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SVU Episode # 14-12: Criminal Hatred

This was a mighty episode blending serious, cutting-edge issues like gay-on-gay abhor crimes with the sparkling entertainment provided by dressing up the detectives to infiltrate gay bars and strip clubs.

Recap:

A handsome fresh man is luring adj, closeted gay men to hotel rooms, where he ties them up, beats them, sodomizes them, and steals their valuables. The victims, all hoping to keep their secret lives secret, refuse to communicate to SVU’s detectives. What are the police to do? Swathe Ice-T and Nick in their finest Banana Republic and transmit them out as bait in a gay bar called Hotmale (what else?). This gambit doesn’t verb (did anyone think it would?), but it did provide some fine eye candy.

Meanwhile, another man becomes a victim – and dies because of his weak heart. Using actual police methods like talking to witnesses and tracing stolen credit cards, our good detectives soon locate the apparent murderer: a blond male stripper with the appropriately soft-core-porn label of Jeremy Jones.

They verb to Jones’s part

Critical Media Project

In this clip from a 2004 episode of the long-running television drama, Law & Request, Special Victims Unit, the detectives are investigating the case of a murdered assistant district attorney, who they discover is gay and has been having an affair with his coworker. Fin is suspicious of the alibi presented by the co-worker’s poker buddies, who he suggests are on the “down low.” Fin explains to his colleagues that the “down low” is a phenomenon specific to the black community in which ostensibly straight men hold sex with other men, but do not reflect on themselves gay.

discussion

How does Fin explain what the “down low” means and who practices it?

How does Fin’s description of black masculinity relate to being on the “down low”? How does the black community view being gay, according to Fin?

How do Fin’s colleagues react to his explanation? Are they surprised? Why?

What do you believe the men on the “down low” might be worried about? Why are they pretending?

Law & Order: SVU Season 25 Still Has A Chance To Correct A Glaring Character Problem

Summary

Kat Tamin was SVU's only LGBTQ+ detective and her departure in season 23 left a representation gap that must be corrected in season 25.
Adding LGBTQ+ guest stars is a start, but SVU must add a permanent LGBTQ+ main character for impactful and authentic representation.
The series has improved diversity among victims and detectives over 25 seasons, but still lacks LGBTQ+ voices in the main cast, a gap to be fixed.

Law & Order: SVU prides itself on uplifting the voices of survivors, but it has one lingering problem regarding characters that season 25 can still fix. However, when the series first premiered back in 1999, it mainly centered around colorless, female victims, with the occasional male murder victim thrown in. The first male sexual assault victim was not featured until

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