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19->''"Kudos for including such a well-developed gay character! Have you figured out how you're going to kill them yet?"''
20-->-- '''Blog/WorstMuse'''
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22This trope is the presentation of deaths of UsefulNotes/{{LGBT}} characters where these characters are nominally able to be viewed as ''more expendable'' than their heterosexual counterparts. In this way, the death is treated as exceptional in its circumstances. In [[TropesInAggregate aggregate]], queer characters are more likely to die than straight characters. Indeed, it may be because they seem to have less purpose compared to straight characters, or that the supposed natural conclusion of their story is an early death.
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24The reasons for this trope have evolved somewhat over the years. For a good while, it was because the DepravedHomosexual trope and its ilk pretty much limited portrayals of explicitly gay characters to villainous characters, or at least characters who weren't given much respect by the narrative. This was due to negative attitudes towards gay people and due to the MoralGuardians' [[MediaNotes/TheHaysCode Hays Code]], which did not allow gay people to be shown on screen unless it was part of a plot line that showed that they were wicked. This meant that most of them would either die or be punished by the end. Even somewhat sympathetic characters would usually receive punishment, as their sexuality was perceived as a negative trait (similar to how one would write a sympathetic drug addict). However, as sensitivity to gay people became more mainstream, this then transitioned into the TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth narrative, where stories would tackle the subject of homophobia and then depict LGBT characters as suffering victims who die tragic deaths in an uncaring world. The [[TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed AIDS crisis]] also contributed to this narrative, as the TragicAIDSStory became its own archetype, popularized by films like ''Film/{{Philadelphia}}''. And then there are the cases of ButNotTooGay or the BaitAndSwitchLesbians, where creators manage to get the romance going but quickly avoid showing it in detail by killing off one of the relevant characters.
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26Also known as Dead Lesbian Syndrome, though that name has largely fallen out of use post-2015 and [[PetPeeveTrope the media riots about overuse of the trope]]. And, as this public outcry restated, the problem isn't merely that gay characters are killed off: the problem is the tendency that gay characters are killed off in a story full of mostly straight characters, or when the characters are killed off because they are gay.
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28Can be seen as TruthInTelevision in some cases, as gay and lesbian people are at a substantially higher risk for suicide and assault — see the tropes GayngstInducedSuicide and HomophobicHateCrime. 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 TheEighties, still has an effect on more recent works). There may also be a higher prevalence of this trope in Period Fiction because of its supposed realism since historically there was lots of homophobic persecution -- though there ''was'' also acceptance, it would not have been one and the same as most Anglophone countries today.
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30However, sometimes gay characters die in fiction because, well, sometimes people die. There are many AnyoneCanDie stories: barring explicit differences in the treatments of the gay and straight deaths in these, it's not necessarily odd that the gay characters are dying. The occasional death of one in a CastFullOfGay is unlikely to be notable, either.
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32The [[InvertedTrope exact opposite]] is found in PreserveYourGays, which is often a reaction to this.
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34!!Specific variants:
35[[index]]
36* GayGuyDiesFirst: When the often only queer character dies early on, before straight characters.
37* GayngstInducedSuicide: When an LGBT+ character commits or attempts to commit suicide because of reasons connected to or caused by being LGBT.
38* HomophobicHateCrime: When a character is attacked and often murdered by homophobic characters.
39* OutOfTheClosetIntoTheFire: After a character comes out they are quickly killed, harmed, or cosmically punished.
40* TragicAIDSStory: The story involves the miseries of HIV/AIDS, often starring gay men, sometimes treated like a punishment for homosexuality.
41* VasquezAlwaysDies: The most lesbian-coded character, or the closest thing the work has to a butch character, always seems to get killed off, or has the most violent and drawn-out death.
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44!!'''As a {{Death Trope|s}}, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''
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46!!Examples:
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49[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
50* The one explicitly lesbian character -- PsychoLesbian Liang Qi -- in ''Anime/{{Canaan}}'' is killed off. In contrast, at least Canaan and Maria are [[HideYourLesbians heavily implied]] to love each other, but live perfectly fine.
51* ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' has Quanxi and two of her BattleHarem. While the series is [[AnyoneCanDie no stranger to killing off characters]], it catapults into this trope by occurring suddenly at the tail end of a StoryArc, immediately after one of them dispatched the last remaining threat in a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
52* ''Manga/{{Claudine}}'' is about Claude de Montesse, a trans man who was born and raised in 1900s France. Despite being the main character, Claude perishes at the end of the story by suicide, his decision to take his own life spurred on by his greatest love abandoning him for his older brother.
53* Rei Asaka/"Hana no Saint-Juste" in ''Manga/DearBrother'', although it 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 TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
54%%* In ''Manga/DevilmanLady'', when Jun's best friend/girlfriend Kazumi dies. This likely arose out of the changes from the Devilman Lady manga, where Asuka was Jun's lover. Also, Jun was older in the manga, being a schoolteacher instead of a model.
55%%* Parodied in episode 16 ("Take Back Love!") of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', where both Ropponmatsus fall in love with Hyatt and Excel 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 [[FirstGirlWins the first person they see]].
56* Franz d'Epinay, who was secretly and tragically in love with Albert de Morcerf in ''[[Anime/{{Gankutsuou}} Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo]]'', sacrifices his life to save Albert's and to deliver what is ultimately the fatal blow to the Count.
57* ''Manga/HoneyCrush'' had a different take on this: the lesbian main character is killed off in the first chapter but brought back as a ghost and not precluded from still getting a happy ending, though she does go to Heaven in the final chapter after confessing to Kyouko, so it's still a BittersweetEnding.
58%%* The ultimate fate of Gilbert in ''Manga/KazeToKiNoUta''.
59* ''Anime/LegendOfTheBlueWolves'': A less sympathetic version is implied to be Captain Continental who was supposedly killed by Leonard after he cut his penis off as revenge for him raping Jonathan.
60%%** Leonard. By Jonathan's hand, no less.
61* Maya in ''Manga/MayasFuneralProcession'' burns herself to death minutes after learning that her love interest Reina is [[BrotherSisterIncest really her half-sister]]. Reina marries a man not long afterwards.
62%%* Mimi and Sheshe of ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' are killed in the second arc by their own employer. It's much worse for them in the manga, where they're [[ImAHumanitarian eaten alive]] without warning, than in the anime, where their life force is simply absorbed after they [[HeelFaceTurn rebel]].
63* Subverted in ''Manga/TheMikosWordsAndTheWitchesIncantations'': after setting up the standard yuri DownerEnding with Tsumugi having to die right after learning about love, the plot does a twist, wherein Letty goes and [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu flips off the local god]], risking her life to become a deity herself -- all for Tsumugi's sake.
64%%* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'':
65%%** Tieria, who is strongly implied to be in love with the first Lockon Stratos, but Lockon was killed before anything could develop. Tieria himself later dies and then his mind not only survives but is uploaded into the super-computer VEDA.
66%%** Also, in Special Edition 1, a very lightly hinted gay relationship is made explicit between Alejandro and Ribbons, who turn out to be the BigBad of Seasons 1 and 2 respectively. More exactly, Ribbons was a male HoneyTrap and pretended to care for Alejandro, who ''was'' rather smitten with him . . . and then he kills him and takes over.
67* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Lead Crow and Aluminum Siren were AmbiguouslyGay in the anime. Like Kunzite and Zoisite before them, they die. Their sexuality is undetermined in the manga, but they never show interest in any girls, much less each other. [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight They don't even interact in that version]].
68%%** Kunzite and Zoisite
69%%* ''Manga/{{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 and her RomanticRunnerUp Kyougo Monou agreed to get married, 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 she took off with her son Kamui [[GuiltComplex because she felt too guilty for this]]; later, she died by bursting into flames to protect Kamui or more exactly, by becoming a HumanSacrifice of sorts, burning herself up to slow the global warming. The animated adaptation cut out their relationship completely, instead making Saya a loving wife to Kyougo.
70* The very first on-screen present day death in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' is Magne, a UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} woman.
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74* ''ComicBook/AndersonPsiDivision'': In "Half-Life", a [[CampGay transparently gay]] television host on pre-apocalypse Deadworld makes a pass at [[HangingJudge Judge Death]] during a live show because he likes the uniform. This pisses off Death enough that he immediately executes him.
75* Moondragon's death in Marvel's ''ComicBook/AnnihilationConquest'' series. Considering how many characters died in the series, what makes Moondragon's treatment notable was the sheer brutality of it. In ''Annihilation,'' ComicBook/{{Thanos}} kidnaps her, uses her as a hostage, rips her ear off, and presents the ear to her lover Phyla. She survives ''that'' series, but in ''Conquest'' she finds herself permanently turned into a dragon before ultimately dying in a HeroicSacrifice to protect Phyla. In a cruel twist, Moondragon later gets resurrected, just in time for Phyla to get KilledOffForReal during ''ComicBook/TheThanosImperative''. What makes it particularly annoying is that with Thanos, Star-Lord, Drax, and now ComicBook/{{Nova}} all having been brought back, Phyla's death is the only one that's stuck.
76%%* Happens twice in Peter Bagge's ''ComicBook/ApocalypseNerd''. First, there is the massacre at [=McNeely=] Ville, whose founders, the namesake himself and his lover were gunned down when a Native American gang invaded, stole all their supplies other, and burned down the commune while killing as many residents as possible. Later, some of the survivors of [=McNeeley=] Ville raided a women's only commune and killed all the (allegedly lesbian) residents, save for the ActionGirl who escapes with one of the male protagonists.
