Devin Lapierre

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Teenage Danny sits in the waiting room of a hospital with his homophobic and desperate father and his older brother Beckett’s outspoken, secret boyfriend after Beckett has been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.