Bury Your Gays: Difference between revisions

[[File:Watchmen_1357Watchmen 1357.jpg|link=Watchmen (Filmfilm)|rightframe]]

{{quote|''"[[Discussed Trope|It's not always the way it is in plays. ]][[Averted Trope|Not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story!]]"''|'''Michael''', ''[[The Boys in The Band]]''}}

Please note that sometimes gay characters die in fiction because in fiction sometimes people die (this is particularly true of soldiers at war, where [[SitchSituational Sexuality]] and [[Anyone Can Die]] are both common tropes); this isn't an if-then correlation, and it's not always meant to "teach us something" or indicative of some prejudice on the part of the creator - particularly if it was written after 1960. The problem isn't when gay characters are killed off: the problem is when gay characters are killed off ''far more often'' than straight characters, or when they're killed off ''because'' they are gay. This trope therefore won't apply to a series where [[Anyone Can Die]] (and does).

{{See also: [[|Gayngst]]}}.

== Anime &and Manga ==

* Probably parodied in episode 16 ("Take Back Love!") of ''[[Excel Saga (Animeanime)|Excel Saga]]'', where both Ropponmatsus fall in love with Hyatt and Excel, respectively, and are destroyed by the end of the episode. They get better, but they don't like them anymore because they're no longer programmed to love [[First Girl Wins|the first person they see]].

* Franz d'Epinay, who was secretly and tragically in love with Albert de Morcerf in ''[[Gankutsuou (Anime)|Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo]]'', sacrifices his life to save Albert's.

* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' has Tieria, whose "love" Lockon Stratos interest was killed before anything could develop... although whether or not Lockon would have generally reciprocated ANY feelings of a significantly ''deep'' nature is highly debatable. Tieria himself later dies... and then his mind not only survives, but it's uploaded into the super-computer VEDA.

* All lesbian main characters in ''[[ICE]]''--[[Cast Full of Gay|of which there are quite a few]]--meet—meet their demise in one way or another.

* In ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'' Himeko and Chikane confess their love to each other. Chikane dies ''and'' gets erased from existence. Then, come [[The Stinger]] epilogue, Chikane subverts this trope, having kept her promise of not letting even the gods stop her from returning to Himeko. Crowd goes wild. In the manga version, however, they get [[Reincarnation|reincarnated]] -- as—as sisters, in reference to the Japanese legend that says star-crossed lovers get reincarnated as [[Twincest|twins]].

* The ultimate fate of Gilbert in ''[[Kaze to Ki no Uta (Manga)|Kaze to Ki no Uta]]''.

* In ''[[Mai-HiME (Anime)|MaiMy-HiME]]'', Shizuru and Natsuki die at the end of their fight with each other, as a result of Natsuki using an attack that destroys both their Childs, killing each other, as they are each other's Most Important People. Subverted in that not only are they the last Himes to die, but they and everyone else get resurrected in the next episode.

* Maya in ''[[MayasMaya's Funeral Procession]]'' is burned to death minutes after learning that her love interest is [[Incest Is Relative|really her half-sister]]. Said love interest marries a man not long afterwards.

* Subverted in ''[[The Mikos Words and The Witches Incantations]]'': after setting up the standard yuri [[Downer Ending]], with Tsumugi having to die right after learning about love, the plot does a twist, wherein Letty goes and [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?|flips off the local god]], risking her life to become a deity herself -- allherself—all for Tsumugi's sake. The fans go "Awwww!"

* Rei Asaka/"Hana no Saint-Juste" in ''[[Oniisama Ee...]]'', although in depends on which adaptation you are following: In the anime she dies suddenly in an accident just when it's beginning to look as though she and her love interest Nanako are getting a happy ending; in the manga, it's suicide after her other "love interest", her half-sister Fukiko, gives her a cruel [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]].

* Mr. 2 Bon Kurei from ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' stayed behind in prison to allow for the other inmates to escape, and it was heavily implied he didn't make it out alive. Slightly mitigated in that many of those who escaped were Ivankov and his other [[Cross DresserCrossdresser|New Kama allies]], so it kind of balances out. Mr. 2 Bon Kurei's sacrifice was probably more indicative of the overall darker tone the series was beginning to take.

* ''[[X 1999]]'' has this at the core of the story. Kamui's mother Tohru and Fuuma and Kotori's mother Saya were lesbian lovers, but in order to save Tohru's life Saya agreed to marry her [[Romantic Runner -Up]] Kyougo Monou, in order to take Tohru's place and "give birth" to the holy sword (read: explode into a bunch of bloody pieces). Tohru survived, but later died by bursting into flames to protect her son.

