Overview

• The 'Fellow Travelers' series, spanning from the Lavender Scare to the AIDS crisis, puts an emphasis on explicit sex scenes as storytelling devices representing power dynamics.
• To ensure LGBTQ+ representation, creators of the series made it a point to cast LGBTQ+ actors, namely Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey. Although representation was important, it was not prioritized over performance, ensuring both actors were also a perfect fit for their roles.
• Sex scenes in the show are depicted as essential parts of the narrative, serving as a realistic exploration of intimate relationships, power dynamics and the liberating experience of openness about sexuality.
• Creator Ron Nyswaner expresses the viewpoint that there should be as much sex on television as possible, contending that it forms an integral part of storytelling.
• Besides focusing on the clandestine romance of its lead characters, 'Fellow Travelers' brings to life a vivid portrait of several decades of queer history in the United States.