77%%* Played with in Creator/MarkMillar's last arc on ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'', which opens with the apparent deaths of openly-gay Apollo and Midnighter, but they both turn out to be alive. However, both the lesbian Rush and bisexual Teuton from the fake Authority end up being brutally killed by Midnighter during his RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
78%%* In ''ComicBook/BeforeWatchmen: Minutemen'', Hooded Justice was killed by accident because the killer thought he was a ruthless child murderer as the Comedian had framed him as one.
79* Subverted in ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', where one of the later arcs ''looked'' like it was playing this straight, seemingly killing off both Savant and Creote, two of the Birds' allies who were both in love with each other but hadn't gotten around to saying it. It turns out to be part of a plan to corner Oracle as Savant, who's suffering constant mental agony, plans to commit suicide and force her to watch. Creote had promised to help him die to put an end to his mental issues, but Oracle's able to convince them both to live. It's somewhat notable as this drew ire from the LGBT community, who had previously held the writer, Creator/GailSimone, to CreatorWorship levels, and the amount of backlash she got as a result of angry fans who didn't wait until the story had wrapped up led to her leaving previous community sites she heavily contributed to.
80* In ''ComicBook/{{Bloodstrike}}'', Kennedy Marx's origins involve this trope. Her abusive boyfriend caught her in bed with another woman, sliced the other woman apart while Kennedy was ForcedToWatch, and then bludgeoned Kennedy herself to death with a bowling ball. As luck would have it, she had latent superpowers, so her remains were claimed by Project Born Again, which resurrected her to serve as the second Fourplay.
81* PlayedWith in regards to ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}''. The WonderWomanWannabe, War Woman, is a lesbian woman who is in a relationship with an unnamed partner. [[spoiler:She is brutally killed off by Omni-man in issue 7 alongside the Guardians of the Globe]]. Other than her, there are only two named characters in the comic which are Rick Sheridan [[spoiler:and William Clockwell]], who are in a relationship, but are DemotedToExtra, giving the comic's LGBT representation little focus.
82* In ''ComicBook/BlueIsTheWarmestColor'', Clementine, the lesbian protagonist, dies at the end.
83* In a similar subversion, there was the ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006: ComicBook/{{Runaways}}[=/=]ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' team-up, where the Warden of the Cube has the brainwashed Noh-Var sent to bring in the Runaways. Being a super-powerful Kree Super Soldier, he's able to take down most of the team and starts the fight by attacking Xavin, Karolina, Wiccan, and Hulkling first and disabling each of them in a single hit, snapping Xavin's neck in doing so and seemingly killing them, while their body and the other three are taken to the Cube to be tortured. This gets kinda iffy, however, as Karolina is a lesbian, Xavin is her lover who's gender fluid (though during the story was taking the form of male), and Wiccan and Hulkling are one of Marvel's most prominent gay couples. While they all make it out alive, we are treated to a disturbing scene of Wiccan being forced to watch Teddy get cut up and vivisected while unable to do anything to stop it.
84* John Arcudi's run on ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' ended with the revelation that sometime after the end of Rachel Pollack's run on the series, Coagula, one of the only transgender superheroines in mainstream comics, was killed off by teammate Dorothy Spinner, for no other purpose than to make Robotman sad and create a premise to kill Dorothy. The two remained dead until DC's 2022 Pride special, where writers Devin Grayson and Jude Deluca brought both characters back... and then they were declared dead ''again'' in ''ComicBook/UnstoppableDoomPatrol'', for no other reason than to have Cliff repeatedly tormented by Dorothy and Kate's ghosts.
85* Creator/TerryMoore's various series often deal with human sexuality in a mature and intelligent fashion, exploring what might force a person to reassess their self-identification and what impact societal pressures and expectations have on human desires, but when ''ComicBook/{{Echo}}'' needs to show its villain beginning to lose his grasp on his sanity and [[VillainousBreakdown begin to break down]] he kills his boyfriend to keep him from leaving.
86* In ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'', Mind*@%! dies; while her erstwhile girlfriend Sistah Spooky blew up her superheroic career[[note]](even presuming that her powers are intact and she can restore her arm)[[/note]] in a [[DeathSeeker suicidal]] plan to rescue or ransom her from Hell.
87* Sunfire, a lesbian alternate version of Mariko Yashida and member of ComicBook/{{Exiles}}, is brutally slaughtered by a Brood-infected Mimic solely to kick off a sequence of events that saw Mimic demoted out of leadership of the team and Blink returning to become the new leader.
88* Marvel's ''Freedom Ring'' defied nearly all the gay stereotypes... other than the one about being allowed to live happily. Killed off within a month of Marvel E.I.C Creator/JoeQuesada touting him as the company's top gay hero. WordOfGod is that Freedom Ring "was always planned as an inexperienced hero who would get beaten up constantly and probably die. I wanted to comment on the fact that most superheroes get their powers and are okay at it... and that's not how life works. During working on the book, I was also noticing that most gay characters... are all about being gay. Straight characters are well-rounded characters who like chicks. So I wanted to do a well-rounded character who just happened to like dudes. Then I decided to combine the two ideas." ''Oops''. Robert Kirkman did apologize when he realized he had effectively killed off 20% of Marvel's gay male characters.
89* Subverted in ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', where it seems Red Racer, a gay Flash equivalent from Earth 36, will sacrifice himself as a homage to Crisis on Infinite Earths but instead comes back alive with an army of Flashes from across the Multiverse. Played completely straight in the follow-up Multiplicity from ''ComicBook/SupermanRebirth'', where he alone dies in the exact same way.
90* In ''ComicBook/TheOrder2007'', Henry Hellrung is forced to kill lesbian Mulholland Black after her powers go out of control.
91* Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'' had no problem killing The Brand, cutting off her story arc far too soon. Meanwhile, the way she died added no dignity to the moment.
92** The series on the whole plays with the trope; while the Brand appears to be ButchLesbian, there's no actual portrayal of her orientation before her death. Additionally, for every queer character that is killed (Doff, Izabel, Prince Robot IV, etc), the CastFullOfGay ensures an equal number survive (Petrichor, Gwendolyn, Velour). It becomes less "bury your gays" amd more AnyoneCanDie.
93* Knockout, one of the bad guys in DC's fantastic ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' died essentially offscreen between the first mini-series and the ongoing comic. Her lover Scandal Savage is left devastated although thankfully not insane or any more evil than before. Knockout was a "New God" and killed off with the rest in the ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' arc, so it gets a pass as her death didn't come off like such an afterthought within the confines of someone else's comic book or because of her lesbian relationship, and the writer, Creator/GailSimone, was not happy that the character had to die. It also helps that in the finale of ''Secret Six'' they go to Hell and get Knockout back, and it's shown in the reboot version of the series that she's in a quite happy [[{{Polyamory}} three-way]] marriage with Scandal and Liana, with a plan to start a family.
94* An unintentional version happens to Rotor's compatriot (and WordOfGay romantic interest) Cobar in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', once Ian Flynn took over for Ken Penders; Rotor is seen in a future arc chained up and bloodied by Shadow in a dungeon, looking destraught as Shadow strongly hints that he beat Cobar to death for not aiding in his regime. Unintended, as the Word of Gay relationship wasn't strongly alluded to by Penders beforehand, leaving Flynn to not know about it when he wrote it, intending to kill off what he thought was a redundant character.
95* ''COmicBook/StuckRubberBaby'': Poor, poor Sammy. there's also a mention early on of a bank president murdered by some young men who had claimed he was giving them funny looks, and who were subsequently let off scot free.
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99* In "Blood and Fire", an episode of ''[[WebVideo/StarTrekNewVoyages Star Trek: Phase II]]''. Kirk's redshirt nephew Peter is deeply in love with medical tech Alex Freeman, and the two plan to marry. (Everyone charmingly takes this for granted.) Alex ends up the last person alive on a doomed research ship, killing himself seconds before the Regulan bloodworms get to him. This was probably supposed to be reminiscent of Robert Tomlinson and Angela Martine in the TOS episode "Balance of Terror". The episode is based on a script David Gerrold wrote for ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' that [[GayPanic kept getting punted into the wastebasket]]. [[FairForItsDay For when the episode was originally envisioned, having gay characters in a relationship would be revolutionary, even if one of them died at the end]]. For the 21st century, [[UnfortunateImplications well]]…
100* In ''Fanfic/NewHopeUniversityMajorInMurder'', Katy Thorson, the Ultimate Lesbian Romance Author, contends that this trope is a key part of lesbian romance fiction, since most American lesbian romances ended with lesbians dead, insane, or in prison. She believes the trope is still a key part of the genre today, which is why all her stories have tragic endings. InUniverse, Katy once fell in love with an ill girl who sponsored her stories, but the girl succumbed to her illness two weeks after their relationship began. Sadly, this ends up happening to Katy's girlfriend Lucina, who commits murder partly out of a desire to spare Katy from having to do so herself and is executed in the fifth trial.
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104* The ''1919'' German film ''Film/DifferentFromTheOthers'' (''Anders als die Andern'') used this trope to deliberate effect. The main character gets thrown out of school, loses all of his clients, is blackmailed and eventually commits suicide. This was [[JustifiedTrope the whole point of the film]], which was genuinely trying to educate the public about the senseless persecution of gays, including a very real epidemic of suicide caused by {{Blackmail}}, and arguing for the abolition of the anti-gay laws that facilitated this. It included real-life sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld giving a lecture arguing that homosexuality was completely natural. At the end, he persuades the dead man's lover to stay alive and fight for change.
