{"id":73600,"date":"2019-06-28T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/?p=73600"},"modified":"2023-06-03T18:43:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T22:43:21","slug":"celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Cucumber, Banana, Tofu This Pride Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cucumber,<\/em> Banana, Tofu<\/i> is a British television series made up of two drama shows and an online documentary. The series was created by Russell T Davies (Queer as Folk<\/em>) and was released in early 2015. When experienced together as they were originally shown, anyone can gain an authentic insight into modern LGBT life thanks to Davies, and they will most likely gain an unexpected passion for the characters and actors, too.<\/p>\n

Banana<\/em> is a lot to get into because each of its eight episodes tells a separate story about a certain aspect of the LGBT community and our lives. It even goes into the life of Dean (a character from Cucumber<\/em>) and his family, which remains quite a mystery if you’ve only seen Cucumber<\/i>. Each episode features characters that overlap with Cucumber<\/em>, and each one is a touching story of its own.<\/p>\n

Tofu<\/em> was a mini-documentary only available online, in which real people (including actors from the two shows) held real discussions about modern-day sex and sexuality. Graphic commentary on sexual stories certainly set the tone for what was to come in Cucumber<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Cucumber<\/em> is the main story. To call Cucumber<\/i> a very\u00a0<\/em>gay\u00a0show would be an understatement. Cucumber<\/em> is shockingly<\/strong> gay. In 2015, gay men were finally receiving some highly deserved acknowledgement on television, but certainly not enough. Russell recognised this and truly hit British television screens hard with this story.<\/p>\n

Every episode begins with a walk through the supermarket. In the first episode, we are introduced to both our main character, Henry Best, and also to what appears to be the theme of the entire series: sex. As Henry strolls through the aisles gazing at every young, fit boy he passes, he imagines the stages of a male erection in the form of four things. Stage 1: Tofu; Stage 2: A peeled banana; Stage 3: A fully formed banana; Stage 4: Cucumber. If you hadn\u2019t already guessed the innuendo behind the title, it is made vividly clear to you in the first scene.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

This year I rewatched Cucumber<\/i> in its entirety for the first time since its release in 2015, and it occurred to me just how much this short series stays with you over time. If you intend to watch Cucumber,\u00a0<\/em>be warned: it is an intense story. It digs into topics that nobody but Russell knew how to explore in the public eye. It is attractive and yet becomes increasingly disturbing. Whoever you are and whatever your preference may be, watch this show; something found within it is going to move you. That being said, be ready for sex and graphic sexual conversations because there\u2019s a hell of a lot of it.<\/p>\n

Cucumber<\/em>‘s main character, Henry Best, is a gay man living in Manchester with his partner of nine years, Lance Sullivan. Everything appears quite perfect. They go out together with friends, they have conversations, they make each other laugh, they have chemistry, but at the end of the night they go back home, say goodnight, and head their separate ways. Henry heads upstairs to his laptop and Lance is left masturbating to old recordings of Hollyoaks<\/i>. What went wrong? The answer to that question is also Henry\u2019s biggest kept secret, and the underlying issue in their entire relationship: Henry doesn\u2019t have sex.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. Henry\u2014the man who wanders the supermarket fantasizing about having sex with every man he sees, the man who can turn on a room of experienced gay bachelors with an incredibly imaginative story about Ryan Reynolds and his cock\u2014this man doesn\u2019t have sex, and he doesn\u2019t appear to understand why.<\/p>\n

In one night, Henry and Lance\u2019s entire relationship completely breaks down. While out on Canal Street, Henry tells Lance he\u2019s up for a threesome with some young desirable man, expecting to find nothing of the kind. However, when Lance decides to prove his point and bring home a man who is blatantly off his face and up for anything, Henry panics and has them both arrested. It\u2019s a completely disastrous evening in which Henry\u2019s life falls apart forever. He loses his partner, has a naked man dragged out of his home by the police, and at the same time is faced with endless phone calls from a man who has plagiarised Henry\u2019s college paper (and commits suicide as a result). This issue comes to light after Henry spends his time too distracted to pay attention to it. And it all comes crashing down on this one abomination of a date night.<\/p>\n

Following this, Henry moves in with Dean, a friendly young gay guy from his workplace. Dean lives with Freddie Baxter. You\u2019ve never seen a man as attractive as Freddie, and Henry is completely obsessed. Henry follows young gay men and has his obsessions, but now it’s reached a new level because he lives with Freddie. Freddie knows how dreamy he is; he is incredibly vain and supposedly \u2018doesn\u2019t give a fuck\u2019 about anything, especially the 46-year-old virgin from work who stares at him in terrified silence when he walks by.<\/p>\n

