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== Real Life ==
* Has been known to happen in [[Real Life]], and all too often because someone is [[Driven to Suicide]] or the victim of a hate crime, resulting in a disproportionately high mortality rate in the gay community.
* 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 death -- Aaron
* After taking power in 1933, [[Those Wacky Nazis|the Nazis]] persecuted homosexuals as part of their so-called moral crusade to racially and culturally purify Germany. This persecution ranged from dissolution of homosexual organizations to internment of thousands of individuals in concentration camps. Gay men, in particular, were subject to harassment, arrest, incarceration, castration and murder. In Nazi eyes, gay men were weak and unfit to be soldiers, as well as unlikely to have children and thereby contribute to the racial struggle for Aryan dominance. They also persecuted lesbians, but less severely.
** Even tody, in many Islamic and African countries, homosexuality is a crime, sometimes even punishable by death.
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