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Queer as Folk S5E3 — Fags Are No Different than People

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Queer as Folk•Season 5•Episode 3

Fags Are No Different than People

8.1/10 · 222 votesMay 29, 200548 min

Ranked #7 of 13 in Season 5•−0.3 vs season avg

Brian and Michael grow further apart as Brian struggles to save Liberty Avenue from gentrification and Michael embraces domestic life. The street may never be the same when Debbie decides to retire from the diner and newcomer Loretta Pye takes over.

Directed byMichael DeCarlo

Written byRon Cowen, Daniel Lipman

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Seasons5

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Move and Leave

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Back in Business

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Fags Are No Different than People

Hard Decisions still

Hard Decisions

Excluding and Abstemiousness still

Excluding and Abstemiousness

Bored Out of Ya Fucking Mind still

Bored Out of Ya Fucking Mind

Hope Against Hope still

Hope Against Hope

Honest to Yourself still

Honest to Yourself

Anything in Common still

Anything in Common

I Love You still

I Love You

Fuckin' Revenge still

Fuckin' Revenge

Mr. Right (Never Broke a Promise) still

Mr. Right (Never Broke a Promise)

We Will Survive! still

We Will Survive!

Cast12

Gale Harold

Gale Harold

Brian Kinney

Randy Harrison

Randy Harrison

Justin Taylor

Hal Sparks

Hal Sparks

Michael Novotny

Peter Paige

Peter Paige

Emmett Honeycutt

Scott Lowell

Scott Lowell

Ted Schmidt

Sharon Gless

Sharon Gless

Debbie Novotny

Alec McClure

Alec McClure

Chris Hobbs

Thea Gill

Thea Gill

Lindsay Peterson

Michelle Clunie

Michelle Clunie

Melanie Marcus

Robert Gant

Robert Gant

Ben Bruckner

Jack Wetherall

Jack Wetherall

Vic Grassi

E

Edgar George

Monty

Crew8

R

Ron Cowen

Writer

Michael DeCarlo

Michael DeCarlo

Director

D

Daniel Lipman

Writer

R

Ron Cowen

Story

D

Daniel Lipman

Story

B

Brad Fraser

Story

Lisa Grootenboer

Lisa Grootenboer

Editor

B

Brad Fraser

Teleplay

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Episode Summary

"Fags Are No Different than People" is episode 3 of Queer as Folk season 5. It scored 8.1/10 from 222 votes, ranking #7 of 13 episodes this season (season average 8.4). Directed by Michael DeCarlo and written by Ron Cowen, Daniel Lipman, it aired on May 29, 2005.

Next: E4 · Hard Decisions Best of Season 5