Sometimes there's nothing like historical fiction to make you thank contemporary life. There's nothing better than traveling through time to put yourself in your own shoes. This often happens to me with series that show us the realities of the LGBTI generation, perhaps because they are the ones in which the West has changed the most in the shortest amount of time.
Fellow Travelers (Skyshowtime) – based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon – tells the emotional love story between Hawkes and Tim, two men from Washington's political underworld in the midst of McCarthyism. A twisting love story that spans from the Purple Terror era of the 1950s, which left more than 10,000 government workers unemployed, to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. A kind of gay Forrest Gump, whose references range from The Way We Were to the films of Ang Lee and Todd Haynes.
25 years ago, a series like “Fellow Travelers” would have been impossible for many reasons. Firstly, because of the explicit gay sex it depicts. Secondly, because it stars two openly gay stars: Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer, who also serves as an executive producer. Queer as Folk is 24 years old; 30, Philadelphia, written by Ron Nyswaner, creator of Fellow Travelers.
Gabriel Attal, new Prime Minister of France. YOAN VALAT (EFE)
I like to imagine how Gabriel Attal, the new and very young French Prime Minister, sees it. Attal, who came out in 2019, shortly afterwards explained his homosexuality: “I've always thought that you can assume it without saying it. I wonder if wearing it as a flag wouldn't help make it something unusual.” After decades of progress, some LGBTI+ people live in the privilege of others' indifference. There are those who, like Attal, apply it to their way of life. I like to imagine it, and I don't think I have, some shows put you in your place.
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