"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" Officially Gains a Gay Character
***Spoiler warning!*** Stop reading if you don't want to learn the identity of the gay character on NBC's Law and Order: Special Victim's Unit.
Wednesday night's episode of Law & Order: SVU titled "Hardwired" and featuring Rosie Perez is sure to be controversial given it deals with pedophiles who claim their interest in children is an orientation like heterosexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality.
But gay viewers will be especially interested as the episode also finally confirms what many fans of the show have long suspected — that Special Agent George Huang, M.D. played by B.D. Wong is in fact a gay man.
The information is revealed when Huang becomes upset that a child molester is trying to argue that being a pedophile is no different than being gay or straight and that criminalizing pedophilia is akin to domonizing gays and lesbians. This prompts Huang to say it "insults his humanity as a gay man."
Many viewers have long suspected that Huang is gay (in fact naming him as the 22nd best gay character on television), but a publicist for the show confirmed this is the first time the show has confirmed Huang's sexuality or referenced it on the show. While the news isn't exactlly a surprise for many of us, it's still nice to have it confirmed and in such a positive way.
We'll have more on the episode tomorrow including a short interview with Wong. While discussing this news in the comments please do not reveal the information in your subject line.
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I remember quite distinctly
I'm pretty sure not. We looked into this extensively
I’m impressed, you know
I’m impressed, you know what you’re talking about
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No, he's never stated he was
I must have confused the
I must have confused the character and the actor's real life, then. Though I watched the Italian dubbed edition of the show-- but I couldn't imagine the adapters making a character gay. If anything, gay characters become straight XD
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I remember the exact opposite
I have not seen every episode of L&O: SVU, but I seem to remember in episodes dealing with gay people Dr. Huang referring to gay people and the gay community in the third person ("them," "they," "gay people"). He probably was just being professional since it was not about him, but I always found that interesting.
It is good to have an out gay hero on that show since it so much of it deals with the ugly side of sexuality. Also, considering the two leads just got raises, there is probably little chance of the show being cancelled mid-season like so many other shows this year with gay characters.
LOL I remember quite distinctly
What does this have to do
nah
B.D. Wong
Yes he is openly gay in real life
He and his ex had a son together.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000703/bio
B.D. Wong was on the inaugural Hot 100 list
B.D. Wong made the first AfterElton Hot 100 list at #81.
He's been out for a long time. I remember reading articles about him and his ex-partner conceiving a baby through surrogacy. They ended up having twin sons.
He is not the first
Nothing intricate about it
I've often wondered...
Aha! I've actually drafted an "Ask the Flying Monkey" letter about this very thing, but never sent it. BD Wong is so out that it was easy to just extend the assumption to the character as well. Nice to get it clear.
No, not "distant gay traces" -- it's distingué traces!
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I was very pleased to find
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