* The main character from ''[[Claudine (Manga)|Claudine]]'' is a female-to-male [[TranssexualTransgender]] man. He takes his own life when it's all but stated that the [[Love Triangle]] between himself, his girlfriend Sirene and his brother Andre is not tipping towards him.

* A transgender variant pops up in one chapter of ''He Said "I'm A Girl"''. Yuki makes a comment on how one of her friends was [[Gay Panic|killed by her boyfriend]] after learning she was trans.

*** [[It Got Worse]]. In the character files book tying in with the series one of the main characters actually states he thinks that her girlfriend being brutally murdered will make Moondragon a BETTER''better PERSONperson''.

* [[The DCU]]'s Monsieur Mallah and the Brain, a... talking gorilla with a gun and a French accent and an immobile [[Brain In Aa Jar|brain in a little chamber thing]] that allows him to talk. Mallah got into a fight with Gorilla Grodd after the latter was offended at the suggestion that they're at all similar. Despite being armed, Mallah lost, and was beaten to death with ''The Brain'', who likewise expired. And that was the ''second'' time they died: the first was being blown to smithereens the instant they confessed their love for each other.

*** Which was then changed *again* to reveal that Northstar actually had elven blood, and that living in the mortal world away from the Fair Folk lands had given him a "wasting sickness." Peter David's disbelieving commentary on this in his "BUT I DIGRESS..." column: "So, Northstar's not gay -- he's a FAIRY''fairy''. Yeah, that's an improvement." This was retconned away rather quickly, as was the fatal illness.

** For a few issues, it looked like this happened to Northstar ''again'' in ''[[Ultimate X Men|Ultimate X-Men]]'', after an overdose of a mutant drug apparently made his heart give out... but a few issues later, he turned up fully alive, just paralyzed from the waist down. In other words, he's alive, he just can't have sex. Oops.

* In Marvel's ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]: [[Young Avengers]]/[[Runaways (Comic Book)|Runaways]]'', out of the fourteen heroes we have, the transgenderedtransgender Xavin gets her neck broken and the gay Hulkling gets dissected, while the gay Wiccan and the lesbian Karolina get kidnapped. The straight characters? Perfectly fine. Fortunately, Xavin and Hulkling are shape shifters but still...

* ''Justice League: Cry for Justice'' seemed like one of the more queer-inclusive products DC was putting out in recent days -- itdays—it has both [[Batwoman]] ''and'' Mikaal Tomas in the book's main superteam. Surprise! Mikaal's boyfriend is killed off for pathos' sake (offscreen), and obscure gay superhero the Tasmanian Devil is killed ''and skinned'' (again, offscreen) to set up the villain as a threat. Batwoman gets lucky by just disappearing from the series, and luckily had her own book planned that spared her from getting killed.

* In Matt Wagner's ''Grendel'' series, [[Action Girl|bad-ass]] bodyguard and fighter Susan Veraghen is portrayed as a lesbian. Her first lover abandons her. Her next lover is brutally killed. Her ''next'' lover abandons her and THEN is brutally killed. Veraghan herself lives to a ripe old age, but only after she falls in [[Courtly Love]] with the (male) Grendel Prime.

* After writer [[Peter David]] brought Rictor and Shatterstar together, many people guessed that he'd kill one or both of them off, to which he responded that he was aware of this trope and would purposefully avoid it.

* An [https://web.archive.org/web/20150421164947/http://www.bumbleking.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5334 unintentional] example, one can't help but think this with Rotor's brutal torture (and his significant other Cobar's implied death) shortly after their [[Word of Gay]] reveal in the ''[[Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' story "Mobius: 25 Years Later". The fact that writers Ian Flynn and Ken Penders (the one who wrote the torture and revealed the Word of Gay, respectively) are at odds about each other's writings, and the former's denouncement of the Word of Gay as "irrelevant" years earlier, didn't help matters any.

* This is used in the original ''[[Watchmen (Comic Bookcomics)|Watchmen]]'' comic to deconstruct ideas about homosexuality in golden age comics. A lesbian superhero is outed and thrown out of her bandteam, then brutally murdered alongside her lover. The killer was punishing them for their sexual orientation, but it was more that, had she retained her identity and the support of her co-workers, she would have been safe. In an interview, another superhero comments that a number of the other superheroes were understood (within the ranks) to be homosexual and nobody cared so long as they stayed in the closet and weren't caught.

* ''[[Two Thousand Maniacs!|2001 Maniacs]]'' - The [[Token Minority|gay guy]] is [[Death Byby Sex|sodomized to death]].

