Justin Taylor

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Justin Taylor is a fictional character on the American television series Queer as Folk, played by Randy Harrison. He is the on-and-off romantic partner of Brian Kinney, played by Gale Harold.

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In the pilot episode, Brian meets Justin, a virgin, outside Babylon, a club, and takes him home and has sex with him. Justin is responsible for naming Gus, Brian and Lindsay's biological son. After their encounter, Justin falls in love with Brian and eventually gets Brian to have sex with him again, breaking Brian's own rule. During the first season, Justin's parents struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality, his father kicking him out of the house (He would remain somewhat estranged from his father for the rest of the series.) and his mother more tolerant, but still having trouble understanding it.

Justin is accepted to Dartmouth College but opts to go to the Pittsburgh Institute of Fine Arts to pursue his dreams. After his prom, he is bashed by a fellow student, resulting in a month-long coma and limited use of his hand, restricting his ability to draw. Thanks to a computer Brian gets, Justin continues his art at PIFA and with Brian's friend Michael Novotny, creates a gay superhero comic called Rage, with stories often based on their own lives.

At the end of the second season, Justin starts a relationship with Ethan, a fellow student and talented violinist, when he feels Brian isn't giving him the love and attention he wants. After Ethan cheats on him with a fan during the third season, Justin convinces Brian to take him back. He drops out of college after a disagreement with the head of the internship program. At the end of the fourth season, Brian (who has beaten testicular cancer) asks Justin to move back in.

During the fifth and final season, Brian and Justin's relationship becomes more unstable. Justin works on a movie version of "Rage" but the project is cancelled. When Justin returns from Los Angeles and moves back in with Brian, he expects them to settle down, which Brian doesn't want. He leaves Brian but after an bomb explosion at Babylon, Brian admits his love for Justin, asking him to marry him. They plan to get married but Brian tells Justin that he should go to New York City, to pursue his art career. Before leaving, Brian and Justin spend one final night together, when Brian tells Justin that he's kept the rings, and Justin reassures Brian that they will see each other all the time.

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Queer as Folk (US)
Production:	Episode List \| Season 1 \| Season 2 \| Season 3 \| Season 4 \| Season 5
Main characters:	Brian \| Michael \| Justin \| Emmett \| Ted \| Lindsay \| Melanie \| Debbie \| Vic \| Ben
Secondary characters:	David \| Blake \| Ethan \| Chief Stockwell \| Hunter \| Jennifer Taylor \| Daphne \| Horvath \| Drew Boyd
Places & locations:	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania