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See also [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] and [[Bait and Switch Lesbians]] for the nicer way to let the ship down. If the characters' [[Hide Your Lesbians|relationship is obscured]], it drastically increases their chance of survival (note from the names of all three that they're most common for female couples. [[Double Standard|If you're a man, you're basically screwed]]).
Please note that sometimes gay characters die in fiction because in fiction sometimes people die (this is particularly true of soldiers at war, where [[Sitch 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).
Can be seen as [[Truth in Television]] in some cases, as gay and lesbian people are at a substantially higher risk for suicide. And, well, dying violently at the hands of a stranger. And the fact that AIDS hit the gay male community most prominently provided potent fresh fuel for this long running trope (which, like many things about the eighties, still has an effect on more recent works). Not to mention that nothing communicates that "the wage of sin is death" quite like killing off your gay character.
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Period fiction also needs to take into account the lack of understanding of gay characters, whereby depicting the death or murder of homosexuals may not reflect the views of the author but the social dynamics of the setting.
{{See also|Gayngst}}.
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