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QUEER AS FOLK CAST ON EXPLOSIVE SEX SCENES, WORKING WITH KIM CATTRALL AND REIMAGINING A TV CLASSIC Attitude meets the dynamic cast continuing Russell T Davies’ LGBTQ+ legacy (and giving viewers a Queer Eye-ful) in Peacock’s sexually explosive new show about resilience, self-acceptance and chosen family. "Punish my white ass! My ass takes up so much space! It's so fucking privileged!" These are the hilariously uncomfortable words that launch Peacock’s hotly anticipated Queer as Folk TV revival. Followed by: “Let me pay reparations with my tight hole!” Moments later, lead character Brodie bails on his hook-up after removing his lover’s jockstrap to find… a Black Lives Matter tattoo. Then, after the white saviour declines Brodie’s parting request for Venmo payment for a hotel, Brodie retorts: “And here I thought you were an ally!”  And with that, this writer picked his jaw up off the floor, Karen from Mean Girls-style. A fiscally tight hole, maybe. “It’s one of my favourite scenes,” laughs actor Devin Way, who plays Brodie. “It speaks so clearly to the tone we’re setting for heavy issues moving forward: so racially charged, right at the top, speaking not only to the hypersexualisation of Black people by white people, but performative allyship. We let people put BLM in their bios, and they don’t actually exert any allyship! We got to speak on this topic, and it got to be sexy, smart, fun and drive a point forward.” READ MORE SEBASTIAN VETTEL: FORMULA ONE IS READY FOR AN OUT GAY DRIVER Aston Martin’s four-time F1 World Champion tells Attitude's July/August issue about putting his foot down about anti-gay prejudice as Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud watch on. In 30 years of Attitude magazine, many straight allies have graced the front cover, from Prince William and Dame Joan Collins to Robbie Williams and then Prime Minister Tony Blair, with a handful of sportsmen among them — footballer David Beckham, cricketer James Anderson and swimmer Adam Peaty. But never a Formula One driver. Until now, with Sebastian Vettel. The four-time World Champion is still the youngest man ever to clinch a title (at 23 years and 134 days in 2010) and is currently racing for Aston Martin in motorsport’s premier series. It’s little surprise it’s taken so long. Since the first World Championship Formula One event, the British Grand Prix in 1950, there have been 771 drivers of 41 different nationalities and yet only three of them have been openly (make that semi- openly) LGBTQ: Nicha Cabral, who raced four World Championship Formula One Grands Prix in the early 60s, lived a closeted life and finally came out as bisexual at 75; 70s and 80s driver Lella Lombardi, one of only two women to have raced in a World Championship Formula One Grand Prix, was a lesbian; and Mike Beuttler, who raced 28 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix in the early 70s, was a gay man. READ MORE HEARTSTOPPER'S ADORABLE SNOW SCENE NAMED 'BEST MUSICAL MOMENT' AT THE MTV MOVIE AND TV AWARDS We're still listening to the Heartstopper Official Mixtape so this makes sense! TAYLOR ZAKHAR PEREZ AND NICHOLAS GALITZINE TO PLAY ENEMIES-TURNED LOVERS IN GAY ROM-COM The film based on Casey McQuiston's novel is set to enter production in June. FIRE ISLAND'S JOEL KIM BOOSTER ON PULLING OFF 'THE BIGGEST SCAM IN THE WORLD' The writer and actor of the gay rom-com marvels at getting Disney to include the film's sex scenes. NICOLA ADAMS, TOM PRIOR AND MORE DELIVER POWERFUL READINGS IN SPEAKING OF PRIDE, EMPOWERED BY BENTLEY Julian Morris, Paul Sinha, Jack Guinness and Lewys Ball also star in the series. WIN £250 GYMSHARK GIFTCARD AND COPY OF STRONGMAN ROB KEARNEY'S FIRST BOOK 'STRONG' All you need to do is enter. ATTITUDE JULY/AUGUST ISSUE The all-new Queer as Folk cast! Plus: Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel on standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, sexual liberation and Pride, toxic top and bottom culture, and more.

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