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* ''Film/FirstGirlILoved'': After she admits her attraction to a girl, Anne's best friend then does everything possible to sabotage things between them out of homophobia and jealousy. His jealousy even leads to him ''raping'' her. After she's photographed Sasha, the object of her affection, Sasha's mother pressures her into claiming Anne had forced her to (Sasha actually initiated it). Their relationship naturally is destroyed, but it spurs Anne to accept her sexuality by the end of the film.

** The show managed to subvert this somewhat. The first episode introduced Thelma, the main character's lesbian best friend. Then it had a demon murder her. Cut to her funeral, at which the priest is talking about how Thelma was very much her own individual and saying it was this individuality which left her isolated and led to her tragic death... at which point Thelma's ghost walks up beside the main character and says: "God, they're loving this. Don't be a dyke or you'll end up topping yourself." Thelma then goes on to be one of only two of the original cast to be left after the show's KillEmAll ending.

* ''Film/TheDamned'' shows the Nazi [=SA=] having a gay orgy, only to be massacred en masse by the [=SS=] the next morning.

* ''Film/BonnieAndBonnie'': After her relationship Kiki gets disclosed to Yara's brother, Yara is coerced into an arranged marriage by her father, and has to run away to escape this.

* ''Film/ButImACheerleader'': Megan, a God-fearing cheerleader who has never paid her homosexual tendencies any thought until being sent to the True Directions camp. While there, she admits the homosexuality that everyone but her had apparently seen, and falls in love with another of the True Directions members, Graham. But all the while, Megan, Graham, and all of the other campers are subjected to blatant homophobia. Megan's parents also become abusive in threatening to cut her off unless she becomes straight.

* ''Film/TheDamned'' takes this UpToEleven by showing the Nazi [=SA=] having a gay orgy, only to be massacred en masse by the [=SS=] the next morning.

* Played with in ''Film/{{Victim}}'' as Barrett kills himself to prevent him and his partner being outed, which would result in both their deaths after some public shaming.

* ''Literature/TheLoveAndLiesOfRukhsanaAli'': Rukhsana's mom reacts badly to finding her with her girlfriend. First she orders Ariana out after slapping her, then says Rukhsana disgusts her. When she tells Rukhsana's dad he blames it on them allowing her too much freedom then discusses conversion therapy. Rukhsana refuses to obey, he slaps her, the first time either of them has ever laid a hand on their daughter.

* In ''Film/BoyTown'', Carl dies when the film [[GenreShift decides it's a black comedy]] and [[spoiler:kills off the entire band in a plane crash]], ending the possibility of the relationship that was teased for him and making his coming out somewhat moot.

* The second season of ''Series/LukeCage'' reveals that Cormanche has feelings for Shades and that [[SituationalSexuality they had a relationship while in prison]], just moments before Shades kills him.

* Although not explicitly stated to be gay, Eli Wilkerson from ''VideoGame/StateOfDecay'' is one half of an implied male-on-male couple. After your first encounter with him, he catches the Black Fever out of nowhere and dies.

SubTrope to {{Gayngst}}, TransTribulations, IntersexTribulations, BuryYourGays and ComingOutStory, may happen alongside being ForcedOutOfTheCloset.

* ''Literature/KissOfTheSpiderWoman'', in which the gay protagonist demonstrates his new-found bravery by accepting a suicide mission to pass a message to political revolutionaries. They shoot him, thinking he's working for the government.

* In Audience Network's MMA drama ''Kingdom'', Nate is shot and killed in the penultimate episode, only having just accepted himself and come out to his family after three seasons of repression.

* In the ending of ''Manga/{{Blame}}'', Cibo and Sanakan are KilledOffForReal after [[HomosexualReproduction conceiving a child together]]. Before then, they each had "died" but been revived several times by transferring their consciousnesses to new bodies.

