"Ooo, you gave him your boo-gina?"

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Last night, 'Noah's Arc' premiered on LOGO, and I have to say that I was impressed. For those of you who haven't heard about it, 'Noah's Arc' is a series about 4 black gay friends in Los Angeles, in a similar vein as Showtime's 'Queer as Folk' (which recently celebrated its final season). The show chronicles the ups and downs of gay life as experienced by the fairly diverse group of friends. Noah, the title character is an unemployed screenwriter who has fallen for another sexually confused screenwriter. It appears that much of the show will center around this relationship which, if you watch the first episode, confronts some very real issues (in a light-hearted way) in the gay community at large. Noah's three best friends are a somewhat compulsive professor who has just moved in with his boyfriend, a slut who's afraid to settle down, and a very entertaining queen who's trying to put the spice back in her his seven-year relationship. Although the acting in 'Noah's Arc' is bad at times (particularly on the part of the professor, who I think would ultimately be played better by T.C. Carson of Livin' Single fame), the overall story is pretty good. The great thing is that the characters on the show remind me soooo much of people that I spent hours laughing and hanging out with in college. And that, I think, will be the key to this show's success - allowing black gay men to connect to gay television characters in a way that, for many, simply hasn't been possible before. And if you don't care about that, then like all gay shows, there's plenty of skin.

Check it out when you get a chance. It's worth watching.