105* ''Film/AtomicBlonde'': Delphine, who enters a same-sex relationship with Lorraine, is brutally choked to death by Percival in the last act. The bisexual Lorraine, however, survives.
106* ''{{Film/Bent}}'': Given the story's [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust setting]], it makes sense. [[spoiler: Horst is shot by the guards, and then Max kills himself afterward.]]
107* ''Film/TheBestExoticMarigoldHotel'': Graham dies almost immediately after he locates his long-lost lover.
108* ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'' 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.
109* ''Film/BloodOfTheTribades'': The priests of Bathor are violently homophobic, killing everyone they believe to be lesbians. Both some woman playing in the lake together naked (who may be involved, though it's left unclear), along with [[spoiler:Élisabeth and Fantine, a definite lesbian couple]], are killed by them.
110* ''Film/BloodPi'': [[ZigZaggedTrope ZigZagged]]. Amber offs [[spoiler:two]] of the three gay characters in the movie.
111* ''Film/BonnieAndbonnie'': Kiki, a lesbian, is shot dead by the police toward the end, as it looks like she's about to shoot Bekim.
112* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' has the prince's male lover being murdered by [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade King Edward]] by throwing said lover out a tall window right in front of the prince. In real life, Gaveston was Prince Edward's favorite, but it's not known with certainty that they were lovers. Gaveston was eventually captured and executed, but [[FictionalizedDeathAccount not the same way]], and it had more to do with Edward's favoritism than explicitly with homosexuality.
113* There's a montage in the documentary ''Film/TheCelluloidCloset'' (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}}s or (most often) both.
114* ''{{Film/Chloe}}'': The ending for Chloe, who seems to be bisexual, when she falls from a window to her death not minutes after sharing a kiss with Catherine, and whom she previously had sex with.
115* More so in the film than in the book ''Film/CloudAtlas'': both the gay/bisexual characters do not make it to the end of their respective stories, while almost everyone else gets a happy ending (with the exception of the Sonmi storyline). In the book, the endings are somewhat more ambiguous, but it still counts.
116* ''Film/{{Cruising}}'' has a serial killer stalking New York City's gay leatherman subculture, and Al Pacino going undercover to stop this. In contrast to the acres of dead sexually active gays, Al's neighbor, Ted, is offered up as a contrast -- he has a steady boyfriend and hates the idea of cruising. He dies too though.
117* ''Film/TheDamned1969'' shows the Nazi SA having a gay orgy, only to be massacred en masse by the SS the next morning.
118* ''Film/{{Deathtrap}}'' kills both of its gay characters off-stage, then kills them again (by proxy) on-stage as characters in the play-within-the-film stolen by the sole surviving character, presumably straight (this character's orientation never comes up in narration or action, but straight is the statistically likely option).
119* ''Film/EloisesLover'': Àsia kills herself in anxiety over her mother learning that she's with Eloïse.
120* ''Film/EuropaEuropa'': The closeted gay soldier Robert, who befriends Solly (himself secretly a Jew), gets killed in combat. This is more justifiable than many such examples though as it's in a war, plus this was real.
121* The titular funeral in ''Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral'' is for one half of a gay couple. The eulogy delivered gets the main character thinking about love and marriage, setting up the climax (the other half of the gay couple survives and eventually finds someone new).
122* In ''Film/GirlHouse'' all three of the gay characters are killed off brutally.
123* ''Film/HalloweenKills'': Downplayed, as there is a gay couple, Big John and Little John, that is killed, but their deaths owe more to them living in the old Myers household -- and not getting the hell out of dodge after finding a bloody handprint on their backdoor.
124* ''Film/HeadInTheClouds'': Gilda, along with Mia, turn out to both be bisexual women who had a relationship once. Neither survives the film, while their straight male love interest Guy lives.
125* ''Film/TheHollowChild'': Emily, who came on to her best friend Samantha, gets brutally killed later. She is the only explicit LGBT+ character in the film.
126* ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'': Gay character Dr. Isaacs dies, but his partner survives.
127* ''Film/JennifersBody'': The bisexual villain protagonist Jennifer gets killed by Needy (while Needy's AmbiguouslyBi and lives-she's also the heroine).
128* ''Film/JuanOfTheDead'':
129** After [[spoiler:CampGay La China]] dies and turns into a zombie, Juan throws him off a building. But that is not enough, so later Juan bashes him over the head multiple times.
130** [[spoiler:La China's musclebound partner El Primo]] is ripped apart by a horde of zombies in the shelter.
131* ''Film/LandOfTheDead'' features an incredibly gratuitous scene, even considering some of what happens in the rest of the film, where two women are passionately making out until one of them is pulled through the wall by a bunch of zombies.
132* In the documentary ''The Lavender Lens: 100 Years of Celluloid Queers'', there's a very striking montage towards the end of gay accidental death, murder, and suicide scenes from various films, set to 'Another One Bites the Dust'. The film ends with a Bugs Bunny clip in which Bugs is suspected dead but revives and runs off wearing a tutu.
133* In Gerard Blain's ''Les Amis'', about an intergenerational gay relationship, the older man is killed in a car crash. Blain, however, maintained that he dies not because of his homosexuality but because it's his destiny.
134* Right at the end of ''L.I.E.'', pederast Big John is shot dead by a jealous boyfriend who thinks he's been replaced by a younger model.
135* ''Film/LostAndDelirious'' is all about this trope. [[StarCrossedLovers Central characters]] Paulie and Tory carry on a secret romantic relationship, which is effectively destroyed when Tory's sister finds out about their relationship, and Tory panics, breaks off the relationship, and tells her sister that Paulie raped her. The remainder of the film is all about Paulie's mental state deteriorating, which culminates in Paulie stabbing Tory's new boyfriend before throwing herself off of a roof, ending her own life.
136* ''Film/MaggieAndAnnie'': Maggie, the lead lesbian character, dies suddenly near the end. This is {{downplayed}} somewhat however as the other lead character, bisexual Annie, survives.
137* In both ''Film/MaryQueenOfScots1971'' and ''Film/MaryQueenOfScots2018'', filmed versions of UsefulNotes/MaryQueenOfScots's story, Mary's husband Lord Darnley and Mary's secretary David Rizzio are portrayed as gay or bisexual lovers, and both are gruesomely murdered as they both met that fate in real life.
138* ''Film/{{May}}'': May murders both the film's lesbians, Polly and Ambrosia. However, she's quite [[AmbiguouslyBi possibly bisexual herself]] (having had sex with Polly) and survives.
139* ''Film/NineDeadGayGuys'': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin All there in the title.]] The two protagonists, one straight and one gay, live.
140* In ''Nous étions un seul homme'' (''We Were One Man''), a German soldier on the run in occupied France and a French peasant he meets fall in love. The soldier is caught. The peasant, who's a little crazy, shoots him and, carrying the body, gets into a hole in the ground where he puts dead things so they can grow again.
141* ''Film/OneNightInOctober'': One of the scarecrow killer's victims is Charlie, who distracts him to let her girlfriend Kate get away.
142* ''Film/RabidGrannies'' zigzags this trope While the Grannies', er, Aunts', lesbian niece is one of their first victims, her girlfriend is one of the few survivors and is clearly presented as the hero of the movie.
143* ''Film/Requiem2021'': Mary, one of the two lesbians, is burned alive for witchcraft at the end, though her lover Evelyn survives to get revenge.
144* ''Film/TheRetreat2021'': Scotty and Connor, a gay couple, are both murdered on livestream. It's also later shown many others have been murdered before too. Indeed, this is the basis of the whole plot.
145* ''Film/TheRidgeGraveGirls'': Played straight with Mia Meadows, who has a girlfriend and [[OutOfTheClosetIntoTheFire dies after being crowned Prom Queen]]. This [[BuryYourGays exact trope]] is called out by the narrator Ther. However, the film then plays with the trope by having Ther, the next Prom Queen [[spoiler: realise that "burying yourself" is the only way out of the Prom Queen curse, and so Ther decides to "bury herself" in order to escape... and become their true self as a non-binary person.]]
146* ''{{Film/Sappho}}'': [[spoiler:Sappho]] kills herself in the finale after her female lover breaks things off with her.
147* ''Film/SaveMe'': Hinted at with Gayle's son Randy, who dies before the story begins, prompting her to get involved in ex-gay ministries.
148* ''Film/ASingleMan'': George's partner of sixteen years dies in a car accident eight months before the start of the film. By the end of the story, George himself dies due to a heart attack, right after an epiphany that stopped him from committing suicide out of unsustainable grief. He was so busy preparing for his death that day that he forgot to take the heart medicine keeping him alive.
149* In ''Smukke Dreng'' (''Pretty Boy''), a 13-year-old boy has a relationship with an astronomy professor who kicks him out when the professor's girlfriend comes home. The boy ends up semi-accidentally killing the man by throwing a rock at his head, sending him on a long fall.
150* ''Film/TrapForCinderella'': Do, who it turns out loved her female best friend Micky, is dead at the beginning. She's the only LGBT+ character in the film. Nonetheless, she's shown throughout most of the film as an essential PosthumousCharacter via Micky's flashbacks.
151* ''Film/TurkeyShoot'': Thatcher announces that while (non-reproductive) sex is allowed among the prisoners, same-sex relations are forbidden and punishable by death. Jennifer, who's implied to be a lesbian, is also killed near the end.