* ''ComicBook/PacificRimAftermath'': Hannibal Chau's bodyguard, Xue, is revealed to be gay and engaged to Chau's lead researcher, Elora, and is then gunned down three panels later by Chau himself in a ShootTheHostage scenario.

* Played with in ''Film/{{Victim}}'' as Barrett kills himself to prevent him and his partner being outed, which would result in both their deaths after some public shaming.
* ''Film/YourHighness'' gets extra special mention for Boremont, who reveals his love for Fabious, [[DyingDeclarationOfLove as Fabious is stabbing him]].

* ''Film/WhereTheTruthLies'': [[spoiler:Vince's suicide]] has elements of this, though not exactly in the right order: it occurs after Karen begins looking into Maureen's recorded tapes, which eventually leads to her learning about Vince's bisexuality.

* ''Film/BonnieAndBonnie'': After her relationship Kiki gets disclosed to Yara's brother, Yara is coerced into an arranged marriage by her father, and has to run away to escape this.

* In ''[[Literature/{{Divergent}} Insurgent]]'', Lynn comes out of the closet whilst being fatally wounded.

* ''Series/ControlZ'': After she's outed as transgender, Isabela gets bullied, insulted and ostracized (including losing most of her friends).

* In Audience Network's MMA drama ''Kingdom'', Nate is shot and killed in the penultimate episode, only having just accepted himself and come out to his family after 3 seasons of repression.

* ''Series/ShamelessUS'': Mickey, at the persistence of his boyfriend Ian, comes out of the closet in front of his homophobic father and his equally as terrible friends. This results in a bloody bar brawl with everyone involved.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Phantasmagoria}} 2'', Trevor is the last out of four characters to be murdered, and specifically because Curtis loved him the most. However, this is so he can die right after admitting that he loves Curtis and right before they can kiss. The [[SatelliteLoveInterest female love interest survives]], apparently remembering that she was, in fact, a character in the game after [[TenMinuteRetirement disappearing from the last half of it or so]].

* In ''VideoGame/SyphonFilterDarkMirror'', Mara and Elsa are revealed to be a lesbian couple and are subsequently killed.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has Nef, who naturally dies a horrible death as a result of her attraction to [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Morinth]]. She's dead before Shepard has even heard of her because Shepard's already hunting Morinth by that time.
* In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry6ShapeUpOrSlipOut'', taking the GayOption results in a NonStandardGameOver. Not that the result seemed rather bad, compared [[HaveANiceDeath to most things that cause game over]] in these games.
* Although not explicitly stated to be gay, Eli Wilkerson from ''VideoGame/StateOfDecay'' is one half of an implied male-on-male couple. After your first encounter with him, he catches the Black Fever out of nowhere and dies.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In the episode "Midnight", Sky Silvestry, the only character in the episode confirmed to be gay, is possessed and eventually killed.

An UsefulNotes/{{LGBT}} character chooses to come out, or is ForciblyOuted, from their [[ClosetGay figurative closet]] and is harmed or dies. The world is not a nice place, and once it is revealed they are LGBT+, things go badly wrong. For this trope, once a character has come out they become a CosmicPlaything, facing hardships from the natural world because they have dared to vocalize being queer.

* ''Film/TheTruthAboutJane'': After she gets outed as gay Jane suffers mockery by most other students plus a very hostile reaction from her parents and she even considers suicide as a result.

SubTrope to BuryYourGays and ComingOutStory, may happen alongside being ForcedOutOfTheCloset.

An UsefulNotes/{{LGBT}} character chooses to come out, or is ForciblyOuted, from their figurative closet and is harmed or dies. The world is not a nice place, and once it is revealed they are LGBT+, things go badly wrong. For this trope, once a character has come out they become a CosmicPlaything, facing hardships from the natural world because they have dared to vocalize being queer.

* ''Series/Supernatural'': An especially egregious example with Castiel. After twelve years of ShipTease with Dean Winchester, Cas [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove announces he has loved Dean all along]] and then is immediately dragged to [[DeaderThanDead the Empty]].