Jennifer Taylor (Queer As Folk)

Infobox character | name = Jennifer Taylor


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real_name = Jennifer Taylor
portrayer = Sherry Miller
creator = Ron Cowen
Daniel Lipman
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gender = Female
first = Season 1, Episode 2
last = Season 5, Episode 13
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occupation = Real-estate Agent
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significantother = Craig Taylor (ex-husband)
Tucker (boyfriend)
children = Justin Taylor (son)
Molly (daughter)
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Jennifer Taylor is a supporting character on the American television series "Queer As Folk". She is Justin's mother.

In the first season, she suspects that her son is gay after she sees some drawings and a man's jockstrap lying around. When she confronts him about it, he runs away the first time, not knowing what to do. She takes him to see a therapist thinking that he is just confused, that he doesn't know what he wants yet. At first, she doesn't tell her husband that her son is gay. She and Justin go to an art exhibit so that they can mend their relationship. Instead, he takes this chance to have a quickie in the men's bathroom, much to her dismay and sadness. She is invited to Justin's first art exhibit where she sees some erotic art pieces by Justin. When she sees Brian holding Justin in a suggestive way and kissing him, she realizes that the naked, sleeping man is the guy who has been sleeping with her son. She tells Craig that their son is gay after she sees that an older man is the one who seduced him and that it is inappropriate. During the rest of the season, she comes to term with her son's homosexuality, with the help of Debbie Novotny. Also she divorces Craig.

At the beginning of the second season, she forbids Brian to see Justin after the attack because she thinks that he is indirectly responsible for her son's attack. After she is not able to control or touch Justin, she asks Brian to take him in since he is the only one that Justin trusts. She becomes involved in PFLAG and is more involved in Justin's life. By the middle of the season, she is a real-estate agent and has come to accept Brian more and turns to him for extra support when trying to get something through to her son, like finding friends his own age.

She helps Ted and Emmett find a house so that they can live together. She lists Brian's loft for sale, several times. She also helps him to find a building for his new headquarters for Kinnetik, an abandoned bath house. By the last season, she finally accepts Brian and would be proud to have him as a son-in-law. She has a much younger boyfriend, "Tucker", of whom Justin does not approve. In her final appearance in the series, she visits Justin in his apartment and "dances" with him; this is a symbolic gesture of her acceptance of him and of his relations with other men.