'Queer As Folk’ star to visit Columbus June 12
Posted By Lisa K. Zellner on outlooknews.com; June 2004.
Randy Harrison likes the realness of his New York life in lower Manhattan. He hates the superficiality of Los Angeles. And he doesn’t personally know anyone in real life who is like his character on Showtime’s hit series Queer as Folk.
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This season, QAF’s fourth, Harrison’s character Justin has turned from taking a stand against discrimination to a more vigilante approach with a group the show calls the Pink Posse.
“That was really hard for me to do,” Harrison said. “Justin is always such a very rational character, very empathetic and moral, for the lack of a better word. But I sort of related to it because I understand where the character was coming from.
“I’ve never had that kind of anger. I’ve never been bashed. But the writers are mostly older gay men in their 60s and what they faced is drastically different than what I have faced personally,” he said. ‘I think that kind of anger prevents some gay people from reaching out to people who could potentially be our supporters. There’s a sort of self-segregation that comes from that kind of anger that can turn into hating straight people, which is so counter productive.
“That was so hard to play because it’s not at all where I come from. I’ve been out of the closet since I was 15. It was not that much of a big thing to me.”
Posted By Lisa K. Zellner on outlooknews.com; June 2004.
Randy Harrison likes the realness of his New York life in lower Manhattan. He hates the superficiality of Los Angeles. And he doesn’t personally know anyone in real life who is like his character on Showtime’s hit series Queer as Folk.
read more
This season, QAF’s fourth, Harrison’s character Justin has turned from taking a stand against discrimination to a more vigilante approach with a group the show calls the Pink Posse.
“That was really hard for me to do,” Harrison said. “Justin is always such a very rational character, very empathetic and moral, for the lack of a better word. But I sort of related to it because I understand where the character was coming from.
“I’ve never had that kind of anger. I’ve never been bashed. But the writers are mostly older gay men in their 60s and what they faced is drastically different than what I have faced personally,” he said. ‘I think that kind of anger prevents some gay people from reaching out to people who could potentially be our supporters. There’s a sort of self-segregation that comes from that kind of anger that can turn into hating straight people, which is so counter productive.
“That was so hard to play because it’s not at all where I come from. I’ve been out of the closet since I was 15. It was not that much of a big thing to me.”