152* ''Film/VForVendetta'':
153** Valerie, a lesbian actress who was in the cell beside V's while they were used as test subjects in Larkhill. She didn't survive these tests, but he did. Also her imprisonment was due to being queer in the first place -- the regime rounded them all up. However, unlike in many cases, this is the point of the segment, to help highlight Norsefire's evil as it persecuted LGBT people just for existing, and she relates her experience later in a letter to V (without actually knowing who he is) along with wishing her love to him as a fellow human being, something which gave him strength (then Evey later, who gets it in a recreation of the situation). This is about the most positive use of the trope that can happen.
154** Gordon, who's gay and in the closet as the result of this persecution, is also killed for having a Quran in his house which the secret police find after they raided it because he insulted Sutler.
155* ''Film/Victim1961'': "Boy" Barret kills himself rather than reveal his lover's involvement with him, as it could ruin his life and career.
156* In the fantasy-horror ''Film/Warlock1989'', the main character's gay roommate is killed off quite early and in brutal fashion by the Warlock.
157* ''Film/WerewolvesWithin'': Joaquim and Devon are killed at different points in the movie. Devon by [[spoiler:being attacked by the werewolf]], and Joaquim by [[spoiler:shooting the gas tower display to blow it up, killing Parker [[HeroicSacrifice and himself in the process]]]].
158* ''Film/WithAKissIDie'': Juliet and Farryn die at the end, with the former bi, the latter either bi or gay. Of course, being based on ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', it was pretty inevitable.
159* Both Gary and Luis, the gay couple in the main cast of ''Film/WrongTurn2021'' end up dead, the first one as the GayGuyDiesFirst trope and the second as a MercyKill.
160* In ''Film/YouMightBeTheKiller'', Nancy mentions that she wants to go to culinary school with her girlfriend. She's murdered by the killer almost immediately afterwards. But it ''is'' a SlasherMovie, and [[spoiler: all but one of the straight characters end up dead, undead, or possessed by the evil mask as well.]]
161* ''Film/YourHighness'' gets extra special mention for Boremont, who reveals his love for Fabious, [[DyingDeclarationOfLove as Fabious is stabbing him]].
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165* The Roman historian Tacitus claimed in his books that some German tribes practiced this ''literally'' with men caught having sex together, [[BuriedAlive burying them alive]].
166* In ''Literature/AfterDoomsday'' by Poul Anderson, a crewman on a spaceship is murdered in cold blood for proposing to another. The murderer? He isn't sanctioned and will have a HeroicSacrifice later on.
167* In ''Literature/{{Armada}}'', Shin and Milo are some of the first casualties of the alien invasion. They die just a few hours after [[PreClimaxClimax consummating their relationship]], while trying to [[YouShallNotPass help the other heroes get away]]. Only straight characters survive in the end.
168* In ''Literature/TheAsylumForWaywardVictorianGirls'', Veronica and Emily fall in love. Veronica is killed quite shortly after.
169* In Sylvia Plath's ''Literature/TheBellJar'', Esther's friend Joan is gay, or at least bisexual. That plus various other life stresses lead to her coming to the same hospital as Esther. She later hangs herself. But Esther describes other lesbians, like the famous woman poet at her college, who are "weird," but doing all right.
170* In ''Literature/TheBigSleep'' by Raymond Chandler, the handsome young male lover of Arthur Geiger, Carol Lundgren, is perceived as a SissyVillain by the PrivateDetective Philip Marlowe, who decisively beats Carol in a scuffle before arresting him. Arthur Geiger dies and Carol gets locked away for homicide, leaving both characters fairly well buried.
171* Hal Duncan's ''Literature/TheBookOfAllHours'' 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 [[EarnYourHappyEnding save their Pucks]] in the end.
172* ''Literature/TheBookOfLostThings'' 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.
173* In ''Breaking Sky,'' by Cori [=McCarthy=], Pippin is the only major character to die. While he's dying, he lampshades that he "hates these movies because the gay guy always dies first".
174* In Ken Follett's "Winter of the World", book two of ''Literature/TheCenturyTrilogy'', Chuck Dewar, who is gay, is killed at the battle of Guadalcanal.
175* In ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', it is inverted. Eugenie Danglars is as transparently a lesbian as she could be in a 19th-century novel, but she is the only one of the children of Dante's enemies to escape unscathed from Monte Cristo's schemes and achieves a happy ending through her own agency, running off into the sunset with her girlfriend. In 1844!
176* A plot point in ''Darkship Thieves''. Max kept his orientation a secret, so his [[GrandTheftMe identity thief]] doesn't realize he's [[OutOfCharacterAlert given himself away]] by ignoring the lover, Nat. Still, the book ends with one gay man dead and the other consumed by his need for revenge.
177* ''Der Tod in Venedig'' (''Death in Venice'') (1912). Aschenbach expires on the beach, gazing at Tadzio.
178* Subverted in ''Literature/TheDolorousAdventureOfBrotherBanenose'', where Stephfi is horribly killed off at the climax, but then is restored to life in the denuoemont by her lover Fairuza after the latter becomes a PhysicalGod.
179* ''The Front Runner'', while being one of the first modern novels to treat gays as people, still follows this trope.
180* Teenage Harold's heroic death in ''The Garden God'' (1905). He dies saving his friend/lover's life; it's implied that this wipes out the 'sin' of his previous homosexual acts.
181* Pippa (of Libba Bray's ''Literature/GemmaDoyle'' trilogy) dies at the end of the first book, leading to her gradually turning into a monster in the realms before she is KilledOffForReal in the third book.
182* ''Literature/{{Ghoul}}'': Jack Ohm's bomb targets are a gay bathhouse and an HIV support group.
183* Subverted in ''Literature/TheGoblinEmperor'': a gay man confesses that his actions led to the death of his lover. He himself survives. Mentioned in dialogue is a lesbian goblin pirate who apparently enjoys perfect health at the end of the novel. Then there is also a rapist of 15-year-old boys, [[spoiler: who is killed while attempting to commit a different crime]], but it is debatable whether he can be considered gay; perhaps he's just an opportunistic child rapist.
184* In Creator/IanFleming's novel ''Literature/{{Goldfinger}}'', a woman who falls in love with Pussy Galore is contemptuously killed off near the end of the book.
185* In ''The Great Rift,'' by Edward W. Robertson, a male council member is discovered to be sending and receiving encrypted love letters to/from another man. Shortly afterwards, the council member dies in battle off-screen.
186* In ''Literature/HalfWorld'' by Hiromi Goto, [[CoolOldLady Ms. Wei's]] lover Nora Stein was killed in a burglary before the book begins. Ms. Wei is almost DrivenToSuicide but decides not to jump in front of a car because she doesn't want to cause the driver trouble.
187* ''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale'':
188** Or rather "[[DeadGuyOnDisplay leave your gays hanging on the gibbet]] as a warning to others." "Gender treachery" in Gilead is punishable by death, along with many other "[[AllCrimesAreEqual crimes]]."
189** Jezebels -- some of whom are lesbian -- are prostitutes for Commanders and their friends and [[PutOnABus are sent]] to [[PenalColony the Colonies]] once their usefulness for sex is over, as the Unwomen[[note]]Women -- of whom some are lesbian -- who are incapable of social integration within the Republic's strict gender divisions.[[/note]].
190* Creator/PerryMoore wrote his young adult novel ''Literature/{{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.
191* In the ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' trilogy, the angel Balthamos -- half of a canon gay couple with Baruch -- is one of several major characters to die. However, a prominent theme in the third book is how the Dust[[note]]elementary particle[[/note]] from people's bodies spreads across the universe and allows for metaphysical reunion with loved ones. Since the angels are made entirely of Dust, it's possible Balthamos and Baruch get a happy ending after all.
192* Played with in the ''House of Night'' series, which portrays gay relationships positively (if unrealistically/stereotypically). Jack is killed by Neferet as a sacrifice to Darkness since he is a "pure" soul. While this is completely against the homosexuality = sin mentality of many of the other examples of this trope, it still prevents Jack and his boyfriend Damien from getting a happy ending.
193* The Mina Davis books ''Literature/HungoverAndHandcuffed'' and ''Literature/AssholeYakuzaBoyfriend'' are kind of an odd case; in the first one, it seems like Lucy is a victim of this, but the sequel and WordOfGod establish a CastFullOfGay, and dead (implicitly) straight characters dramatically outnumber dead LGBT characters, especially in proportion to the number of both in the books.
194* 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.
195* In Creator/RobertAntonWilson's ''[[Literature/{{Illuminatus}} The Historical Illuminatus II]] -- The Widow's Son'', Edward Babcock lives through Hell at Eton when the School launches a witch-hunt to find and detect actively gay pupils. Wilson describes a Gestapo-like interrogation of all pupils who are called, one by one, in front of a panel of teachers and urged to confess to the cardinal and disgusting sin of sodomy, so that they can repent and their souls may be saved before God. Knowing to confess to being gay means expulsion, disgrace, and lifelong ostracism, Babcock bluffs and lies his way out of it, although he is both frightened and intimidated. After the first flush of elation at having successfully lied to his teachers, he is pulled up cold by the appalling realization his lover is yet to be questioned. As the boys are being called in by alphabetical order, he realizes Geoffrey Wildeblood will have a long agonizing wait... eventually he discovers Geoffrey has fled the school and has killed himself, rather than face shame and disgrace.
196* In ''[[Literature/{{Divergent}} Insurgent]]'', Lynn comes out of the closet after being fatally wounded.