\"Freddie<\/p>\n

A lot happens in this house. Henry lusts after Freddie and watches both him and Dean as they live the ideal young single gay life in Manchester, having sex with a never ending supply of men and women, and having the confidence to go out and spend their time partying with friends. I think to Henry, they represent the freedom he doesn\u2019t feel he has. Doesn\u2019t it just make you angry that there\u2019s a whole world out there of people having sex and people who have the confidence to go out and get what they want when they want it, and somehow you have been shut off from this life completely? You didn\u2019t choose to live this way and certainly feel entitled to that life. Henry feels entitled, and he may even appear selfish because of it. But he becomes gradually less self-absorbed as each level of his emotions are revealed to us. Following his split from Lance, Henry\u2019s emotional barriers come collapsing down a little bit more each episode until, in the end, they\u2019re gone.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Lance meets a man at work named Daniel. He\u2019s a diver (of course he is) and he has the body to seduce any woman, or man, he wants. Now, he doesn\u2019t seem to know it, or want to admit it, but Daniel wants Lance. Daniel, in my opinion, is a gay man\u2014a gay man who must have been raised around hatred towards gay men, and has become completely terrified of who he is. We all show fear in different ways. Some of us would rather show anger than fear, and some men will go to great lengths to appear manly, not having to express any emotions their entire lives. This is Daniel, and he scared me from the moment I saw him. Daniel has sense of danger surrounding him. All that he says is just not quite right, and Lance notices this, too\u2014a number of times. But after nine years of not having sex, he\u2019s drawn in to Daniel, and genuinely believes this man will finally be the exciting romantic night he\u2019s been waiting for, which leads him into a whole world of horror.<\/p>\n

\"Cyril<\/p>\n

Episode 6 will make you cry and make you angry. It is an episode of constant emotion. In the very first scene, we learn that Lance is going to die. We are met with Lance walking through the supermarket instead of Henry, and the words \u2018Lance Edward Sullivan 1966\u20132015\u2019 glare at us from the screen. We are taken on a heartbreaking journey through Lance’s life during this episode\u2014all his experiences as a gay man, rejection by his family, his lovers, his losses\u2014all leading up to the moment that he didn\u2019t trust his instincts and decided to go home with Daniel.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Lance is genuinely consumed by lust, or perhaps he just wants to confront Henry through his actions. Either way, Lance is determined to go out with Daniel, and he does. They venture to Canal Street, where a \u00a0\u2018straight\u2019 Daniel flirts with men, is groped by strangers, and completely makes himself at home. Lance believes that, after what feels like a lifetime of mixed messages and confusing nights between the two, this could finally be the night.<\/p>\n

At this point, Lance wanders through Canal Street in thought about what the night could bring, and he encounters what is revealed to be the ghost of a woman who died years ago\u2014a woman who we know ourselves from Russell T Davies\u2019s series Queer as Folk<\/i>. This woman\u2019s name is Hazel Tyler, and her appearance opens up the possibility that Cucumber<\/i> could exist in the same universe as Queer as Folk.<\/i> Hazel roams the streets of Manchester, acting as a guardian angel towards Lance, but unfortunately Lance doesn\u2019t listen.<\/p>\n

In a brutal scene, one that you certainly won\u2019t forget, Daniel eventually wants Lance to touch him; he wants him to undress, he wants to do everything that Lance had planned for all this time, but as it happens, you see a switch flip in his mind and he pushes him away. At this point the fear within Daniel lets itself be known in the form of rage and violence, shouting out homophobic slurs, throwing around threats, and pacing back and forth. Eventually, in the most disturbing moment, Daniel takes a golf club and strikes Lance over the head, exclaiming, \u2018Look what you\u2019ve made me do,\u2019 before cowering in the corner of the room in tears. This scene feels like the longest one you\u2019ve ever seen, as the images switch between loving moments in Lance\u2019s life and Lance on the couch with blood pouring from his head. It\u2019s a beautiful and completely disturbing death, and it was captured so carefully and excellently.<\/p>\n

\"Freddie<\/p>\n

In the final two episodes, Henry goes through a grieving process. He seems to cry any time he is left alone, but does not want to cry around others. We have all been at a stage where we can relate to this. The flat that Henry, Freddie, and Dean occupy is rampaged and the illegitimate owner throws out the entire block, after which Henry develops a collective of LGBT companions (including Freddie) and invites them all to live with him in his house rent-free. Who would say no to that? It is arguable that this drastic life change for Henry was a serious coping mechanism, and that\u2019s probably right, but I can\u2019t be sure where Henry would have ended up without it.<\/p>\n

