Some Characters In Fellow Travelers Are Based On Real People – Here's What You Need To Know

Matt Bomer as Hawkins Fuller and Jonathan Bailey as Tim LaughlinPolitical thriller and romance drama Fellow Travelers is now streaming in the UK on Paramount+.The series is based on a 2007 novel by Thomas Mallon, and stars Matt Bomer, Jonathan Bailey and Jelani Alladin as leads Hawkins Fuller, Tim Laughlin and Marcus Hooks.Against a rapidly evolving backdrop of political upheaval and civil unrest, we follow a gay couple across four decades of their lives, while also examining the difficulties queer people living in America in the last century faced.According to writer and creator, Ron Nyswaner, the series was “meticulously researched” and features a lot of fascinating historical detail.“That’s something I think is really important”, Nyswaner told HuffPost UK last week. “If it’s being presented as a part of history... we weren’t guessing, it was meticulously researched.”You may have caught yourself watching the series and wondering, like me, which characters are based on real people, an