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Rita Montgomery is the middle aged mother of Hunter Novotny-Bruckner in the Showtime drama series Queer as Folk. She is a mild antagonist character to Hunter, Michael Novotny and Ben Bruckner in pursue of Hunter's custody for her selfish reasons.
Background[]
She is introduced in season three and appears to be looking for Hunter. While Rita claims to have lost Hunter to hard times, Hunter reveals that his mother was abusive and forced him to "work" on the streets at a young age to "pull his weight". Hunter was eventually taken from her and put into the foster care system. When she attempted to locate him, he had ran away. She find him in the third season of the series.
Throughout the Series[]
Season 3[]
Towards the end of the third season, Rita, Hunter's mother, appears. She claims that she had given him up for adoption due to a tumultuous marriage and for fear that she wouldn't have been able to raise her son on her low income, but would now be capable to do so. Hunter reacts badly when told that his mother has visited Ben and Michael. When asked for the reason for his reaction, he accuses his mother of having forced him to commit acts of prostitution from an early age. She becomes irate with Michael and Ben when they refuse to give Hunter's location. She gets the police involved and Michael makes a decision to flee with Hunter. They hire Melanie as their lawyer and they have the hearing.
She does win custody initially, but the judge hears her callous and homophobic remarks regarding Hunter's HIV status "You dirty little f----- ... Are you trying to give it to me?!", and awards custody to Ben and Michael ultimately seeing a mistake in judgement if Hunter to be put in her care.
Quotes[]
- "You dirty little f----- ... Are you trying to give it to me?!"
Trivia[]
- She is portrayed by Marnie McPhail.
- It is unknown what happened to her once she lost the custody battle for Hunter.