When Looking’s creators - screenwriter Michael Lannan and director Andrew Haigh (45 Years, Weekend) - kicked off their dramedy about three younger males searching for love in San Francisco in January 2014, similar-intercourse marriage wasn’t legal for all U.S. The U.S. model (set in a much-gayer version of Pittsburgh) wasted no time showing Brian (Gale Harold) and teenage Justin (Randy Harrison) in the first male-on-male intercourse scene on American tv. Before Queer as Folk premiered on Showtime in December 2000, folks passed around bootleg VHS tapes of Russell T. Davies’ original British version as a result of the show shocked and impressed and was filled with gritty cinematography and irony. Bhattacharjee, Gayatri (29 December 2009). "Defying stigma, Assam women tie the knot". In December 2015, Socialist Samajwadi Party Minister Azam Khan who was the then Uttar Pradesh Minister for Urban Development labelled RSS members as "homosexuals" claiming that it was the rationale for their supposed state of unmarriage.
