Lincoln Haver is an esteemed, secretly gay football quarterback and the prime suspect in the murder of his husband Jeremy Haines.
History[]
Not wanting his career to be tarnished by his sexuality, Lincoln had a female model act as his partner, but she was unaware of the truth. Olivia Benson came under scrutiny from Internal Affairs when his orientation was supposedly leaked by her then-boyfriend in the newspaper, Kurt Moss. It was revealed the leak and Haines' murder were both committed by his agent, Gary Lesley, who hoped to drop him as a client to move on for his own success. Haver was subsequently released and thanked the detectives for getting the truth out. He remarked that all he wanted to do was play football and how it gave him everything but then caused him to lose what his husband before he walked off. (SVU: "Closet")