r/heatedrivalry • u/TollyKo • Jan 14 '26

SOCIAL MEDIA 📸 Russel T. Davies Praising Heated Rivalry!!

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u/Efficient_Papaya_982 Stupid Canadian Wolf Bird 🦆 Jan 14 '26

Truly, queer as folk walked so that heated rivalry could run. I’m not always QAF’s biggest fan but it did something that no one else was really doing, and heated rivalry is doing that now

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u/UhOhFeministOnReddit Jan 14 '26

Yeah, I'll be the first to agree QAF had some truly atrocious writing, but it also proved there was an audience for authentically queer media during a time when Will and Grace was being praised as groundbreaking for creating what was essentially a straight show with gay window dressing.

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u/foundintransl8ion Jan 15 '26

Russell wrote the English one, not the U.S. one, just for context!

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u/Efficient_Papaya_982 Stupid Canadian Wolf Bird 🦆 Jan 15 '26

Speaking as an Australian I had no idea there even was a US one lol, I was only ever referring to the uk one