Queer as Folk (U.S.)
Excluding and Abstemiousness
TV Flash files “Excluding and Abstemiousness” as hour 75 of 83 in the TV Flash guide — Queer as Folk (U.S.) (2000–2005) on Showtime, season 5, episode 5, aired 2005-06-12, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E05: listed hour 75 of 83 in the Queer as Folk (U.S.) guide, hour 5 of 13 in season 5. It aired 2005-06-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Hard Decisions” (S05E04). Next is “Bored Out of Ya Fucking Mind” (S05E06).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Excluding and Abstemiousness sit in the Queer as Folk (U.S.) guide?
S05E05 is listed hour 75 of 83 — hour 5 of 13 in season 5, season 5 episode 5.
When did Queer as Folk (U.S.) S05E05 air?
Excluding and Abstemiousness aired 2005-06-12 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need the U.K. Queer as Folk first?
Helpful, not required. The Showtime series Americanizes Russell T Davies's dare into a Pittsburgh community epic with its own five-season life.
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Why this series still plays
Showtime Americanized Russell T Davies's dare into a Pittsburgh community epic: club nights, activism, parenting, and sex basic cable still wouldn't air. Queer as Folk is early-2000s identity television that refused to whisper — still a landmark whenever LGBTQ series get a history lesson.
The first useful permission is volume: friends and lovers in a Pittsburgh gay community dealing with sex, politics, parenting, and the club scene — unapologetic for its time on U.S. television. Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman's Showtime series (2000–2005) Americanized Russell T Davies's U.K. dare into a multi-season community epic. Gale Harold, Hal Sparks, Randy Harrison, Peter Paige, Scott Lowell, and Michelle Clunie hold a circle that basic cable still would not have aired. Club nights, activism, explicit firsts as…
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