* ''[[Trailer Park Of Terror]]'' - A group of [[Cure Your Gays|troubled teens on a Christian retreat]] get [[Ironic Hell|tormented]] according to their most offensive [[Anvilicious|sin]] by a gang of supernatural [[Deep South|trailer]] [[Corrupt Hick|trash]]. The leader gets some [[Incredibly Lame Pun|head]] while cheating on his wife, [[Drugs Are Bad|the doper gets it after doing dope]], the [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|masturbator]] gets a not-so-happy ending, the [[Alpha Bitch|hetero couple]] gets [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]] misquoted at them for their [[Death Byby Sex|premarital sex]] before getting murdered. But the [[But Not Too Gay|gay]] guy? Well, he gets hit by a car, nothing to do with his "sin" to avoid showing the sin, unlike the rest of the characters, [[Unfortunate Implications|because gay sex would be too terrible to show in a movie filled with endless, varied torture and murder in loving close-up]]. Breasts are also too terrible to show. The writer tried to make the gay guy's primary sin different halfway through by having the gay guy literally throw the goth girl at one of the monsters so that he could escape, which only made him a [[Depraved Homosexual]]. [[Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?|And we only know that he's gay because another character calls the gay guy various epithets.]]

** Speaking of [[Depraved Homosexual|Depraved Homosexuals]]s, there's Larlene, who gets killed once for being a [[Psycho Lesbian|scary lesbian]] [[Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?|spouting sexually harassing threats at a het woman]], and then killed again for being a [[Lesbian Vampire|Lesbian Zombie]], who [[Incredibly Lame Pun|eats out]] a young female.

*** But don't worry: [[It Was His Sled|A heterosexual survives]].

* ''[[Nine9 Dead Gay Guys]]'': [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|All there in the title.]] The two protagonists,one straight and one gay, live.

* ''[[Beyond the Valley of the Dolls]]'' in some way subverted this trope. Though the lesbian couple in the film were not the only ones to die in the show, their fate was specifically mentioned in the sarcastic voice-over ending as not being based around the fact that their relationship was in any way evil. Of course, they also weren't the only people to die, just the only ones for whom it wasn't supposed to be a consequence or punishment of their wrongdoing according to that monologue.

* There's a montage in the documentary ''[[The Celluloid Closet]]'' (a history of homosexual depictions in film up through the early 1990s) of a ''litany'' of gay/lesbian characters either dying or being [[Depraved Homosexual|Depraved Homosexuals]]s or (most often) both.

* An early example would be the 1924 film [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_:Michael (1924_film)1924 film)|Michael]].

* ''[[Milk]]'': Controversial, to say the least: Harvey Milk may not have been killed specifically ''because'' he was gay, and Mayor George Moscone, a staight man, was killed in the same incident. However, Dan White, the assassin, was a self -described "defender of the home, the family, and religious life against homosexuals, pot smokers and cynics." On the other hand, he got on well with homosexuals professionally and said at other times that he respected their rights. Possibly a case of Politicianspoliticians being politicians.

* ''[[ChildsChild's Play (Filmfilm)|Bride of Chucky]]''. The sole gay character gets whacked on the highway.

* Subverted in ''Trevor''. 13-year-old Trevor attempts suicide over his homosexuality but recovers in hospital, where he meets a cute, friendly candy-striper, Jack, who offers him tickets to a Diana Ross concert. Trevor decides to live -- atlive—at least "until tomorrow" -- and—and dances up the path to his house.

* In ''[[Ma Vie Enen Rose]]'', the protagonist, a gender-variant seven-year-old whose gender variance causes him/her a lot of trouble, attempts suicide by shutting himself up in the family's garage freezer, but is rescued by his mother.

* In ''[[Bent]]'', it is a movie about two gay men in a concentration camp during the holocaust. Use your imagination.

* Lucy bites it at the end of ''[[High Art]]''.

* ''Cruising'' is also a serial killer stalking New York City's gay leather subculture, and Al Pacino going undercover to stop this. In contrast to the acres of dead sexually active perverts, Al's neighbor, Ted, is offered up as a contrast - he has a steady boyfriend and hates the idea of cruising. And he dies, too.

* The titular funeral in [[Four Weddings and Aa Funeral]]. The eulogy delivered for Gareth got the main character thinking about love and marriage, setting up the climax.

* ''[[Independence Day]]'' features a walking -- naywalking—nay, prancing -- gayprancing—gay stereotype played by Harvey Fierstein. Naturally, the aliens get him.

