Kathy Griffin Goes Gay for SVU

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        Kathy Griffin Goes Gay for SVU
    
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          Nov 12, 2009
          
        
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TV Guide is reporting that Kathy Griffin will play a lesbian activist in an upcoming episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Executive producer Neal Baer teased the appearance with a game of hangman on Twitter and revealed Griffin's appearance today.
 
The episode is scheduled to be broadcast February 10. 

        
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