Stuart Alan Jones is a fictional character from the Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

 drama series Queer as Folk

Queer as Folk (UK TV series)

Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Both Queer as Folk and Queer as Folk 2 were written by Russell T Davies...

, portrayed by Aidan Gillen

Aidan Gillen

Aidan Gillen is an Irish stage and screen actor and television presenter. He is known in Ireland for his role in Love/Hate, in the UK for his role in Queer as Folk and in the US for his role in HBO's television series The Wire in which he plays Tommy Carcetti and for his role in Game of Thrones as...

. He worked in an advertising company in Manchester

Manchester

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 and spent lots of time in pubs or the night club, Babylon, in Canal Street

Canal Street (Manchester)

Canal Street, the centre of the Manchester Gay Village, is a street in Manchester city centre in North West England. The pedestrianised street, which runs along the west side of the Rochdale Canal, is lined with gay bars and restaurants...

 after work. Enthusiastic at sex and once said he wants to "die of shagging." Although he is not a gay activist, he always acts aggressively toward homophobes.

Stuart ranked at #48 in the AfterElton.com's 2010 poll, Top 50 Gay Characters of All Time. Gillen was nominated for Best Actor at the 1999 BAFTA TV Award for the role.

Background

Stuart comes from an Irish middle-class family. He moved to Manchester with his family when he was a teenager.

Relationships

Stuart pursues one-night stands and didn't show any apparent interest in finding a regular partner throughout the show.

Vince Tyler

Stuart and Vince have been good friends since they were 14, and Vince seems to be the only friend he trusts. When they helped clean up the porno stash of Vince's friend, Phil, Stuart planned to give Vince a set of spare keys of his flat and hoped Vince would do the same for him if anything happened.