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Nathan Maloney is a main character from the Channel 4 drama series Queer as Folk. He is a 15 year old, new to the scene who briefly falls in love with Stuart Alan Jones.
Early Life[]
Nathan grew up in a residential area of Manchester with his parents and younger sister. When he realizes he is a homosexual, the family falls apart. During pre-adolescence, he befriended Donna, a school friend.
Personality[]
Initially naïve and insecure, according to Hazel Tyler Nathan is a hopeless drama queen. The influence of Stuart and from the Canal Street clubs make Nathan more confident of himself, perhaps too much, transforming him into a narcissistic and selfish young man, always looking for sexual pleasures to satisfy.
Physical Appearance[]
A really good-looking guy with blond bobbed hair, later combed in a more messy way, blue eyes and athletic body. Disused school uniform, he wears extra- tight t-shirt and blue jeans, as well as leather jackets and other fashionable clothes. He has a nipple piercing
Relationships[]
Stuart Alan Jones[]
Nathan meets Stuart when he first comes to Manchester's gay district. Whereas he's in the street and does not dare enter a bar or talk to someone, he has an eye contact with Stuart who comes to flirt with him and offers him to come to his place. He agrees and has a shag with Stuart. He stays at him all night and doesn't leave until the next morning after taking a shower (with Stuart). After that night, he falls madly in love with Stuart, going to the same bars as him at night, drawing him in his notebooks... Unfortunately for him, Stuart only sees him as a one-night stand (like all the other men he's had sexual relations with) even though he will continue to kiss him a few times throughout the series and want other sexual relations. In season 2, Stuart will even say to Romey : I'm friends with a sixteen year old boy. As for Nathan, we learn from his mother in season 2, that he first sees Stuart as a material boyfriend and then as a God.
Vince Tyler[]
Alexander Perry[]
Quotes[]
- I can do what I like! I’M MOZART! I’M FUCKING MOZART!
- Nathan: Donna, you don’t know her! You don’t know anything! Cos you’re straight! Right? You’re part of the system! Right? You’re part of the fascist heterosexual orthodoxy!
Donna: I’m black. And I’m a girl. Try that for a week. - Episode 5
Trivia[]
- Queer As Folk aired in 1999 when Charlie Hunnam was 18 years old. It was his first major role, and certainly a ground-breaking event, both for television and for the career of a burgeoning actor. The show’s premise involved a very good-looking, naïve young man (Nathan Maloney) who is drawn into the gay scene around Manchester’s Canal Street, one of the U.K.’s famous openly gay communities.
- In the American remake Queer as Folk (USA) Nathan has been replaced by a character named Justin Taylor, with whom he shares some characteristics:
- The family situation is almost identical.
- Both are very good at drawing.
- Both fall in love seducer duty: Stuart in the UK version, Brian in the US version.
- However, psychologically, Nathan is much more petty and sneaky than Justin. Unlike Justin, then, Nathan is not madly in love with Stuart / Brian.
- Freddie Baxter seems to be vaguely based on Nathan.
- Nathan is allergic to many foods, including peanuts, and some medicines that might get him into anaphylactic shock.
- Nathan, aged 39, makes a cameo as a potential Grindr hookup for Brodie Beaumont in the Peacock re-imagination of Queer as Folk, thus making the two series existing in the same fictional universe. Nathan's profile consisting of a shirtless picture of Charlie Hunnam, describes him as a "muscular", "dom" and "hunk".