{"id":1526,"date":"2014-12-28T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2014-12-27T18:13:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T00:13:23","slug":"two-new-interconnected-series-from-queer-as-folk-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1526","title":{"rendered":"Two New Interconnected Series from Queer As Folk Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ashley R. Lierman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two interconnected gay drama series from <em>Queer As Folk <\/em>creator Russell T. Davies, called <em>Banana<\/em> and<em>Cucumber<\/em>, have recently been announced. According to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.out.com\/entertainment\/television\/2014\/12\/16\/banana-and-cucumber-two-new-interconnecting-lgbt-series-creator-\">Out<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The two interwoven drama series will explore 21st?century gay life in all its powerful, witty, dark and uplifting guises through the lens of two disparate generations. The hour-long?<em>Cucumber<\/em>?will explore the lives and misadventures of Henry Best and his long-suffering boyfriend of nine years, Lance Sullivan. The half-hour<em>Banana<\/em>?will follow the individual lives of younger characters orbiting around Henry?s world, telling?stories of modern love ? the romantic, the obsessed, the hopeful, the lonely, the lost, and the lucky ? in an urban Manchester, England setting.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ashley R. Lierman Two interconnected gay drama series from Queer As Folk creator Russell T. Davies, called Banana andCucumber, have recently been announced. According to Out: &#8220;The two interwoven drama series will explore 21st?century gay life in all its powerful, witty, dark and uplifting guises through the lens of two disparate generations. The hour-long?Cucumber?will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}