A kid brought in a BB gun and shot another kid. He was expelled. And someone got expelled for blowing up mailboxes.
A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.
By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.
I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.
I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.
I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.
I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.
I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
I know that I'm capable as an actor.
I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
I never hesitated once. I still aspire to a theater career. The amount of celebrity that I have now seems like a fluke to me.
I started performing when I was a kid. I don't remember myself not being an actor.
I think the gay community is split: They either love the show or love to hate it.
I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.
I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
I wasn't dating anyone. I was hyper-focused on acting. So I didn't bring a guy to the prom. I was the lone gay person as far as I knew.
I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.
I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
I'm definitely a Yankee, a New Englander at heart. Both my parents are Southerners, so they always wanted to go back to the South.
I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.
It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.
It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.
It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
The stuff I get is not that severe like, "I'm going to kill myself." I do get a sense that seeing Justin can be a great comfort to a lot of people. They feel that they can stand up for what they feel and who they love.
The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.
When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
He was cast as a young Mozart in the 2006 Berkshire Theatre Festival production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus.
He said that if Queer as Folk had gone for a sixth season, that he would not have been part of it.
He is dating journalist Simon Dumenco.
He has a tattoo of a scorpion on his shoulder because his star sign is Scorpio.
He lives in New York City when not on location.
He is 5' 8" (1.73 m) in height.
He says that he wanted to be an actor after his parents couldn't find a babysitter and had to take him to a production of Peter Pan.
His only brother and sibling is a bank manager.
He is a graduate of Pace Academy in Atlanta, Georgia.
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