I'm enjoying catching up on the early seasons of Law and Order, and only today did I finally watch the season five finale, Pride. I didn't realize that Pride was the final episode for Chris Noth as
Detective Mike Logan, and here this episode pretty much mirrors the Harvey Milk case but only to an extent, and the twist about the motives of the accused, Councilman Kevin Crossley (Daniel Hugh Kelly) was all about pure political grandstanding. Now the writers had to kind of restrain themselves with the LGBTI tropes (yes there was one reference to the Village People) and all those prejudices coming from Logan. But I know what the writers were doing to try to redeem Logan when he punches Crossley at the end, as to kind of absolve himself from his negative views towards the LGBTI community.