Of course, the issue is that it\u2019s unrealistic to live the party life every day. One by one they leave, and Henry sees them leaving, and sees himself one step closer to being alone each time. The last to leave is Freddie, who leaves and doesn\u2019t return; in fact, he disappears. I didn\u2019t want this at all. Even considering it was probably best for Henry, for my own selfish reasons I wanted Freddie to stay and have a friendship with Henry, but that\u2019s not the life meant for either of them.<\/p>\n

In our final scene, we jump six years into the future to the next time that Henry sees Freddie, when he meets him on the street. I swear this is a moment where you find those tears of joy you\u2019ve been searching for during the episode. They catch up over coffee, and in a way so much has changed in both their lives, but it\u2019s just the same between them as it has always been. It\u2019s heartwarming, and in his final on-screen moments Henry admits something, both to us and to Freddie: that he has never just taken some time out to think about and come to terms with really being gay.<\/p>\n

\"Henry,<\/p>\n

As I mentioned earlier, Cucumber<\/i> was extraordinary for many reasons, a huge reason being that it brought up topics that were unseen on television, especially in relation to gay men. It takes an in-depth look at a teacher\/student sexual relationship and the emotional manipulation behind it. It shows us the aftermath of a suicide related to criminal behaviour. It looks into relationships that involve a third sexual partner in various different circumstances, and the extreme measures taken to hide the shame behind that fact. We get a firsthand look into the lives of young straight boys making money on the Internet from men who get off on watching them, and we even get to know a wonderful woman who has undergone vaginal rejuvenation surgery and just wants to feel beautiful and wanted again.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, Cucumber<\/i> tells us the untold story of a man who has grown up afraid of being gay, so much so that he can\u2019t even have sex with the man who he has loved for nine years of his life. Men in the real world share this fear and deserve to have their story told. Everyone deserves to have their story told, and there are so many unique stories in our community that need to be shared. That\u2019s part of what Pride month is about to me, and that\u2019s why I wanted to remind the world this Pride month about Cucumber, Banana, Tofu<\/em> and the story of Henry Best. I urge you to go watch the whole thing. I guarantee that if you do, you won\u2019t feel as alone once you\u2019re finished. I certainly didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cucumber, Banana, Tofu is a British television series made up of two drama shows and an online documentary. The series was created by Russell T Davies (Queer as Folk) and was released in early 2015. When experienced together as they were originally shown, anyone can gain an authentic insight into modern LGBT life thanks to […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":73680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1380,1548,1312],"yoast_head":"\nCelebrating Cucumber, Banana, Tofu This Pride Month | TV Obsessive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Russell T Davies returned in 2015 with the hard-hitting queer drama Cucumber, Banana, Tofu. This Pride month, Abbie Sears looks into it.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Celebrating Cucumber, Banana, Tofu This Pride Month\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Russell T Davies returned in 2015 with the hard-hitting queer drama Cucumber, Banana, Tofu. This Pride month, Abbie Sears looks into it.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TV Obsessive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tvobsessive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-28T22:00:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-03T22:43:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BFB1C6A0-41C5-4FD8-B390-DCB9781DFF24.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1536\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"698\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Abbie Sears\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Russell T Davies returned in 2015 with the hard-hitting queer drama Cucumber, Banana, Tofu. This Pride month, Abbie Sears looks into it.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BFB1C6A0-41C5-4FD8-B390-DCB9781DFF24.jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@TVObsessive_\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@TVObsessive_\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Abbie Sears\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"11 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Abbie Sears\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#\/schema\/person\/6ca48ca6659d1b663d357bfe099f6017\"},\"headline\":\"Celebrating Cucumber, Banana, Tofu This Pride Month\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-28T22:00:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-03T22:43:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/\"},\"wordCount\":2277,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BFB1C6A0-41C5-4FD8-B390-DCB9781DFF24.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"LGBTQIA+\",\"Channel 4\",\"Pride\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Series\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/\",\"name\":\"Celebrating Cucumber, Banana, Tofu This Pride Month | TV Obsessive\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BFB1C6A0-41C5-4FD8-B390-DCB9781DFF24.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-28T22:00:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-06-03T22:43:21+00:00\",\"description\":\"Russell T Davies returned in 2015 with the hard-hitting queer drama Cucumber, Banana, Tofu. This Pride month, Abbie Sears looks into it.