* ''[[Your Highness]]'' gets extra special mention for Boremont, who reveals his love for Fabious, [[Dying Declaration of Love|as Fabious is stabbing him]].

* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: Although the story of Sodom was probably originally about [[Sacred Hospitality|the treatment of guests]] (read: don't gang rape them), Jewish authors were already reading it as against homosexuality around 100 BCE. When things started to get worse for homosexuals and bisexuals in Europe in the 13th and 14th century, Sodom narratives became more common. The first known in English is ''Cleanness'' by the Pearl-Poet (author of ''[[Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (Literature)|Sir Gawain and Thethe Green Knight]]''), which includes a full description of the destruction of Sodom for homosexuality, complete with fiery dogs, and a lifeless sea and ash-filled fruit to symbolize sterility.

* James Baldwin's feel bad classic, ''Giovanni's Room'' is a stunning example. The novel is narrated by a sexually confused young man who is counting the hours before his lover is executed.

* In [[Voltaire (Creatorphilosopher)|Voltaire]]'s ''[[Candide (Literature)|Candide]]'', the Baron's son is ''heavily'' implied to be gay, {{spoiler|and he's the only one of the recurring characters who at the end is shipped off to be a galley slave.}}

* Partially subverted in [[China Mieville]]'s ''[[Iron Council (Literature)|Iron Council]]'': Cutter, who is gay, is one of the few characters to ''survive'' but his on-off boyfriend Judah is shot in one of the final scenes.

* For all of the death and destruction that happens in ''[[Warhammer 40 K,000]]'', this trope is oddly enough subverted during the ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' novels. Magot and Grifen, the lesbian couple, are pretty much hinted at being the only actual couple with names to survive long enough to see retirement aside from Cain and Amberley. Indeed, it is their relationship that's the main reason that they make it away from the Necrons without a major mental breakdown, which actually impresses Cain a bit, saying that he wishes there were more soldiers like them in the Imperial Guard.

* C J L Almquist's ''The Queen's Tiara'', which is set in Sweden in 1792, has Tintomara, who pretty much personifies [[Attractive Bent Gender]]. Two sisters and their respective suitors fall in love with her, the men thinking she's a woman, the girls convinced that she's male (at least initially). The men fight a [[Duel to Thethe Death]] over her, the sisters go insane, and Tintomara herself is eventually killed for her refusal to pick a gender role and stick with it.

* In [[Clive Barker|Clive Barker]]'s]] ''Imajica'' (by [[Zero Punctuation (Web Animation)|Clive Barker]]), a fantasy novel by British horror author [[Clive Barker]] (published in 1991), a subplot introduces an openly gay male couple who are friends of the Christ-like protagonist Gentle. One of the gay men, Taylor Briggs, dies of AIDS near the beginning of the story, while his partner Clem survives and goes on to help the protagonist. It is mentioned in passing that both men were in a lot of open relationships during the 1970s and "slept around" a lot, back before HIV became public knowledge; but only Taylor, the party animal, contracted HIV while his partner was plain lucky and never did, something for which Clem feels [[Survivor Guilt]]. [[Subverted Trope]] in that both men had been lovers for a long time and their love and relationship are depicted in a very positive light. Later on, Taylor returns as a ghost and reunites with Clem. At the end of the story, after the Reconciliation of all five realms, when all the souls of the dead of Earth and the other four Dominions are free to travel on to... somewhere else, before he departs Taylor asks his lover not to forget him but to go on with his life.

* The first -- andfirst—and so far only -- plainlyonly—plainly gay characters in R.A. Salvatore's ''[[The Dark Elf Trilogy]]'' were... pirates. The [[Incredibly Lame Pun|horrible joke]] is (thankfully?) ruined, as they're ''lesbian'' pirates (bisexual in the case of one). At least they're properly pirate-y, not just [[Fan Service]], though that makes them bad guys. But guess what? All the gay ones die, [[Going Down Withwith the Ship]] as it were ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|ugh]]). The bisexual one, who also happens to have maintained a male lover she coerced into working for the pirates, is a sorceress and manages to escape with him after he talks her into doing the right thing.

* ''[[The Book of Lost Things (Literature)|The Book of Lost Things]]'' features the knight Roland, who is trying to find out what happened to his lost lover, Raphael. He is, of course, dead. Roland ends up dying as well, once he finds out what happened.

* In Fritz Peters' ''Finistère'' Michel drowns at the end, probably intending to die though this is only hinted at. When the book was published -- inpublished—in the early '50s -- the50s—the tragic-conclusion trope was still de rigueur.

