Queer Reader - If the inanity of the series telescript doesn't satisfy your cravings, the folks behind Queer as Folk have put the backstory on sale with Every Nine Seconds - A Queer As Folk Novel. Here's the book jacket sketch:

Before they were grown men working and playing in Pittsburgh, Brian Kinney and Michael Novotny were high-school friends dealing with bullies, secret crushes, and their emerging sexuality. Step back in time with two of QAF's hottest characters in the first book in this provocative new series.

Ugh. Are homos really dumb enough to read this stuff? Sure, I used to read Alan Dean Foster's pulp novels based on the off-camera lives of the Star Wars gang, but that was when I was nine. QAF seems like an odd candidate for spinoff fiction. Showtime's gay soap opera is supposedly intended for mature audiences. Oh, what am I saying? Forget I mentioned it.