Sunshine, how did I ever get along without you?

Brian Kinney & Justin Taylor

I find it odd just how attached I can find myself to characters in a TV show versus people in real life. Dawson and I have been watching Queer as Folk like maniacs, going through two or three episodes a day. We both find ourselves falling more and more in love with the characters and feeling like their fictional lives somehow affect our real ones. It’s a silly feeling, that’s something that I certainly cannot lie about; but I’m sure that a few would be hardpressed to say that they did not have some kind of television show or movie or book that made them feel the exact same way. Why I feel so connected it’s hard to say. The truth is I don’t really know the answer. All I know is that these characters, these people that someone somewhere just made up and Gale Harold, Randy Harrison, Peter Paige and countless others just imitate, just “pretend” to be… these characters are probably more real to me than many of the people in my life.

Perhaps that’s just because, on TV, you’re the one that gets to see everyone’s secrets without having anyone know. It makes you feel so much safer than venturing out into the real world with the knowledge that the person behind the glass can see you just as clearly as you can see him.