* ''[[Wicked (Literaturenovel)|Wicked]]''. [[Word of Gay]] is that there was something going on between Glinda and Elphaba. Elphaba, akaAKA the Wicked Witch of the West, [[It Was His Sled|dies at]] [[Foregone Conclusion|the end]]. [[Lighter and Softer|Not in the musical though]].

* [[Perry Moore]] wrote his young adult novel ''[[Hero (Literaturenovel)|Hero]]'' as a response to the use of this trope in superhero comics. There are several gay characters and several characters who die, but no overlap.

* Presumably, Edward II in the eponymous play by [[Christopher Marlowe (Creator)|Christopher Marlowe]], and his lover Gaveston. [[Real Life]] didn't help, of course.

* Hal Duncan's ''[[The BookofBook of All Hours]]'' duology has the gay character Thomas "Puck" Messenger get murdered early on in the first book, leaving behind his lover Jack... and dies again and again across the multiverse, to the point that one version of Puck and Jack find a tomb full of hundreds if not thousands of dead versions of Puck. Puck's treatment is a harsh criticism of this trope from Duncan (as well as upon real-world anti-gay violence, specifically the murder of Matthew Shepard), who is very outspoken about gay rights, and several versions of Jack manage to [[Earn Your Happy Ending|save their Pucks]] in the end.

* Pippa (of Libba Bray's ''Gemma Doyle'' trilogy) dies at the end of the first book, leading to her gradually turning into a monster in the realms before she is [[Killed Off for Real]] in the third book. However, the trope is subverted, as the series does not shine a negative light on homosexual relationships, and the reader only finds out she and Felicity were [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|in love]] after Pippa dies the first time.

* In Terry Goodkind's ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series the lesbian Raina dies from a magical plague in Richard's arms while her lover is trying to find a way to save her. They have time to say they love each other before she dies.

* ''[[Mass Effect Deception (Literature)|Mass Effect: Deception]]'' kills off Hendel Mitra, established as [[StraightInvisible to GayGaydar]] in [[Mass Effect (Franchise)/Ascension|another book]]... after ''Deception'' makes an effort to make him ''un''-gay by having him ogle asari strippers. Asari are monogendered aliens who [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|all look like blue women]].

* [[Truth in Television]] with ''[[Someone Else's War (Literature)|Someone Elses War]]''. The LRA hates Muslims and homosexuals and will kill both indiscriminately.

* Surprisingly, this is played straight more often than not in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''; specifically, Larry, the only (confirmed) gay man to ever appear on the show was killed off in the battle against The Mayor, and Tara, Willow's long term girlfriend was shot by Warren Mears. In addition to Tara, Willow's next girlfriend, Kennedy, was killed between Seasons 7 and 8, but then revived by Willow.

* Averted in the series ''[[Will and Grace]]''. All of the characters, including the flamboyantly gay Jack and title character Will (also homosexual), go on to live long, comfortable lives (as shown in the final episode).

* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' had a [[Very Special Episode]] guest-starring Wilson Cruz from ''[[My So-Called Life]]'' as an [[Attractive Bent Gender]] [[Hooker Withwith a Heart of Gold|Magical Prostitute]], who of course died at the end of the episode.

** Also Reid died before he and Luke could consummate their relationship.

* ''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'', which rather unsubtly implies a certain sapphic essence to the relationship between Talia and Susan, doesn't really go all the way to acknowledging that they sleep together until the episode in which Talia's personality is wiped, which is called "death". But had the [[Real Life Writes the Plot|actress playing Talia not]] left the show, [[Chekhov's Gun|Kosh had plans to make it better.]]

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'': Gaeta was revealed as bisexual, and he had a very unfortunate experience with a Cylon that ended up pushing him over the edge into a full-blown insurrection against Adama and his proposed Alliance with elements of the Cylons. For his part in the attempted coup, he was executed. All in the span of four episodes. Although in this case the Cylon relationship was heterosexual and his homosexual relationship was the nice one.

* Larry, the first openly and proudly homosexual person to be on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', was the only named student who got killed (well, permanently anyway) in season 3's finale. Then, several seasons later, there was Tara.

* In the ''[[Cold Case (TV)|Cold Case]]'' episode "Forever Blue", the cop who calls him and his partner 'the lucky ones', tells his father that he is a man, and all but admits that he's in love with said partner is the one who's killed. Meanwhile, his partner, who in present day, still insists until near the end of the episode that he isn't gay (and to add insult to death, claims his partner also wasn't 'like that') is the one who lives. He lived because he broke things off the night they were supposed to go patrolling together.

** Also, in the ''Cold Case'' episode "Best Friends", a butch lesbian dies and her girlfriend lives after they try to commit suicide by driving off a bridge, while being chased by her homophobic brother.

