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• IT'S "ABSOLUTELY" TIME LAW & ORR: SVU INTRODUCED A NEW GAY CHARACTER—SO WHERE ARE THEY?
• "LAW & ORR: SPECIAL VICTIMS UN" OFFICIALLY GAS A GAY {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY MICHAEL JENSENOCTOBER 19, 2009/1:48 PMBY MICHAEL JENSENOCTOBER 19, 2009 / 1:48 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"\"LAW & ORR: SPECIAL VICTIMS UN\" OFFICIALLY GAS A GAY CHARACTER","DATEPUBLISHED":"2009-10-19T17:48:11.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2009-10-19T17:48:11.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"MICHAEL JENSEN","KEYWORDS":"THE BACKLOT","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}***SPOILER WARNG!*** {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STOP READG IF YOU DON'T WANT TO LEARN THE INTY OF THE GAY CHARACTER ON NBC'S LAW AND ORR: SPECIAL VICTIM'S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WEDNDAY NIGHT'S EPISO OF LAW & ORR: SVU TLED "HARDWIRED" AND FEATURG ROSIE PEREZ IS SURE TO BE NTROVERSIAL GIVEN ALS WH PEDOPHIL WHO CLAIM THEIR TERT CHILDREN IS AN ORIENTATN LIKE HETEROSEXUALY, BISEXUALY, AND {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT GAY VIEWERS WILL BE PECIALLY TERTED AS THE EPISO ALSO FALLY NFIRMS WHAT MANY FANS OF THE SHOW HAVE LONG SPECTED — THAT SPECIAL AGENT GEE HUANG, M.D. PLAYED BY B.D. WONG IS FACT A GAY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE RMATN IS REVEALED WHEN HUANG BE UPSET THAT A CHILD MOLTER IS TRYG TO ARGUE THAT BEG A PEDOPHILE IS NO DIFFERENT THAN BEG GAY OR STRAIGHT AND THAT CRIMALIZG PEDOPHILIA IS AK TO DOMONIZG GAYS AND LBIANS. THIS PROMPTS HUANG TO SAY "SULTS HIS HUMANY AS A GAY MAN."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MANY VIEWERS HAVE LONG SPECTED THAT HUANG IS GAY ( FACT NAMG HIM AS THE 22ND BT GAY CHARACTER ON TELEVISN), BUT A PUBLICIST FOR THE SHOW NFIRMED THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE SHOW HAS NFIRMED HUANG'S SEXUALY OR REFERENCED ON THE SHOW. WHILE THE NEWS ISN'T EXACTLLY A SURPRISE FOR MANY OF , 'S STILL NICE TO HAVE NFIRMED AND SUCH A POSIVE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WE'LL HAVE MORE ON THE EPISO TOMORROW CLUDG A SHORT TERVIEW WH WONG. WHILE DISCSG THIS NEWS THE MENTS PLEASE DO NOT REVEAL THE RMATN YOUR SUBJECT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• MARCIA GAY HARN
• MARCIA GAY HARN WANTS HER LAW & ORR: SVU CHARACTER TO RETURN AGA

IT'S "ABSOLUTELY" TIME LAW & ORR: SVU INTRODUCED A NEW GAY CHARACTER—SO WHERE ARE THEY?

More often than not, gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr characters are murr victims rather than full-fledged characters.

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Prevalence of Gay People - Bad Blood. Law & Orr: SVU Season 1 Episo 11 marked the first time the show addrsed gay issu.

After the son of a vilently anti-gay activist was murred, the team discsed the irony of a homophobe havg a gay child and provid the dience wh statistics about the prevalence of gay people. Law & Orr: SVU Season 5 Episo 8 addrsed nversn therapy -- the ia of givg gay people therapy to turn them straight -- and how damagg that n be for them. In this story, F learned his son Ken was gay and stggled to accept Ken's sexual orientatn.

Homophobic Ias About Sexual Deviance - Alien.

MARCIA GAY HARN

Law & Orr: SVU Season 7 Episo 11 was the first to al wh homophobic beliefs that gay people are pedophil. It n be dangero to out someone as gay whout their permissn, as Law & Orr: SVU Season 9 Episo 16 monstrated.

In this story, a gay football player was spected of murrg his boyiend and got beaten up badly when the prs outed him as gay.

MARCIA GAY HARN WANTS HER LAW & ORR: SVU CHARACTER TO RETURN AGA

Huang's portrayer, BD Wong, is gay real life, which helped add nuance and realism to this story. Gays Aren't Pedophil Part II - Dissonant Voic. Law & Orr: SVU Season 15 Episo 7 aga explored the theme of false accatns of pedophilia, this time wh the atn of the reer of a popular -- but gay -- teacher thanks to basels accatns.

The two actors agreed 's an important story to tell, pecially sce the character beg gay won't be the cx. "I thk fely right now 's very fortunate that you uld have a gay police officer where you uld be like that's almost a throw away. It's not gog to be he's the gay police officer, he's jt dog his job, " Snavo Bell/NBC"It's kd of amazg that we're at a place where that won't be the central pot of the character's existence and yet, I thk the nversatn will be tricky and tertg and force people to al wh their own sort of stereotypil sense of what nstut a gay p, " Esparza said.

SVU is no stranger to havg LGBT characters as victims, but as a hero the story would flip the script, pecially for a show s 17th season and wh people like Kim Davis railg agast gay marriage makg headl left and right. It's the same issue wh gay marriage, I remember feelg like this is a ad issue that was a given that this human right…I wonr how we'd head there, but that'd be an tertg place to go.