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We meet Michael, Emmett, Ted and Brian in Babylon for the first time. As the group prepare to leave, Brian spots a young lad outside and decides not to give his friends a ride home but makes a move on the lad. A nervous Justin accompanies Brian back to his apartment, where Brian finds out Justin's real age, but they are interrupted when they get a phone call from the hospital.moreless
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  • "Are you coming or going? Or coming and then going? Or coming and staying?"

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    By katieearle27, May 07, 2011 Report Abuse
    Cue the thumpa thumpa music. We are introduced to Babylon for the first of many nights out there. The flashing lights, the loud dance music, the barrage of attractive, shirtless men, all set the tone of the daring series within the first few minutes. We are invited into Michael's life as he introduces us to the rest of the gang. The moment we see blonde haired, 17 year old Justin Taylor step off the curb in his plaid shirt and blue jeans, there is no turning back for him. He is diving face first into the world of Liberty Avenue. For Brian Kinney having just become a father, he is faced with new responsibilities, challenging his carfree, party lifestyle. This episode is an outstanding beginning to the groundbreaking series, drawing us into each of their exciting lives.moreless

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  • Seventeen year old Justin Taylor step head first into Pittsburgh's gay night life where meets Brian Kinney. And his life is changed forever.

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    By IKnowyour, Jun 24, 2010 Report Abuse
    The best opening episode ever. It throws you right in to this world and you know immediatly that this is a show like no other you've seen before. You either love it or hate it. You see right away the quiet(and abit naive)bravey of Justin. The complicated relationship between Brian and his best friend Michael. And you are introduced the Brian Kinney, brash, cocky, unapologetic, beautiful, and a basically a trainwreck. All these things happen in one night. The graphic sex scences are just that graphic. And if you're offended by nudity the maybe this isn't the show for you.moreless

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  • This is the first time we meet Emmett, Brian, Justin, Ted, Michael, Mel and Lindsay. Brian becomes a dad when the lesbian couple he donated his sperm to has their baby. Mike gets jealous when Brian brings Justin home for a night.moreless

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    By breezy2281, Jun 24, 2010 Report Abuse
    This is the first time we meet all our favorites in this pivotal pilot episode. Emmett is one of my favorites, i love his flamer outgoing attitude and charm. We didn't see much of Ted in this episode. Emmett talks Mike into bringing home a guy that was cruising him at Babylon, but they get interrupted when Brian calls for Mike to accompany him to the hospital to see his new baby. Brian brings Justin, the seventeen year old he met to the hospital with him, who turns out to be the deciding factor in what Mel and Linze name their baby boy, Gus. Brian also found out the night before that Gus isn't the only baby he had and that Justin was a virgin. Justin is unsure if Brian remembers all the things he said to him while he was taking his virginity, or if he was just being used. Mike wound up driving Brian's jeep home the night before because Brian was on drugs, and the jeep winds up getting vandalized by some twelve year old bigots. With a very demeaning word that bigots use to refer to gay men spray painted in hot pink on the side of Brian's jeep, he and Mike drive Justin to school. Justin doesn't know if he will see Brian again. We see it right off the bat that Mike might be jealous that with Justin around Brian might not have as much time for him. However, at this point we think it is just because Mike doesn't think it is right to see Brian with such a young boy. Also it was a good move on the writer's part to throw a lesbian couple in there right in the beginning episode, they covered their bases. Speaking as one myself i think i can say that if their goal was to expand their audience of the show to lesbians as well (and heterosexuals)then it worked. Interesting how they had the couple having a child right off the bat though. I guess we can assume the two women had a stable, loving relationship prior to this episode.moreless

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  • "No Limits" was the Showtime motto and they really meant it. With an ensamble cast and a unprecedented degree of explict frankness and soap opera story telling about drugs, sexuality, prejudice, and relationships.moreless

