Lindsay Peterson

Lindsay Peterson is a fictional character from Showtime's Queer As Folk (US TV Series) television show. She is played by Thea Gill and appeared from Season 1 through the series end of Season 5.

((spoilers))

Lindsay is one of the main characters and is the domestic partner of '''Melanie Marcus'''. Lindsay is also the natural mother of '''Gus Peterson''', a son by way of artifical insemination from donor and longtime friend '''Brian Kinney''', and the adoptive mother of '''Jenny Rececca Novotny''', Melanie's natural child by way of artificial insemination from donor and mutual friend '''Michael Novotny'''.

Gus' parentage has been a source of contention between Lindsay, Melanie and Brian. While Brian intially gives up his parental rights over Gus, he later tries to become a more prominent father figure in Gus' life, much to the chagrin of Melanie. It is later revealed that Lindsay's staunch defense of Brian is due to the fact that the two of them dated while in college. Lindsay is also the one and only woman that Brian has had sexual relations with.

Lindsay and Melanie act through most of the series as the stable lesbian couple. Lindsay, in particular, helps Justin Taylor (Brian's lovelorned lover) in his pursuit of a career in art and has taken him into her care from time to time.

Lindsay became an art curator at a gallery when she returned to work a year after giving birth to Gus. There she meets fellow artist Sam, with whom Lindsay has an affair with during the fourth season. This causes a huge riff between Melanie that causes them to separate and fight throughout most of seasons 4 and 5.

At the end of the series, a bomb explosion that was targeting a gay and lesbian convention that took the life of a fellow lesbian friend, Lindsay and Melanie decide to reconcile. Lindsay and Melanie's last appearance on the show reveals that they have decided to move to Toronto, Canada to avoid further government and personal persecution for being a homosexual couple.