197* Partially subverted in Creator/ChinaMieville's ''Literature/IronCouncil'': 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.
198* In Ken Follett's UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo thriller ''Literature/{{Jackdaws}}'', three members of the eponymous RagtagBunchOfMisfits are homosexual; they all die, two [[TooDumbToLive incredibly stupidly]]. Of the three heterosexual members (four, counting Paul), only one dies.
199* ''Literature/KissOfTheSpiderWoman'', in which the trans woman protagonist demonstrates her newfound bravery by accepting a suicide mission to pass a message to political revolutionaries. The same thing occurs in the movie, with the protagonist becoming a [[AdaptationalSexuality homosexual]], [[AdaptationalGenderIdentity cis man]].
200* ''Literature/KushielsLegacy'': Despite the series taking place in a society where homosexual love is celebrated alongside heterosexual love, gay characters either die, [[spoiler: like Alcuin, Roland, and Delaunay]] or live in the closet/straight marriages of convenience [[spoiler: like Lucius and Ricchardo, though neither are from Terre d'Ange and would be disinherited/slandered for being gay.]] The one gay relationship that lasts happens in the OffstageWaitingRoom [[spoiler: with Ti-Phillipe and Hughes]]. This tends to spark a lot of debate in the fanbase. Bisexuals (this includes two of the three protagonists) largely survive.
201* In ''Literature/TheLastWerewolf'', Harley, Jake's gay familiar, is killed off very early on. However, it's worth noting that EveryoneIsBi unless explicitly proven otherwise, and the trilogy's bisexual characters have a better survival rate. Bury Your Monosexuals, perhaps?
202* In the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book series, closet lesbian and StrawFeminist Verna Zee gets killed by the Wrath Of The Lamb earthquake in the book ''Nicolae''. In the prequel novels, the Antichrist villain Nicolae Carpathia has his two biological fathers, who were both gay, killed off.
203* Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's ''Literature/TheLongEarth'': The end of Book 1 ends with nuclear fallout rendering the city of Datum Madison uninhabitable. Book 2 picks up ten years later, and Monica Jansson, the series's only openly gay character, is dying of radiation poisoning. Possibly {{justified|Trope}} in that she exceeded the amount of time she was supposed to spend working Search and Rescue, but it's implied that so did Joshua and Sally, neither of whom are shown suffering any ill effects.
204* ''Literature/TheLunacyOfDukeVenomania'': While a [[AnyoneCanDie significant majority of characters]] in the Music/EvilliousChronicles die regardless of orientation, this novel gives a clear example in Lolan Eve, a [[BlackGirlDiesFirst dark-skinned]] lesbian.[[note]]Almost every other victim is based on Vocaloids who are light-skinned, if not explicitly portrayed as such in illustrations. Lolan, in contrast, is repeatedly exotified for her appearance even in narration.[[/note]] Of all the women kidnapped and raped by the titular duke, she is the only one who dies in captivity, her life energy stolen by a demon. While the epilogue states that several women died shortly after escaping, none of them are identified in narration.[[note]][[spoiler:Mikulia]]'s off-screen death isn't revealed until several novels later, and even then she survived for at least a year and may have died of unrelated causes.[[/note]] Furthermore, Lolan's death is in part ''because'' she's a lesbian, as the toll of being brainwashed into [[LovePotion "loving"]] a man weakened her spirit and made her more vulnerable to the demon.
205* In Ursula Zilinsky's ''Middle Ground'', Johannes von Svestrom's lover Gabriel is killed in a burning tank and Svestrom [[DeathSeeker acquires a death wish]], which only ends up winning him a lot of medals for bravery in combat. Svestrom intends to shoot himself until he meets and loves Tyl von Pankow, Gabriel's nephew. The end of the book is ostensibly happy, with Tyl going to Svestrom, but you never see him arrive and he's been told that he has a 'short life-line' on his palm.
206* In Beth Revis's ''A Million Suns'', Elder's second and third in command are implied to be lovers. One gets murdered with Phylus patches and the other gets sucked into space.
207* ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'', in which all three main characters (Dorian Gray, Basil Hallward, and Henry Wotton) are heavily implied to be gay or bisexual, ends with two of them dead, Basil -- the more obviously gay one -- murdered by Dorian, who later effectively commits suicide. Like many of Creator/OscarWilde's works, this likely [[TruthInTelevision reflects the difficulties of being a gay man in Victorian England]] (Wilde himself eventually died of an infection contracted during his imprisonment for "gross indecency" -- i.e. having sex with men).
208* Creator/AnthonyPrice's long-running series of spy thrillers contain a single openly gay character, the British agent Aske, who is introduced in ''The Old Vengeful'' and dies in the final chapter of the same novel.
209* Redfern Jon Barrett's alternate history novel ''Literature/ProudPinkSky'' is set in the world's first gay state, and sees several characters killed in a terrorist attack at the story's climax.
210* C.J.L. Almquist's ''The Queen's Tiara'', which is set in Sweden in 1792, has Tintomara, who pretty much personifies AttractiveBentGender. 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 DuelToTheDeath over her, the sisters go insane, and Tintomara herself is eventually killed for her refusal to pick a gender role and stick with it.
211* Defied in ''Literature/RavellingWrath''. Rinn and Yali, a lesbian couple, get chosen by the gods to be the Blood Child and the Farseer, when EVERY Blood Child and Farseer for the last 70 years has died. But Rinn and Yali won't. From [[https://www.elidupree.com/ravelling-wrath/discussion the author's notes for Chapter 1]]:
212--> I can't tell you too much more because SPOILERS!!!!, but there's one thing I can promise you: Rinn and Yali will both survive the entire story. We're purposefully defying [[BuryYourGays (TV Tropes link) that trope where gay characters die instead of getting a happy ending together]]. Seriously, that trope is awful.
213* ''Literature/SirenaSelena'': In her POV chapter, Martha Divine mentions drag queens that lost their lives to AIDS or to violence. This applies to Valentina Frenesí, the first person who took in Sirena.
214* A particularly grotesque version of this in Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Song Master'': Josif, who is bisexual, marries female Kyaren; they have a happy marriage except he warns her that he's attracted to the inhumanly gorgeous male protagonist, Ansset. She tells him that that's fine, she doesn't mind if he sleeps with Ansset; but he still continues to worry about it. Ansset and Josif do end up getting together. Unfortunately, treatments Ansset received as a boy soprano, to delay puberty, cause a weird chemical reaction, making sex intolerantly painful. Josif is hunted down and castrated as punishment for "raping" Ansset. Josif then dies. His wife remarries the next day and in the epilogue is said to be much happier in this more peaceful relationship.
215* ''Literature/TheStand'': True to many of the works of Creator/StephenKing, there are few gay/bi characters, and they all meet pretty horrible ends. Kit Bradenton, The Kid, Trashcan Man, and Dayna all get memorable deaths.
216* Subverted in Lynn Hall's ''Sticks and Stones'', [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201106023850/https://mondomolly.wordpress.com/2020/02/02/sticks-and-stones-by-lynn-hall/ much to Mondo Molly's delighted surprise]]. The premise reads like a gender-flipped version of ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour'' with two men, Tom and Ward, who have their reputation destroyed by rumors that their close friendship may be something more and one of them (Ward) turning out to be genuinely gay and in love with his friend. Tom, who's less certain about his sexuality, finds out that his classmate Floyd spread the rumors just to tear him down and deliberately crashes his car with the two of them inside it. Tragic ending, right? Not so fast -- Tom wakes up in the hospital and it turns out that ''Floyd'' is the one who died and Ward is there to greet Tom.
217-->'''Mondo Molly:''' Honestly? I feel slightly morally conflicted about how gleeful I am that Floyd got killed off. But he was really terrible. Also, pretty excited about the idea of an alternative universe where instead of "bury your gays" the trope was "[[LaserGuidedKarma malicious gossip punished by sudden death]]."
218* Creator/RosemarySutcliff wrote historical novels stuffed full of homoeroticism but had only three explicitly gay characters. All three are minor:
219** Two of them, in ''Literature/SwordAtSunset'', are heroic warriors whose love inspires them to greater heroism. However, one of them dies nobly in battle, whereat the other feels suicidal and ends up dying too, saving everybody's life in the process. Mind you, this was published in 1963.
220** In ''The Flowers of Adonis'' (1969), the otherwise heterosexual Arcadius falls in love with a fellow soldier, who immediately dies off-screen between that scene and the next.
221** The (heavily implied) romantic relationship between Thomas Keith and Tussun Bey in ''Blood and Sand'' ends with their bloody deaths, and the suicide of Thomas' wife. To be fair, a lot of heterosexual characters die in Sutcliff's novels also -- she wrote a lot of wars.
222* In Terry Goodkind's ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' 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.
223* In ''Literature/TheTraitorBaruCormorant'', the protagonist Baru's lover Tain Hu is executed in the final scene, with Baru choosing not to save her so as not to imperil her standing with the empire she serves.
224* In ''[[Literature/BlackTideRising Under a Graveyard Sky]]'', a gay cop is introduced, given some backstory, and then killed by the SyntheticPlague. What happens to his husband is unrevealed but considering he's in the middle of a ZombieApocalypse, his chances aren't good.
225* In the ''[[Literature/WhateleyUniverse Whateley Academy Universe]]'', Bradley Collingsworth (a.k.a., Apathy) isn't introduced until he's implicated in several incidents, just as he's reported missing. Turns out that he was killed for outliving his usefulness to the Big Bad. That usefulness only existed because he could be blackmailed over his sexuality.
