History Series / ItsASin

* TheBeard: Jill is this for Ritchie when visiting his parents around Christmas.

* {{Twink}}: Ritchie is all over this when he first hits the London gay scene, strutting into Heaven and various gay-pubs and kissing every boy in the room.

* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Homophobic Parents Have Standards]]: Roscoe's father might not approve of his son's sexuality, and might have been conspiring to have him sent to Nigeria to be 'cured' -- which would be an effective death sentence. But on going to Nigeria himself and seeing the sheer barbarism shown towards AIDS sufferers of both sexes, even he is horrified by it, asks for his son's forgiveness, and may be reconciling with him at the end of the series.

Richie Tozer (Olly Alexander) is a university student who moves to UsefulNotes/{{London}} from the Isle of Wight. Away from his family, he is given the opportunity to explore his sexuality openly in the London gay scene alongside his close group of friends. These include: the glamorous British-Nigerian Roscoe Babatunde (Omari Douglas), who experiments with drag after fleeing his religious family; the adorable Saville Row apprentice Colin Morris-Jones (Callum Scott Howells), his kind-hearted best friend and confidante Jill (Lydia West) and on-off lover Ash Mukherjee (Nathaniel Curtis).

* ShoutOut: Ritchie lands a role in ''Series/DoctorWho'', appearing in the fictitious serial "Regression of the Daleks".

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The AIDS die-in only has a couple dozen involved at most, queer and straight, in a city full of roughly 600,000 gay people. During the protest, they're heckled and threatened by the public - though a few younger girls vocally support them - and are dragged away under arrest by the police.

* TragicAIDSStory: A very passionate and charged one from Russell T. Davies who is credited as being one of the writers to have bought LGBT stories and characters to British TV in the 90s with ''Series/QueerAsFolk'', so naturally the tragic aspect is interwoven with moments of joy and liveliness.

''It's a Sin'' is a 2021 period drama from Creator/Channel4, written by Creator/RussellTDavies (''Series/{{Queer As Folk|UK}}'') about the lives of young gay men in TheEighties and TheNineties as the AIDS epidemic begins and ravages the gay community.

''It's a Sin'' is a 2021 period drama from Creator/Channel4, written by Creator/RussellTDavies (''Series/QueerAsFolk'') about the lives of young gay men in TheEighties and TheNineties as the AIDS epidemic begins and ravages the gay community.

* ADateWithRosiePalms:
** A rare dramatic example. [[spoiler:When Colin becomes mentally impaired by his disease, he starts masturbating in front of his friends and horrified mother during a hospital visit.]]
** Ritchie reconnects with his school-crush Martin one evening at the pub, and with a few beers in him, recounts how he used to have a wank most nights just thinking about him. Martin, whilst being a sweet, polite PrettyBoy, is also justifiably unsettled at such a graphically frank admittance.

Also stars Creator/StephenFry as Arthur Garrison, a fictional Tory MP and Creator/NeilPatrickHarris as Henry Coltrane, a tailor from Saville Row who opens Colin’s eyes. It was released on February 18, 2021 on Creator/HBOMax in the United States.

** Gregory, or "Gloria"; dies a year after he was brought home to Glasgow with his family.

* BoomerangBigot: The MP played by Stephen Fry, who sleeps with Roscoe but still denies that he is gay and mocks Rosie for his sexuality.

* NarrativeBackpedaling: Ash proudly tells his friends how he, in his job as a teacher, defied the orders of his school to purge the library of "gay propaganda" under Section 28. He then admits that actually he quietly did as he was told.