** Another ''[[Cold Case (TV)|Cold Case]]'' episode featured elements of this trope being applied, not to gays, but to the deaf. A student at a deaf school has a massive falling-out with his parents and friends over his attraction to a non-deaf teaching assistant, and is murdered by his roommate when he acquires a cochlear implant, making the proudly-deaf roommate feel abandoned and betrayed.

* ''[[Dirty Sexy Money]]'' killed off its transsexualtransgender character Carmelita, who was played by real life transexualtranswoman Candis Cayne. Making it even worse was that the show had just been canceled, giving the impression that they just had to get that death in before it was over. Viewers had had their eyes on the show right from the start as well, as in the pilot episode Cayne's voice was digitally lowered an octave. [[Word of God]] explained that Cayne ispasses so convincingwell as a woman that they were afraid [[Viewers are Morons|the audience wouldn't get that the character usedwas toassigned bemale aat manbirth]].

* Nicely subverted in ''[[Flash Forward (TV series)|Flash Forward]]''. The episode in which Janis is confirmed to be a lesbian ends with her lying alone in the street, bleeding out from a bullet to the stomach. In the next episode, she gets to a hospital and is saved.

* ''[[GreysGrey's Anatomy]]'' is not immune. Hey, look, the Patient of the Week's a gay Marine! Guess we better- oops... But hey, this other one called Benjamin probably has a chan-- damnchan—damn.

* The British soap opera ''[[Holly OaksHollyoaks]]'' recently had a one-week series of ''Hollyoaks'' later, which is the same but [[Darker and Edgier]]. It concluded with the death of Sarah Barnes after her psychotic girlfriend mistakenly slashed her parachute instead of Zoe's.

* The fourth episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' has two main couples whose babies are given different treatments to solve the case. The innocent lesbians lose their child, the (granted, unknowingly) infection-spreading straight couple keeps their child.

* The Spanish soap opera ''Los Hombres de Paco'' recently wed one of its most popular pairs, lesbian couple Pepa and Silvia, in one the biggest and most hyped weddings of the year. All went well and the wedding was lovely -- andlovely—and then Silvia was shot when gangsters beseiged the reception. Unable to get medical help for hours (and still in her [[Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress]]) she slowly and painfully bled to death on the floor as [[Died in Your Arms Tonight|Pepa held her and told her she loved her]]. The episode is almost Whedon-esque in its ability to cause maximum trauma to shippers.

* Steve from ''[[Reaper (TV)|Reaper]]''. Somewhat subverted by the fact that his boyfriend, Tony, is the only survivor after the Devil killed all the other demons. Steve is also redeemed and goes to Heaven as an angel. And provides an example for ''more'' demons who want to (attempt to) be good.

* Captain Alicia Vega was supposed to be the first canonically gay character in the ''[[Stargate]]'' universe, which had a respectable reputation in real life for the diversity of its cast and characters, but had yet to feature an out character. She was introduced in the first episode of season five of ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'' and was heralded as a new recurring character, but almost all her scenes from her introductory episode were deleted for pacing reasons, [[Hide Your Lesbians|including the scene where her sexuality was hinted]]. The producers then decided her character did not fit the series as well as they liked, and she was killed in her second appearance.

** Averted with Camille Wray on ''[[Stargate Universe (TV)|Stargate Universe]]''. In an [[Alternate Universe]], she actually outlived all the other cast members, [[Fridge Logic|despite being one of the older crewmembers]].

* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' had a third-season episode called "Ghostfacers" in which a gay character is introduced and immediately killed, only to come back as a ghost for a bit... and then perform a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to become [[Deader Than Dead]]. Everyone else survives.

* ''[[Todd and Thethe Book of Pure Evil]]'' kills off a gay character in the fourth episode (though he had used the [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Book of Pure Evil]], which doesn't end well for ''anyone'').

* There has been only one confirmed lesbian couple in ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]''. In a show set in ''[[San Francisco]]'', no less. Not only are they very minor characters, one of them naturally gets killed.

* By the seventh episode of ''[[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]'', all three gay characters have either been killed or have killed themselves. A fourth gay character was introduced the very next episode, although he wasn't revealed to be gay until season two.

* Although ''[[True Blood]]'' initially [[Spared Byby the Adaptation|subverted]] this trope with Lafayette, the fourth season finale kills off both Lafayette's boyfriend, Jesus, AND [[Suddenly Sexuality|Tara.]] Unless [[Unexplained Recovery|she gets better]].