226* Carol Plum-Ucci's ''What Happened to Lani Garver'' is built around this trope, although it's justified in that one of the major themes of the book is to bring attention to homophobic hate crimes. Also, it's strongly implied that Lani is actually an angel, which may change things a bit.
227* Subverted in ''Literature/TheZodiacSeries'': the lesbian Brynda survives to the end ([[AnyoneCanDie rather rare in these books]]) and is even mentioned to have gotten married in the epilogue. [[spoiler:Played somewhat straighter for [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Ophiuchus]] and [[WellIntentionedExtremist Aquarius]].]]
228* In The ''Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy'', the main character is both gay and DoomedByCanon. While Vanyel goes through some angst over being gay in a medieval-era fantasy world, his sexuality had nothing to do with his tragic death - it would have happened either way. It's heavily implied in later-set books that Vanyel's outrageous heroics while alive were responsible for a huge advance in acceptance of same-sex relationships in his home country, especially after his death.
229* Lesbians Barbara and Shirley are among the first victims in ''Literature/TheFungus'', killed by an infestation of the FesteringFungus in their bed after [[SexSignalsDeath having had sex]].
230* In ''Literature/{{Slant}}'', a malevolent AI hacks into a yox feed being shared by porn stars Alice and Minstrel, in an attempt to kill Alice. Alice, who is straight, survives, but Minstrel, who is gay, does not.
231* ''Literature/{{Dragonvarld}}'': Melisande it appears is a bisexual woman, having a female lover, Bellona, then feeling attracted to Edward too. She dies at the end of the first book, the only main character who does. Bellona raises her son as Melisande wished, but then gets killed in the next book herself.
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235* ''Series/The100'': In Season 3, Lexa is accidentally killed by a bullet meant for her love interest Clarke, a short time after they reconciled and consummated their relationship. In the season finale, she [[BackFromTheDead returns]] as part of an [[ArtificialIntelligence A.I]] and appears in the [[{{Cyberspace}} City of Light]] to help Clarke defeat A.L.I.E. She is given a climatic sendoff [[BolivianArmyEnding when she charges against A.L.I.E.'s army]] so that Clarke can get to the killswitch to shut off A.L.I.E.
236* Played with in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''. Victoria Hand dies in Season 1, and Isabelle Hartley dies in the first episode of Season 2. The pair dated in the comics, but the showrunners decided not to explicitly reveal them to be gay here because of the UnfortunateImplications of killing them both off, making it essentially a case of Hide Your Lesbians. However, a later episode featured a flashback to the events of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', in which Hartley mentions having checked in on Hand, referring to her as [[AffectionateNickname "Vicki"]].
237* ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' gave us Beverly [=LaSalle=]. She shows up as a female impersonator to whom Archie give mouth-to-mouth then returns for a second episode where dating her is used as a means to humiliate a friend of Archie's in a prank war. In her third and final appearance, her brutal (and off-screen) murder near Christmas is a test of Edith's faith.
238* ''Series/AllyMcBeal'' had a VerySpecialEpisode guest-starring Wilson Cruz from ''Series/MySoCalledLife'' as an AttractiveBentGender [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Magical Prostitute]], who died at the end of the episode.
239* In the original book and movie of ''Series/TheAndromedaStrain'', Dr. Hall is straight and lives. In the 2008 miniseries adaptation, he is replaced by Major Keane, who is gay and dies.
240* ''Series/AnotherPeriod'' puts a comic (and ''wildly'' convoluted) spin on the trope. Turn-of-the-century debutantes Lillian and Beatrice Bellacourt are both married. Both of their husbands are not only flagrantly gay but having an affair with each other. At one point, the sisters concoct a scheme to lose said husbands: they will be paid several million dollars to disappear, be declared legally dead, and allow the sisters to remarry. The husbands "disappear" only as far as the guest house, then accidentally show up during their own funeral.
241* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Fan favorite Sara Lance was killed in the Season 3 opener. ''Everything'' about this plot pissed off fans to no end, from killing off a bisexual character [[DroppedABridgeOnHim with no warning]], to the way the mystery of who killed her was drawn out, to the ultimate resolution of the mystery, and the way the other characters handled the death. Eventually the writers bowed to fan complaints and had Sara resurrected and restored in a multi-episode arc, which led to Sara becoming one of the stars of a new spin-off, ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow''.
242* In ''Series/TheAssassinationOfGianniVersace'', not only is nearly every major gay character killed off over the course of the series but Lee Miglin is re-imagined as a closeted gay man for the sole purpose of making his death "fit" the pattern of Andrew Cunanan's murder spree.
243* On ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns'', Reid (one half of the show's gay couple) died after his car was hit by a train and his heart is going to be used to save someone else. To add insult to injury, with Luke (Reid's boyfriend) heartbroken and Noah (Luke's ex) rejected, the show's three gay characters as essentially the only ones without a happy ending. Reid also died before he and Luke could consummate their relationship.
244* ''Series/BabylonFive'', 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 were together before the episode in which Talia's personality is wiped, which is called "death". But had the [[RealLifeWritesThePlot actress playing Talia not]] left the show, [[ChekhovsGun Kosh had plans to make it better]].
245* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'':
246** 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 a dissident element 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. It is also worth noting that his relationship with Hoshi was only revealed in a webisode, and not mentioned in the show proper.
247** Admiral Cain's death. According to the DVDCommentary for "Pegasus" this was ''not'' intentional. When Michelle Forbes read the line "She ate at our table..." she gave it an extra personal touch that the producers decided to build on in "Razor", making it a retroactive example of this trope.
248* ''Series/BigSky'': Criminal duo/couple Snail and Paul appear in only one episode, as both die before it's over.
249* ''Series/TheBill''. Lance Powell, murdered. Juliet Becker, murdered. Luke Ashton, large scale-heartbreak. Gemma Osbourne, suffers GBH. Thankfully, Paul Marquess has gone...
250* ''Series/BlackMirror'': [[Recap/BlackMirrorSanJunipero "San Junipero"]] provides a unique subversion in which the female couple, Yorkie and Kelly, both die but their deaths ensure that they achieve immortality through their minds being uploaded into a virtual world. As a result, they get to live together for eternity as a married couple and get a happy ending.
251* The trope is subverted on ''Series/BlackSails'': Captain Flint's backstory is that his lover Thomas Hamilton killed himself in prison, leading Flint to his campaign against the British Empire, but in the final episode he learns that Thomas is alive and gives up his war to be reunited with him.
252* ''Series/{{Blindspot}}'':
253** Bethany Mayfair was revealed to be a lesbian, but the same episode also reveals that the reason she's not very public about this is that her former girlfriend was deeply involved in the Daylight program and killed herself after fearing it would be exposed.
254** It later turns out that Mayfair's ex is still alive; she faked her death to flee the country. Bethany is not pleased when she finds out.
255** Played straight with Mayfair's new girlfriend, who is brutally murdered.
256** Mayfair herself dies when, while confronting Jane about betraying the team, she is shot in the back by Oscar, though justified as her death leads to Jane turning against Oscar and leads to the team finding out that Jane was a mole. The writers themselves have stated that in the light of the bury your gays trope controversy they would have made adjustments to her death but it was too late to do so. In fact, another show had gotten a ''lot'' of flack about it at nearly the time they planned this, resulting in an OhCrap moment for the writers, but keeping Mayfair purely because of that would've thrown off their plans for the show too much. The show gets less hate for it than some, though, because it has other LGBT characters who survive.
257* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
258** Larry, the only ''confirmed'' gay man ever on the show, was killed in the battle against The Mayor in "Graduation Day".
259--->Willow: '''Amy. One: Larry's gay. Two: Larry's dead.'''
260** Tara, Willow's long-time girlfriend, was shot and killed by Warren Mears, right after the two of them have made heartfelt admissions and reaffirmed their love for each other, and right after Tara was added to the show's opening credits despite already being on the show for over two seasons. WordOfGod is that Tara's death was solely a consequence of her being Willow's LoveInterest -- had Oz still been around, he would have died in her place. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen There were plans]] to bring Tara back in Season 7, but they fell through, as Creator/AmberBenson was unavailable.
261* In ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'', the only LGBT regular character is Angela, Jimmy Darmody's bisexual -- though lesbian-leaning -- wife. She and her lover are mistakenly killed by Manny Horvitz, who'd intended to kill Jimmy, and is surprised to find who Angela's partner is.
262* ''Series/{{Bramwell}}'': Frederick, who was initially the WholesomeCrossdresser, gets hit by a carriage, gets his throat torn open with a smashed bottle by a drunken Thrift patient, gets sent away to a religious institution and then dies of infection. The religious institution seems to subvert its own trope somewhat with the master being portrayed, if not truly sympathetically, then certainly as permitting a last reconciliation between Frederick and Charles Sheldon without intruding on their private grief. The master delivers a powerful sermon on forgiveness, which is a powerful bit of writing in its own right and averts the [[TheFundamentalist straw fundamentalist]] stereotype quite significantly.
263* In ''Series/{{Charite}}'', deaconess Sister Therese falls in love with nurse Ida and then gets tuberculosis. She's not the only laborer in the hospital who gets seriously ill, but she's the only one who dies, and she considers it a punishment from God for her "unnatural feelings".
264* There has been only one confirmed lesbian couple in ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}''. In a show set in ''UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco'', no less. Not only are they very minor characters, one of them naturally gets killed.
