TV that is as genuinely audacious as the BBC's What It Feels Like for a Girl doesn't come around often. Insofar as queer media goes, the first comparison that might come to mind is Queer as Folk , which arrived on British TV screens in the ‘90s like a bright pink meteor. This series, an adaptation of trans writer Paris Lees ’ bestselling memoir, feels every bit as fearless and frank. It's all in there: underage sex work, drug abuse, abusive parents, homophobia, transphobia, armed robbery, that bit where a guy gets pegged with a toilet brush…

Inspired by Lees' early life, the series centres on 15-year-old Byron, a young gay kid who comes of age in '00s Hucknall (or, as most of the locals put it, ‘Ucknall), your classic English small town just outside of Nottingham . Byron isn

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