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* Lee Farrell and Tedy Sapp in the Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker.
* Mercedes Lackey's ''[[Heralds of Valdemar]]'' series has some gay, lesbian, and bi Herald characters, and as Heralds they're pretty much required to be badass, psychic soldier-rangers. Herald-Mage Vanyel was especially badass, being one of very, very few people to achieve the huge power of a mage adept, and almost single-handedly holding off an entire army that attacked his country. He was also pyrokinetic, telepathic, empathic, telekinetic, and clairvoyant, a skilled swordsman, an important advisor to the king, and able to predict the future.
* ''[[The Steel Remains]]'' by Richard Morgan has a number of
* Dekka from ''[[Gone (novel)]]'' is a lesbian example, and, as of ''Fear'', {{spoiler|Edilio}} qualifies as well.
* Cnaiür urs Skiötha from R. Scott Bakker's ''[[Second Apocalypse]]''. He is an unparalleled murderer, strategist, and tactician, as well as being one of the only characters that can resist Kellhus' manipulation and eventual domination.
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* Homosexuality was very common among the armies of [[Badass Army|the Spartans.]]
* Alexander The Great, though debatable since he was after all Greek, some historians suspect his sudden death was brought on by heart break after his lover and man at arms had died, but before that in a stint of just 12 years he conquered his way through the entire Mediterranean, Egypt, Persia and only stopped at India because of monsoon season and his mens homesickness.
* The Sacred Band of Thebes, 150 [[Battle Couple
* [[Siegfried Sassoon]]. Yes, that's right, the First World War poet. When he wasn't writing (justifiably) angsty and horrific war poetry or protesting the war's improper prolongation, he was crawling out into No Man's Land on regular German-hunting patrols. Robert Graves, in his autobiography, describes him as flipping between happy warrior and bitter pacifist, and describes his battlefield activities with the words "wholesale slaughter". Consider that Graves himself was an active combat officer in one of the most godawful wars in history, and it gives you some idea of what Sassoon was like.
* Freddie Mercury.
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