265* In ''Series/ChicagoFire'', the first regular staff character killed off was the first (and, until series 8, only) LGBT character, Leslie Elizabeth Shay.
266* The ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' Episode "[[Recap/ColumboS03E01 Lovely but Letha]]l" has character Shirley Blaine swoon for Viveca Scott only to get drugged via cigarette and die in a car accident. To be fair, she ''was'' trying to blackmail Viveca [[BlackmailBackfire which is almost never a good idea on this show.]]
267* ''Series/CoronationStreet'' saw fan-favourite couple Kate Connor and Rana Habeeb involved in a rather on-the-nose instance of this trope in March 2019, killing off Rana by literally burying her in rubble from a collapsed building, on their wedding day, complete with dress.
268** This also angered a lot of fans because only a few years before in June 2015, Sophie Webster's girlfriend Maddie Heath was killed off in an explosion at the Builder's Yard due to a fire in Victoria Court.
269* ''Series/ColdCase'':
270** In the 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.
271** The Season 1 episode, "A Time to Hate", features the fatal beating of a college baseball star outside an underground club after a raid. And then there's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViGh9C2zMXU heartbreaking ending scene...]]
272** "Best Friends" involves a lesbian couple in the 1930s, one white, one black. The black woman drowned, with it turning out both had been attacked and run off the road by Klansmen outraged at their relationship.
273** "Boy Crazy" has a mental patient who died mysteriously in the '60s. It turns out they were there due to gender non-conformity (either being a transgender boy or tomboyish girl, it's never made clear), then subject to very excessive ECT treatment and rendered catatonic for defiance. They were then euthanized by another patient, in a blatant {{shout out}} to ''Film/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest''.
274** In "Daniela" the titular character, a young trans woman, killed herself when her boyfriend's father made him break up with her.
275* ''Series/Cursed2020'': Morgana's lover Celia is killed off in the same episode she was introduced, although her ghost continues to show up on behalf of the Cailleach, who teaches Morgana magic.
276* ''Series/DarkAngel''. Original Cindy's one serious girlfriend onscreen, Diamond, dies of being used as a disease lab rat. At least she took her murderer with her. Original Cindy herself survived, however.
277* ''Series/DasBoot'': Simone and Carla, the show's two queer characters (a couple too) are killed off.
278* ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'' celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with a gruesome serial killer story and the gratuitous murder of legacy gay character Will Horton, after which his husband was PutOnABus. There was ferocious backlash from cast members, the soap press, and fans, many of whom thought the moment was an obvious attempt to appease conservative viewers who had returned for the 50th Anniversary. Ratings went down after a brief exploitation bump, and after a few years, Will was brought back from the dead. The new head writer at that time admitted Will was being resurrected to repair some of the damage to the show's reputation.
279* ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' has Adam, a trans boy, who is seemingly about to start a storyline about him taking hormones to transition when he is killed in a car accident for AnAesop [[SafeDrivingAesop about texting and driving]].
280* ''Series/DirtySexyMoney'' killed off its transgender character Carmelita, who was played by real-life trans woman 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 their eyes on the show right from the start as well, as in the pilot episode Cayne's voice was digitally lowered an octave. WordOfGod explained that Cayne is so convincing as a woman that they were afraid the audience wouldn't get that the character used to be a man.
281* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
282** The final serial of the original series, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival "Survival"]], has Ace falling in love with Karra, and they have many Lesbian Moments before Karra is summarily dispatched.
283** Captain Jack Harkness is a subversion. In Series 1, he was the token ExtremeOmnisexual, and he was killed by the Daleks in the season's finale. However, thanks to Rose becoming the [[PhysicalGod Bad Wolf Entity]], Jack is brought back to life... and also turned immortal, meaning he can't die. At least, not permanently.
284** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E7TheUnicornAndTheWasp "The Unicorn and the Wasp"]] has Roger, the son of a wealthy family who was in a secret relationship with servant Daniel. Roger is the last victim of the Wasp [[InTheBack to be murdered]] before the Doctor figures out who the killer is.
285** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight "Midnight"]]: Sky Silvestry, the only character in the episode confirmed to be gay, is possessed and eventually killed.
286** During Series 9, hints are dropped that Clara Oswald might be [[AmbiguouslyBi bisexual]]. Although this is never actually confirmed directly, the second episode to include a reference, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven "Face the Raven"]], has Clara KilledOffForReal soon after. But this being ''Doctor Who'', the trope is actually inverted two episodes later in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]], when she is not only revived but made immortal, though she must still face her established death at some point in her extended life.
287** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot The beginning]] of Series 10 led to immediate complaints of this from some fans about the fate of Heather, a girl whom new lesbian companion Bill starts getting interested in — and who immediately accidentally merges with an alien entity and starts pursuing Bill in a rather PsychoLesbian way. However, Pilot!Heather left peacefully at the end of the episode.
288** Come [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime "World Enough and Time"]], and before her debut season even finished, Bill [[UnwillingRoboticization is converted into a Cyberman]] — a fate that often results in a DeathOfPersonality and a MercyKill being the only way out. Many, ''many'' fans of the character were worried that this trope would be played straight, ''especially'' as she is also black — black and/or lesbian women on other genre shows of late having an unfortunate tendency to be bumped off (also, ''other'' fans were demanding the show finally straight-up kill a companion after Clara's death was amended). However, at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]] she's restored (sort of) by Heather, who knew of her distress thanks to SwissArmyTears. With the possibility of Bill returning to a completely human state open to her later on if she wishes, the season's first aversion ended up directly justifying its second!
289** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "Arachnids in the UK"]]: Frankie, an employee of a CorruptCorporateExecutive, is confirmed to be his niece's wife before she wanders into a GiantSpider nest and is killed.
290** [[Recap/DoctorWho2019NYSResolution "Resolution"]]: A security guard identified as Richard has just long enough to mention his boyfriend before he is summarily killed, 28 seconds after first appearing on screen.
291** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E6Praxeus "Praxeus"]] seemingly plays the trope straight ''twice'' before [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] it both times. First there is astronaut Adam, one-half of a gay married couple, who got infected with the titular virus and looks like he won't make it, but the Doctor manages to synthesize a cure by using him as a test subject, healing him in the process. Then, his husband Jake volunteers to pilot a spaceship in the upper atmosphere to disperse the cure world-wide, even if he has to commit a HeroicSacrifice to do so. Just before the ship explodes, the Doctor manages to materialise the TARDIS around him. Cue BigDamnKiss between Adam and Jake (who rekindled their romance through the ordeal).
292%%* The worst thing about the first season of ''Series/{{Damages}}'' was Ray's plot, which looked horribly reminiscent of one of those would-be sympathetic 1950s/60s films confronting the Homosexual Problem, in which gay people are tragic victims of a terrible burden but still suffer perpetual torment and death. It would have been less unfortunate if he hadn't been the only significant identified gay character in the show '''ever''', and if his relationship with Peter Facinelli hadn't been portrayed, up until the non-kiss, as very much a romantic affair. Until the non-kiss, the show strongly implied that they were in a relationship or at least mutually attracted.
293* ''Series/DowntonAbbey''...
294** ...Subverts the trope once. Originally Thomas, the only gay character as well as the DesignatedVillain of the series, was supposed to die at the end of Season 1. However, the producers were so impressed by Rob James-Collier's acting that they decided to keep his character for the rest of the series. A later season has him trying to [[SnakeOilSalesman cure his "gayness" with shock therapy and drugs]], resulting in him nearly dying. The doctor then simply tells him that there is no cure for what he is and he should simply accept it. But the closest he came to a love interest who was even hinted at having a potential to reciprocate (until the [[Film/DowntonAbbey post-series]] [[Film/DowntonAbbeyANewEra films]], at least) was a blinded soldier during WWI, who subsequently commits suicide.
295** However — Bertie Pelham has a cousin who's strongly implied to be gay. Bertie describes him to Edith as more arty than outdoorsy and says he doesn't care about marrying for love and spends his time painting young men in Tangiers. And he ends up dead.
296* The pair of Victorian gay people are dead by episode three of 2013's ''Series/{{Dracula|2013}}'' as a direct result of Greyson's blackmail.
297* ''Series/{{Emmerdale}}'':
298** Aaron was a violent thug, who got worse when he realized, and hated the fact that, he was gay. Eventually, he settled down with Jackson, who could tame him. They were happy, accepted. Then Jackson became quadriplegic and begged Aaron to help him die until he agreed.
299** Finn arrived in the village as an intelligent and driven young man, already out and accepted by all who knew him, but soon lost any focus of his own, or self-respect, at one point even becoming a stalker. He was accidentally shot by his own mother and spent a night slowly dying in the woods before succumbing to his injuries in hospital.
300** Ruby, a lesbian, spends an entire episode dying of her injuries following a helicopter crash. Her wife, Ali, does not appear in the episode, with her final moments instead spent with Ali's ex-husband (who had subjected the women to homophobia before changing his ways) and his new partner. Ali only made a brief appearance for the funeral before leaving the village. To add insult to injury, several years later Ali is killed, off-camera, in a car accident.
301* Nicely subverted in ''Series/FlashForward2009''. 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.
302* ''Series/FoylesWar'':
303** In one episode, Foyle lets the handsome young gay pilot in love with Foyle's son, Andrew, atone for his crime (his "girlfriend"'s death) by dying heroically in battle.