* In the ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' season 3 finale, they seem to have done this with BOTH of their queer characters--Hcharacters—H.G. Wells and Steve Jinks. Fortunately, there's a hint that the deaths may not be permanent.

* In ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'', the only queer regular character is Angela, Jimmy's bisexual - though lesbian-leaning - wife. She and her lover are killed by Manny Horovitz as retaliation for the hit Jimmy put out on him. [[Bury Your Gays]] '''AND''' [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]! Thanks, Winter!

{{quote| ''I wanna play the part of Eddie in ''"The Stranger Dance''<br />"

''He makes love to the duke<br />

''He swordfights the queen<br />

''He steals the whole show in his last dying scene ''}}

* Elton John's "All the Girls Love Alice," about a lesbian who dies:

{{quote| ''Gettin' your kicks in another girl's bed <br />

''And it was only last Tuesday... <br />

''They found you in the subway, dead! ''}}

* The name "[[Scissor Sisters]]" is a shortening of the band's original name, "[[Refuge in Audacity|Dead Lesbian and Her Fibrillating Scissor Sisters]]".

* Bobby Gentry's ''Ode to Billy Joe'', depending on the interpretation.

* The [[Velvet Underground]]'s "Lady Godiva's Operation" is a [[Black Comedy]] song about a [[TranssexualTransgender|transwoman]] who accidentally gets sent to a brain operation and dies due to an incompetent surgeon.

* This seems to be a favorite trope of Tennessee Williams, much of the anguish motivating the protagonists of his two most famous plays, ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' and ''[[Cat Onon a Hot Tin Roof]]'' revolves around gay men who commit suicide.

* ''[[The Boys in Thethe Band]]''. Michael both [[Lampshadeslampshade]]s and [[Inverted Trope|inverts]] the Trope.

{{quote| '''Michael:''' It's not always the way it is in plays. Not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story!}}

* In ''[[The ChildrensChildren's Hour]]'', two schoolteachers, Martha and Karen, have their lives and reputations irrevocably shattered after one of their beastly students spreads a rumor that they are lesbian lovers. After a bitter confrontation with the student's grandmother, and even after the women lose their court case for slander, the big twist is that Martha really ''did'' have those feelings for Karen, but never knew how to articulate them until they were spoken by someone else. Karen is accepting of her friend, and suggests they move away and start a new life together. In both the film and theatre version of the story, Martha kills herself before the night is through.

* Painfully and sadly played straight in ''[[A Chorus Line]]''. Paul, after suffering a horrible childhood being rejected for being gay, falls on his leg that was operated on some time ago during a tap routine. While he doesn't die ''per-say se'', his career ends and the other characters mourn how any of them could have a suffered a similar fate.

* In the Japanese ''[[Mai-HiME (Anime)|MaiMy-HiME]]'' computer game, if you as the main character [[Dating Sim|choose to date]] [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Natsuki Kuga]], [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|her best friend Shizuru Fujino]] is so hurt that she [[Driven to Suicide|kills herself]].

* Sorta subverted but not really in ''[[Phantasmagoria]] 2''. Trevor is the last out of four characters to be murdered, and specifically because Curtis loved him the most. However, he also dies right after admitting that he loves Curtis and right before they can kiss. The [[Shallow Love Interest|female love interest survives]], apparently remembering that she was, in fact, a character in the game after [[Ten -Minute Retirement|disappearing from the last half of it or so]].

** Also applies to {{spoiler|the Androsynth race from the original ''Star Control''. Yes, the ''entire species''.}}

* Inverted in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''. [[Camp Gay]] Dist is the only one of the villains who survives.

** Ocelot is a borderline example: his [[Single -Target Sexuality|insane devotion]] to Big Boss is what gets him killed in the end.

* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' averts this with allowing players of either gender to have healthy relationships with the bisexual characters [[Jeanne D 'Archetype|Leliana]] and [[Hitman Withwith a Heart|Zevran]], and possibly even to survive the story with them. Notably Herren and Wade are one of the only happy, stable couples in the entire game.

** The same applies to ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', where there are four bisexual options, and the player can be in a loving relationship with any of them.

* In ''[[Deadly Premonition (Video Game)|Deadly Premonition]]'', Thomas suffers a rather gruesome death after flipping out and going all [[Depraved Homosexual]] (thereby forcing the player to fight him).

* ''[[Chess Piece (Fanfic)|Chess Piece]]'' deconstructs this: Danny's gay lover commits suicide and comes back as a ghost. It's [[Driven to Suicide|implied as to why]], but still.

