Don We Now Our Gay Apparel

Don We Now Our Gay Apparel is the ninth episode of the second season of NYPD Blue.

Summary
Simone and Sipowicz investigate the murder of a gay bar owner during the Christmas holidays. Meanwhile, Fancy's wife goes into labor to have her baby. Breen breaks his promise to Sipowicz by checking up on his son and decides to go back to him, which turns out to be fatal when Breen's son kills him and Sipowicz has to arrest him.

Main

 * Jimmy Smits as Detective Bobby Simone
 * Dennis Franz as Detective Andy Sipowicz
 * James McDaniel as Lieutenant Arthur Fancy
 * Gail O'Grady as P.A.A Donna Abandando
 * Gordon Clapp as Detective Greg Medavoy
 * Sharon Lawrence as A.D.A Sylvia Costas
 * Nicholas Turturro as Detective James Martinez

Recurring

 * Justine Miceli as Detective Adrienne Lesniak

Other

 * Peter Boyle as Danny Breen
 * Enrico Colantoni as Danny Breen, Jr.
 * Jahna Steele as Candance La Rue
 * Ray Buktenica as Mauro Graciale
 * Charles Cioffi as Raymond Schelzo
 * Bernard Kates as Herman Costello
 * Fabiana Udenio as Ramona Costello
 * Mario Di Donato as Juan Costello
 * Mike Sabatino as Officer Martelli

Important Events

 * Lieutenant Arthur Fancy is seen with a baby beeper, and at the end of the episode, his wife gives birth to a baby - Arthur Fancy, Jr.

Trivia

 * When Sipowicz asks Danny if he follows the Mets, he says "The Mets are on strike." This dates filming to at most five months before airing, as the Major League Baseball strike referenced by the script didn't start until mid-August 1994. The strike actually continued until some four months after the episode first aired, ending in April 1995 as the longest stoppage in MLB history. Almost a thousand games were canceled, and at the time, it was also the longest stoppage for any major league sport in the US or Canada.
 * Final appearance of Peter Boyle, who portrayed Andy Sipowicz' AA Sponsor Dan Breen.