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    By johndoe70, Apr 26, 2009 Report Abuse
    Queer As Folk' was a groundbreaking show, even for the less restrictive world of American cable tv. This was probably the first time that a big budget series focused on, mostly, young gay men without being afraid to be explicit, campy and outloud. Yet, the show was not perfect and its flaws need to be pointed out. At its core, the show was basically a upscale, high production values, R-rated gay soap opera. Its explict sexual images, often with casual and public sex, the involemnt of a 17 year old 'minor' porn and the recreational drug use caused no small amount of controversy -- including within the gay community itself. The series satirized "politically correct" media images of gay people, Andrew Sullivan, the "Pink Pistols" and various other hot button issues within the LGBT community.

    The series could have been more diverse. All of the principle characters were white, with ethnic diversity being limited to Italian and Jewish Americans. Although that is a larger social problem with much of America media.

    All in all, it was a groundreaking and entertaining television series.moreless

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  • Aqui nos presentan los hombres que nos deleitarán por 5 temporadas.

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    By chupisfunky, May 29, 2008 Report Abuse
    Este episodio es muy bueno, deja ver que la serie promete mucho, y nos abre la puerta para que enfrentar la tematrica gay en una forma clara y directa. Los 4 personajes son muy interesantes y todos bien distintos entre si, claro, permitiendo que haya una quimica entre todos. Brian es el Don Juan y sus demas amigos estn siempre detras de el. Justin es un tipo algo tonto y tmido, pero estoy seguro que su personaje desarrollara muchos intelectos a medida que pasen los capitulos. Sus amigas lesbianas son muy interesantes, pero no estoy seguro si una es bisexual o gaymoreless

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    • The word FAGGOT is on the passenger's side of the jeep but Brian looks back at the gawking people over his left shoulder (and the driver's side). People on that side of the jeep would not see the word. Edit
    • Brian wears a white jockstrap by 2(x)ist and black button fly jeans, when stripping for the first time in front of Justin. Edit
    • Brian lost his virginity at 14, to his gym coach in the locker room. Edit

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    • Sharon Gless (Debbie) does not appear in this episode. She made her first appearance in the next episode, which originally aired as a 90-minute episode with this episode. Edit
    • International Air Dates: Germany: Monday January 09, 2006 Edit
    • In the Queer as Folk UK version, during the first anal intercourse scene, Stuart (US: Brian) relaxes Nathan (US: Justin) by telling him about the footballers entering the field each time he goes in deeper. The US version does not have a similar scene; instead Justin asks Brian if it always hurts. Brian says it'll hurt a little bit but that's part of sex, and asks him to relax. Edit

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    • (Justin reaches orgasm while Brian is on the phone with Melanie.) Brian: Jesus Christ! I told you not to! Justin: I tried! I'm sorry. I tried! Brian: All over my new duvet! Justin: I tried. Brian: (wiping the bed) Thank you very much. Justin: It'll wash out, won't it? I mean, you should see my sheets at home. Edit
    • Brian: Coming in? Justin: Huh? Oh, yeah. Brian: Shut the door. (Justin hesitates, then shuts the door.) Justin: This is a... really nice place. Edit
    • Emmett: Don't look now but somebody's wat-ching. Michael: Oh, him. He's been cruising me all night. Emmett: Hmm... playing hard to get. I love that in a man. Michael: Not playing, just not interested. Emmett: Check out that bubble butt. And that basket? Enough in there for the big bad wolf. Edit

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    • On the hospital roof, Brian gets up on the ledge. Brian: I could end it all now right now. Michael: Oh, that would be dramatic like ER. Birth and death in the same episode. Now get down! This is an allusion to the TV series ER, in which sometimes birth and death happens in the Emergency Room in the same episode. Edit
    • Porn Title - Schindler's Fist Parodies the 1993 Holocaust drama Schindler's List starring Liam Neeson and directed by Steven Spielberg. Edit
    • Brian: Kids grrrrreat! Grrrrreat! is the catchphrase of Tony the Tiger, mascot for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes cereal. Edit

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