* ''[[Cuanta Vida (Webcomic)|Cuanta Vida]]'' has BLU Sniper Liam and RED Spy Gabry. Gabry is killed taking a bullet for Liam. [[Together in Death|Liam commits assisted suicide later]], after losing his eyes.

* ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'' briefly attracted a fair bit of controversy when it killed off the only gay character in the comic. While some of this was (arguably justified) outrage over having a fan-favourite character killed off unceremoniously in a completely unforshadowed plot twist, some of it came from the fact that one of the first victims of the killing spree ''just so happened'' to be the lesbian. Fortunately, [[Back Fromfrom the Dead|she gets better.]]

* There are three homosexual characters in ''[[Tactical Noobs]]'', all of whom die horribly within seconds of being introduced. The first blasts himself with a rocket launcher. The second two are [[Kill It Withwith Fire|flame-throwered]] by someone who disagrees with their choice to vote for [[Barack Obama]] for president.

* Usually averted in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', thanks to the [[Kill'Em All]] / [[Anyone Can Die]] storyline in play, which means most characters regardless of sexual orientation will die. However, the [[Spin-Off]] ''Evolution'' had [[StraightInvisible Gayto Gaydar|Billy-Jay Clarke]] be the very first person to die, due to his power overloading, causing his [[Eye Scream|eyes to melt out of their sockets]].

* Surprisingly subverted in ''[[Superman the Animated Series|Superman: The Animated Series]]'' (That is, if [[Hide Your Lesbians|you managed to notice it at all]]), espcially since this is a show that is ''not'' [[Never Say "Die"|afraid to say "die"]]. Maggie Sawyer is blown out of her car during an attack by Intergang, and the next shot has her badly burned and motionless beneath a crushing pile of rubble, ''without'' [[Eye Awaken|moving her eyes]] or [[Finger-Twitching Revival|her fingers]]. Dan Turpin even calls the attackers "murderers" as he screams at them, so everything seems to be indicating that she [[Killed Off for Real|is really dead]]... [[Not Quite Dead|except she is alive]], and she returns later on in this and future episodes. In fact, her recovery is the first ([[Hide Your Lesbians|and only]]) appearance of her girlfriend in the series... and ''Turpin'' is later [[Killed Off for Real]].

* Weirdly enough, inverted in ''[[Superjail (Animation)|Superjail]]'' -- a—a gay couple isare onetwo of the few characters to ''survive'' every episode.

* In the show ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'', a group of gladiators killed each other, and were forced to continue fighting each other in the afterlife as ghosts. [[Word of Gay|It was revealed months after the episode aired that the gladiators weren't brothers or friends; they were all homosexual couples.]] [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|This is a kid's show.]]

* Matthew Shepard was a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student who was brutally beaten and killed because of his sexual orientation. The two men accused of torturing Shepard, resulting in his deathdeath—Aaron -- Aaron [[Mc Kinney]]McKinney and Russell Henderson -- areHenderson—are serving life sentences in connection with the crimes. The beating of Shepard (and resulting funeral demonstrations by the Rev. Fred Phelps and followers at the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas) [[The Laramie Project|brought worldwide attention to hate crimes]] and eventually resulted in passage of the Matthew Shepard Act, which provides more specific definitions of what constitutes a hate crime and severe penalties for those who engage in hate acts against people who are (or perceived to be) homosexual, along with race, creed, gender or disability.

* The Motion Picture Production Code, or [[Hays Code]], madeforbade itmovies illegalfrom to showshowing or referencereferencing "sexual perversion" unless the people involved ended up dead, villainous, or converted by the end of the work.

* The story of Emperor Ai of Han and his romantic affair with [[The Woobie|Dong Xian]] ... is quite the [[Downer Ending]].

* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: The [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmodius_and_Aristogeiton:Harmodius and Aristogeiton|Tyrannicides]]: Short version, Greek noble Aristogeiton is upset that the tyrant's brother Hipparchus keeps putting the moves on his boy toy (Harmodius), so the couple decide it's time for the tyrant (Hippias) and his brother to go. An elaborate assassination is plotted, but botched, killing Hipparchus but not Hippias, as well as Harmodius. Aristogeiton is of course captured, but manages to trick Hippias into [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|killing him during the interrogation]].

* After a typical yet fateful taping of athe ''Jenny Jones'' episode "Same-Sex Secret Crushes", Scott Amedure was killed sometime later by Jonathan Schmitz, the very person he had a crush on.

* [http://www.trevorspace.com Trevorspace] is a web community devoted to [[Averted Trope|averting this trope]] in [[Real Life]]. Closely tied to the [[The "It Gets Better" Project]], with the same goal.