LGBT Issues 12 Law & Order episodes
Cases involving sexual orientation, homophobia and gay rights.
- Season 1 · Episode 3
The Reaper's Helper
A shooting that looks like a robbery leads detectives to a man who says he has been helping men with AIDS end their lives.
- Season 2 · Episode 21
Silence
A well-liked city councilman falls from a bridge onto 10th Avenue, and the evidence suggests he was murdered first.
- Season 3 · Episode 21
Manhood
A patrolman dies in a shootout while backup units take their time, and detectives learn his fellow officers knew he was gay.
- Season 5 · Episode 23
Pride
An openly gay city councilman is shot on a Greenwich Village street, and suspicion falls on his young live-in partner and on a conservative rival.
- Season 6 · Episode 17
Deceit
A closeted corporate lawyer is shot dead hours after threatening to sue the law firm that fired him for being gay, and suspicion settles on the senior partner who had been pursuing him.
- Season 9 · Episode 14
Sideshow
A former White House staffer is found dead in Battery Park, and a joint investigation with Baltimore homicide draws McCoy into a fight with an Independent Counsel who wants his secret witness.
- Season 10 · Episode 13
Panic
The shooting of a best-selling mystery writer and her business manager exposes her secret affair with a married female FBI agent, and the agent’s husband tries a “gay panic” defense.
- Season 12 · Episode 17
Girl Most Likely
The killing of a principled private-school student points first to the athletes she reported, then to a secret that her best friend was desperate to keep.
- Season 14 · Episode 13
Married with Children
A motivational speaker is pushed from a hotel balcony, and suspicion falls on her former partner, who helped raise their daughter but has no legal claim to her under Florida’s ban on adoption by gay people.
- Season 15 · Episode 13
Ain't No Love
When a pioneering DJ is shot dead in his studio, his young protégé’s lyrics about a real killing make him the prime suspect, while Southerlyn’s doubts about the case put her at odds with McCoy and Branch.
- Season 15 · Episode 15
Obsession
A conservative TV host accused of sexual harassment is shot dead outside his book signing, and the woman who pulled the trigger claims his wife talked her into it.
- Season 18 · Episode 3
Misbegotten
A package bomb leaves a pregnant security guard in a coma, and the bomber’s motive leads back to a scientist trying to detect a genetic marker for homosexuality before birth.