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BFB1C6A0-41C5-4FD8-B390-DCB9781DFF24.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BFB1C6A0-41C5-4FD8-B390-DCB9781DFF24.jpeg\",\"width\":1536,\"height\":698,\"caption\":\"Main Cast of Channel 4\u2019s Cucumber\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Celebrating Cucumber, Banana, Tofu This Pride Month\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/\",\"name\":\"TV Obsessive\",\"description\":\"Nothing is too niche\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"TV Obsessive\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/TVOBSsquare-white.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/TVOBSsquare-white.png\",\"width\":569,\"height\":569,\"caption\":\"TV Obsessive\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tvobsessive\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TVObsessive_\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#\/schema\/person\/6ca48ca6659d1b663d357bfe099f6017\",\"name\":\"Abbie Sears\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4d9f3e7fc984b28ac8e71047437778ae?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4d9f3e7fc984b28ac8e71047437778ae?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"caption\":\"Abbie Sears\"},\"description\":\"Abbie is an author for 25YL from the United Kingdom. She has a passion for meditation and travel. She loves concerts, drumming, playing indie games and binge watching shows.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/author\/abbiesears4\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Celebrating Cucumber, Banana, Tofu This Pride Month | TV Obsessive","description":"Russell T Davies returned in 2015 with the hard-hitting queer drama Cucumber, Banana, Tofu. This Pride month, Abbie Sears looks into it.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Celebrating Cucumber, Banana, Tofu This Pride Month","og_description":"Russell T Davies returned in 2015 with the hard-hitting queer drama Cucumber, Banana, Tofu. This Pride month, Abbie Sears looks into it.","og_url":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/","og_site_name":"TV Obsessive","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tvobsessive","article_published_time":"2019-06-28T22:00:29+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-06-03T22:43:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1536,"height":698,"url":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BFB1C6A0-41C5-4FD8-B390-DCB9781DFF24.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Abbie Sears","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_description":"Russell T Davies returned in 2015 with the hard-hitting queer drama Cucumber, Banana, Tofu. This Pride month, Abbie Sears looks into it.","twitter_image":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BFB1C6A0-41C5-4FD8-B390-DCB9781DFF24.jpeg","twitter_creator":"@TVObsessive_","twitter_site":"@TVObsessive_","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Abbie Sears","Est. reading time":"11 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/"},"author":{"name":"Abbie Sears","@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#\/schema\/person\/6ca48ca6659d1b663d357bfe099f6017"},"headline":"Celebrating Cucumber, Banana, Tofu This Pride Month","datePublished":"2019-06-28T22:00:29+00:00","dateModified":"2023-06-03T22:43:21+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/"},"wordCount":2277,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BFB1C6A0-41C5-4FD8-B390-DCB9781DFF24.jpeg","keywords":["LGBTQIA+","Channel 4","Pride"],"articleSection":["Series"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/","url":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/","name":"Celebrating Cucumber, Banana, Tofu This Pride Month | TV Obsessive","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BFB1C6A0-41C5-4FD8-B390-DCB9781DFF24.jpeg","datePublished":"2019-06-28T22:00:29+00:00","dateModified":"2023-06-03T22:43:21+00:00","description":"Russell T Davies returned in 2015 with the hard-hitting queer drama Cucumber, Banana, Tofu. This Pride month, Abbie Sears looks into it.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BFB1C6A0-41C5-4FD8-B390-DCB9781DFF24.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BFB1C6A0-41C5-4FD8-B390-DCB9781DFF24.jpeg","width":1536,"height":698,"caption":"Main Cast of Channel 4\u2019s Cucumber"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2019\/06\/28\/celebrating-cucumber-banana-tofu-this-pride-month\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Celebrating Cucumber, Banana, Tofu This Pride Month"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/","name":"TV Obsessive","description":"Nothing is too niche","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#organization","name":"TV Obsessive","url":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/TVOBSsquare-white.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/TVOBSsquare-white.png","width":569,"height":569,"caption":"TV Obsessive"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tvobsessive","https:\/\/twitter.com\/TVObsessive_"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#\/schema\/person\/6ca48ca6659d1b663d357bfe099f6017","name":"Abbie Sears","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4d9f3e7fc984b28ac8e71047437778ae?s=96&d=mm&r=r","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4d9f3e7fc984b28ac8e71047437778ae?s=96&d=mm&r=r","caption":"Abbie Sears"},"description":"Abbie is an author for 25YL from the United Kingdom. She has a passion for meditation and travel. She loves concerts, drumming, playing indie games and binge watching shows.","url":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/author\/abbiesears4\/"}]}},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282199,"href":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73600\/revisions\/282199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}