History Main / GayngstInducedSuicide

* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in ''Film/{{Heathers}}''. Veronica and J.D. pass off several murderers they have committed as suicides by forging {{Suicide Note}}s. They make the two {{Jerk Jock}}s Ram and Kurt out to be closeted homosexuals, which makes the whole thing more credible and buys the two guys some post-mortem compassion from the rest of the community.

* In the alpha version of ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' Misha, who has unrequited feelings for her best friend Shizune, falls into a depression and kills herself by standing in front of a car. The alpha is incomplete, as many of the arcs were vastly rewritten and it was accidentally leaked, but there's no apparent way to stop this. She dies in both the bad ''and'' good endings. Misha is an example where her {{gayngst}} is only a part (albeit a major part) of why she committed suicide. She also had many self-esteem issues.

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* Happens in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Butters gets sent to a straight camp after being MistakenForGay and many of its young residents commit suicide because of the harshness of being told they are confused.

This is a [[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs highly dangerous trope]] as "the more frequently someone is exposed to suicide, the more at risk they themselves are[;] a community that has been bombarded with depictions of suicide should itself be more prone to it." [[UsefulNotes/SuicidePrevention There are people to call if you are feeling this way.]] Also, [[https://news.stanford.edu/2015/11/19/suicide-stereotype-germany-111915/ Stanford are researching the trope]].

* In ''Film/'', the 8-year old trans girl protagonist hides in a freezer at one point. Her suicide attempt, however, fails.

* In ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour'', 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 1960 film and theatre version of the story, Martha kills herself before the night is through. The 1930s film adaptation These Three averts this as Martha is [[HideYourLesbians straight]] and doesn't attempt suicide.

* In the alpha version of ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' Misha falls into a depression and kills herself by standing in front of a car. The alpha is incomplete, as many of the arcs were vastly rewritten and it was accidentally leaked, but there's no apparent way to stop this. She dies in both the bad ''and'' good endings.

* In the first series of ''Series/{{Damages}}'', Patty Hewes tries to force her deeply unhappily closeted gay rival Ray Fiske to settle his client's case in her favour, and join her firm, by blackmailing him over his sexual orientation. She genuinely seems to think that he'd be happier working with her, but his response is to [[AteHisGun eat a gun]] in her office, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone seriously shocking her]].

* In the first series of ''Series/{{Damages}}'', Patty Hewes tries to force her closeted gay rival Ray Fiske to settle his client's case in her favour, and join her firm, by blackmailing him over his sexual orientation. She genuinely seems to think that he'd be happier working with her, but his response is to [[AteHisGun eat a gun]] in her office, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone seriously shocking her]].

A SubTrope of DrivenToSuicide. This trope does not apply to any suicide of an LGBT character; it only occurs when a character's suicide is partially or wholly caused by problems arising from their LGBT identity.

In terms of being DrivenToSuicide, this may be considered a SubTrope but often has different motivation. The reason for the suicide must be connected to being LGBT+ and so it is more focused on this aspect of the trope, particularly the miseries of gay life and toxicity of society that enables it.

* ''Manga/NatsuENoTobira'' has Claude, who is in love with Marion (yes, a boy) and ultimately commits suicide.

* ''Series/{{Quantico}}'' went into its winter break with the death of its sole gay recurring character, Elias, who is blackmailed into helping the BigBad carry out an attack and then chooses to leap out a window to his death rather than be arrested.

The trope may be more common in older works, as a matter of ValuesDissonance or for an exception to the Hays Code allowing homosexuals to be shown in media, as long as they were miserable. However, it is still TruthInTelevision: LGBT individuals are still at higher risk for suicide, even in the Western world. Also, [[https://news.stanford.edu/2015/11/19/suicide-stereotype-germany-111915/ Stanford are researching the trope]].

This is a [[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs highly dangerous trope]] as "the more frequently someone is exposed to suicide, the more at risk they themselves are[;] a community that has been bombarded with depictions of suicide should itself be more prone to it." [[UsefulNotes/SuicidePrevention There are people to call if you are feeling this way.]]

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* Sadly, this trope is very much TruthInTelevision, and especially amongst gender minorities. Some 40% of transsexuals have sometimes in their lives attempted suicide, and 19% of intersexuals. ''Specific examples are redundant and therefore not necessary''.
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* Played with to the moon and back in ''Series/BlackMirror''[='=]s "Recap/BlackMirrorSanJunipero". Yorkie comes out and is shunned by her family so runs away, getting into a car accident and becoming paralyzed and unable to communicate, later choosing euthanasia when technology is made available to give a "living" afterlife that she can experience. Whilst this is an eventual by-product of her coming out, it is a choice she makes in order to actually get a life when during her living years she has effectively been dead, and in a society where euthanasia is a norm.

* ''Theatre/McQueen'' opens on Alexander [=McQueen=] as he debates killing himself, and this underscores the whole play, with one interpretation being that Dahlia coming to him is an imagined ManicPixieDreamGirl version of himself who reminds him of his loves and ambitions, but does so by taking him on a journey physically from West to East London, but figuratively from the present backwards through his life to his birth. The fact that it is a GirlyGirl who appears, and how she helps expose his complicated feelings for women, also relates that it is in some ways philosophising on his sexuality. The play is set around 2008, the real [=McQueen=] killed himself in 2010, officially listed as gay-related.

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* Senator Brig Anderson in ''Film/AdviseAndConsent''. - '''Administrivia/ZeroContextExample''' - '''Is he gay, and does he commit suicide?'''

* Margaret in ''Affinity'' intends to take her life at the end of the story. The TV adaptation explicitly shows her jumping into the Thames. - '''Administrivia/ZeroContextExample''' - '''Is she a lesbian?'''

* In Fritz Peters's ''Finistere'', Michel drowns at the end, probably intending to die though this is only hinted at. When the book was published -- in the early '50s -- the tragic-conclusion trope was still ''de rigueur''. - '''Administrivia/ZeroContextExample''' - '''Is Michel gay?'''

* ''Theatre/TheBoysInTheBand'': Michael both lampshades and inverts the trope. - '''Administrivia/ZeroContextExample''' - '''Is he gay, and does he commit suicide?'''

This is a [[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs highly dangerous trope]] as "the more frequently someone is exposed to suicide, the more at risk they themselves are[;] a community that has been bombarded with depictions of suicide should itself be more prone to it."

A common trope, often done as a commentary on {{Homophobia|Index}}, this is when UsefulNotes/{{LGBT}} characters are DrivenToSuicide because of their sexuality, either because of internalized homophobia (hating themselves) or experiencing a miserable life because of their "deviant" gender or sexuality: having to hide who they are, not finding a stable relationship, homophobia from other parties, etc.

It is one way for a show to invoke BuryYourGays, but may have worse implications by suggesting that not only must gay characters die but that it must be a stereotypically dishonorable method in suicide, and also that by choosing to kill themselves they are acknowledging how their existence is wrong.

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This trope proposal is brought to you by [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1502683699022619600&page=1 this TRS thread]] on BuryYourGays. See [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1502683699022619600&page=4#84 here.]]
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