a member of the famed Second City Troupe, his quick wit and affable personality quickly gained him recognition and acclaim.

In 1987 he was named the "Funniest Teenager in Chicago" by the Chicago Sun-Times.

After a successful run with Second City, Sparks moved to Los Angeles and immediately began performing at numerous comedy clubs, including The Improv, The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory and The Ice House, as well as at Comic Relief's American Comedy Festival.

From 1999-2000, Sparks was the host of the Emmy Award-winning Talk Soup on E! Entertainment Television, winning rave reviews from fans and critics alike.

In addition, Hal currently appears in the 20th Century Fox comedy, Dude, Where's My Car? Other film credits include the comedy Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town with Billy Bob Thornton. His numerous television appearances include Politically Incorrect, MTV, Hollywood Squares, The View, The Martin Short Show, The List and Martial Law.

He also starred in his own sketch comedy pilot entitled Here Comes the Neighborhood and produced comedy segments for the Disney Channel. On the stage, Sparks has performed in such productions as Equus, The Elephant Man and Brighton Beach Memoirs.

A native of Peak's Mill, Kentucky, Sparks spent several years in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles. He is an accomplished singer-songwriter and an expert in the martial arts with over 20 years experience in Shaolin Kung Fu, Wushu, Kung Fu San Soo, Tae Kwan Do and Karate.

Emmett

Emmett is the most flamboyant of all his friends and wears his sexuality with pride.  When a hooker torched his building, he crashed at Michael's on a temporary basis. Two years later nothing's changed. For Emmett, the temporary is an eternal state of mind. He's the flash. The flame. The tease of the party. Some call him queeny. To others, he rules with a wit that never flinches and a style you can't forget.

Peter Page is the actor behind Emmett. There's no easy way to categorize Paige, only to say that he is truly a Renaissance man: an accomplished actor, director, and playwright who has worked on countless theatrical productions in New York and at regional theaters around the country, not to mention numerous television and film projects. Now, however, Paige has put his myriad of talents aside to focus on his first true love, acting.

Paige's childhood can be best described as transient. He lived in seven different states before graduating from high school. Constantly moving from place to place, Paige quickly learned how to adapt to a new environment and how to make friends. The one constant in his life was acting, a passion he discovered at the tender age of six, when he played The Scarecrow in his first grade production of The Wizard of Oz. The budding thespian instantly knew he had found the great love of his life, and wanted to pursue theatrical arts as a career. In addition to acting, the young Paige was also ardent about writing and directing. In fourth grade, he wrote, directed and starred in his very first original play, Grease: The College Years, a clever spin-off of the hugely popular film Grease. Paige continued to pursue acting, writing, and directing throughout his middle and high school career, performing in innumerable school and community plays. When the time for college inevitably rolled around, Paige decided on Boston University's prestigious School of Theatre Arts, to which he received a full scholarship. It was here that Paige truly developed his acting talents, studying everything from David Mamet to William Shakespeare, twelve to fifteen hours a day in the university's classical theatre conservatory.

After graduating summa cum laude from BU, the ambitious actor moved to New York, in pursuit of more plentiful acting work. Upon arrival in the city, however, Paige did not find his services in demand quite the way he had hoped. Most of the acting work he found was either low or non-paying. In order to support himself, Paige ran through a series of jobs, everything from hotel work to waiting tables, eventually winding up working for an art gallery. It was here that the actor began to envy the visual artists whose work graced the gallery walls - for these artists created their own products, on their own schedules; they needed no one's permission to do their work. Inspired, Paige vowed to recommit himself to the kind of work that he had created throughout his life - his own.

Soon the actor was associated with a group of playwrights, directors, and actors at Playwright's Horizons, a theatre where he workshopped dozens of new plays. He toured the country performing Moliere's Tartuffe (in two languages!), and began leaving New York to perform at theatres around the country. Paige eventually relocated to Portland, Oregon, where he worked for two years on the city's Equity stages. Once again he proved his versatility, performing everything from the classics such as A Midsummer Night's Dream to edgy, contentious works by promising young playwrights.

It was on one of Portland's stages that Paige was discovered by his current manager, who immediately saw his potential and brought Paige to Los Angeles. Paige's first audition in L.A. landed him a hilarious guest spot on Suddenly Susan, as Neil Pomeratz, the nervous undertaker. This was followed by roles on Caroline in the City, MTV'S Undressed, Time of Your Life, Movie Stars, and Will and Grace, among others. Paige also continued to generate his own work, collaborating on several projects such as Twisted and Pantophobia, performed at theatres around Los Angeles. The stream of roles eventually led the budding star to become one of the talented members of the cast of Queer as Folk.

If asked about hobbies, Paige will tell you that he "lives to work," but will admit to a fondness for politics and sushi. He is an avid tennis fan, though he swears he's a terrible player himself. Paige still has a love of contemporary art (from his gallery days) and an infatuation with mid-century design. A talented, socially active, versatile artist who is living his lifelong dream, Paige brings charm, timing, and truth to all his work-particularly to the revolutionary Queer as Folk.

Ted