304** In another episode, the VictimOfTheWeek [[NeverSuicide supposedly committed suicide]] over a breakup with his girlfriend. Discovering the victim "didn't fancy girls" is an early hint at the lie.
305* ''Series/AFrenchVillage'':
306** Louis is killed before we even learn that he's gay, though he was only a bit character (and pretty unsympathetic to boot). His death does provide motivation for Jérôme, his lover, to swear revenge on his killer.
307** Marguerite, a lesbian, is introduced and killed off within a few episodes.
308* Discussed on ''Series/Girls5eva''. Summer binges queer theory in an attempt to grow out of being TheDitz. At the gay rave the girls attend in the sixth episode, she mentions that gay characters on TV are much more likely to die compared to straight characters.
309* In ''Series/{{Glue}}'', this is the fate of Cal, whose murder [[PlotTriggeringDeath jumpstarts the plot]]. His boyfriend survives, but barely.
310* ''Series/TheGoodDoctor'' does this, with a patient of Claire's who dies being half of a married lesbian couple.
311* ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' is not immune when it comes to killing characters, but when it comes to the bisexual and lesbian main characters, the show hasn't killed any of them. Most of them (Erica, Eliza, Arizona, and Callie) were PutOnABus. While [[spoiler: Callie and Arizona were in a car crash (with Arizona later also surviving a plane crash), they both survived their injuries]]. Carina, Andrew Deluca's sister, is still a recurring character. Nico Kim and Levi Schmidt, the first gay male characters [[spoiler: who also happen to have been in a rocky relationship]], are currently still living.
312* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': {{Justified|Trope}} by the fundamentalist regime. Homosexuality is a capital crime, and we see one man was hanged for this on the Wall. They even brought back the pink triangle symbol of the Nazis to designate it. However, any lesbians who are fertile get exempted, and will even be spared the death sentence if caught having homosexual sex, [[spoiler:though not without any "[[GroinAttack modifications]]" if necessary]].
313* ''{{Series/Hanna}}'': Nicola, who's seen in a relationship with another woman, is killed. Interestingly, it's done by Jules, who's lesbian herself.
314* ''Series/HemlockGrove'' has at least two.
315** The very first person to die is a teenage girl who is on her way to a liaison with her (female) [[TeacherStudentRomance teacher]] (and this is the only thing known for sure about her character.)
316** Viewers are then introduced to Clementine Chasseur, first seen in bed with one woman and later having an affair with another (though it's at least not her sole characterization.) Chasseur is captured, tortured, and killed by Olivia and her right-hand man.
317** The third and final season sees the deaths of Destiny who had sex with Clementine in Season 1 and Johann who was revealed to be gay in the final season. Though pretty much the whole cast is dead at the end except for Peter and Shelly.
318* ''Series/{{Hex}}'':
319** 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 EveryoneDiesEnding.
320** Two more lesbian ghost characters turn up. Peggy, who has been long dead, and Maya, who was killed by the villain to provide Thelma with a girlfriend, thus giving him a hold on her. Admittedly, when you already have one lesbian ghost, who else is she going to get physical with? But then Maya proceeds to get [[DeaderThanDead even deader]] at the hands of the heroine.
321** Male gay character Tom ends up dying at the hands of the man he fancies, within an episode of him being identified as gay for the first time.
322* ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' featured a male sex worker named Eddie Gregg in a few episodes. He and perennial gruff guy Belker become close before Eddie's off-screen death from AIDS.
323* 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 -- and then Silvia was shot when gangsters besieged the reception. Unable to get medical help for hours (and still in her BloodSplatteredWeddingDress) she slowly and painfully bled to death on the floor as [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Pepa held her and told her she loved her]].
324%%* In Season 3 of ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS'', Michael Corrigan commits suicide after Frank and Claire Underwood try to strong-arm him into renouncing his principles. Rachel Posner is tracked down and murdered by Doug Stamper using information he cons out of her ex-girlfriend.
325* ''Series/{{Intergalactic}}'': Donnie, a tech Rebecca gets killed, it turns out is married to another man, with a daughter. He's the first queer person introduced, and there's [[StraightGay no sign]] until after he dies. This is somewhat {{downplayed}} as Verona later gets shown to be a lesbian, while Ash is bi (main characters rather than minor like him), who both survive.
326* In ''Series/InTheFlesh'', the main character Kieren's love interest Rick gets killed twice, once coming back as a zombie and then getting KilledOffForReal at the end of season 1. Both his deaths are basically plot devices to cause Kieren {{Gayngst}}.
327* Netflix show ''Series/JulieAndThePhantoms'' plays with this trope as canon queer couple Willie and Alex are both dead. The show begins with Alex and his friends dying, and the couple meet as ghosts. You can't bury your gays if they are already dead after all.
328* ''Series/KillingEve'' kills Bill in the same episode he reveals his bisexual past. Villanelle kills her ex, Nadia. Anna kills herself after her sexual relationship with Villanelle is revealed. Villanelle kills Felix in the same episode he is introduced and reveals he has a boyfriend. Carolyn kills Paul, who had an ex-husband. Villanelle kills May after May showed romantic interest in her. In a flashback, Carolyn’s father kills himself after being blackmailed for being gay. Pam kills Fernanda, an ex of Helene, who Villanelle later kills. In the final minute of the grand finale, Carolyn kills Villanelle, after the character finally accepted (or was granted by the showrunners) the queer love that was teased for the whole series. This is not a comprehensive list.
329* 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.
330* A girl named Kayla in "New Year, New You" on ''Series/IntoTheDark'' comes out as gay to her friends and is then unceremoniously killed off less than 45 minutes later. To make matters worse, her girlfriend Frankie then appears at the house and is also killed almost instantly. Kayla and Frankie are the only two gay characters in this episode and they are the first two to die.
331* In ''Series/KrodMandoonAndTheFlamingSwordOfFire'' General Arcadius dies [[HeroicSacrifice saving the life of the title character]] in the first episode of the show after finding the love of his life and his true nature in prison. However, his lover has become a series regular.
332* In the third season of ''Series/TheKilling'', Holder befriends a homeless lesbian teenager named Bullet, who knew the victim in the latest case that Holder and Linden are investigating, and who is in love with another girl, Lyric. After Lyric seems to return Bullet's affections and then suddenly disappears, Bullet tells Holder that she thinks Lyric was kidnapped by the same person that Linden is looking for, but it turns out that Lyric simply went back to her boyfriend, and an angry Holder tells Bullet never to bother him again. Shortly after, Bullet is kidnapped by the actual perp, and Holder finds her body in the trunk of a car.
333* ''Series/LALaw'': In the pilot episode, law partner Chaney dies of a heart attack. Later on in the same episode, it's revealed he was a closeted gay man when his lover shows up at the eulogy.
334* In the final season of ''Series/TheLastShip'' Alisha Granderson, the only explicit LGBT character in the entire show, is murdered by her fiancee after discovering that she's TheMole.
335* BBC's ''Series/LastTangoInHalifax'' had Kate run over the day after she married Caroline, one of the main characters.
336* The final season of ''Series/Legion2017'' sees nearly every major gay character get killed off, though the GrandFinale involves a time travel plot that creates an alternate timeline in which Lenny, Salmon, Clarke, and Clarke's husband all lived.
337* ''Series/LondonSpy''. Alex, the protagonist's love interest, disappears early in the series and is discovered to have been put naked into a box and killed by secret services in the last episode because he wouldn't give up being with Danny.
338* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' was said to be adding a gay character. In Season 4, this was revealed to be Tom, who by that time was already dead.
339* It's mixed in ''Series/LovecraftCountry''.
340** One character, [[spoiler: Sammy]], is shown to be overtly gay ([[spoiler:fellatio in a back alley]]), and while sidelined and shunned is not explicitly harmed.
341** Another, [[spoiler:Yahima]], is shown to be "Two Spirited" and have dual genitalia. While at first accepted, the character [[spoiler:quickly comes to a rather gruesome end with a surprise cut throat]].
342** Thomas, Montrose's gay friend when both of them were teenagers, was killed during the Tulsa Massacre in 1921 (and the slurs the white people shout at the two of them before killing him make it clear it was about more than just the anti-black pogrom occurring). Montrose however survives.
343** [[spoiler:Christina]], who is bi, lesbian, or maybe transgender, gets killed by [[spoiler:Dora]].
344* ''Series/MadamSecretary'' had a nuclear agreement with Iran get entangled with Iranian authorities' plan to stone a gay man to death. Despite an attempt to get Iran to banish him instead (he has relatives in Canada), it's carried out right as the treaty is signed, with Elizabeth viewing it as a ShootTheDog moment: sadly, avoiding another war in the Middle East, especially one that could go nuclear, outweighs the life of an innocent man.
345* In the Season 4 finale of ''Series/TheMagicians2016'', Quentin Coldwater sacrifices himself to save his friends and magic. He'd been established as bi in Season 3 and was revealed to want to pursue a relationship with his friend Eliot earlier in the same season he died. Eliot and Quentin didn't share screen time for most of the season and didn't get closure on their relationship as Quentin died before they had the time.
346* Subverted in ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' where the heroes quite literally try to Bury their Gay. Greg, the most recent probation worker, comes on to Finn due to an unfortunate misunderstanding when Finn tried to obliquely confess to him about [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster having superpowers]], whereupon Finn panics and pushes him off a ledge. As per tradition, they go to bury him at the underpass, but it turns out he wasn't dead after all. Greg ends up being the only one of the show's probation workers who doesn't die.
347* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' plays this for a joke twice:
348** The panel game "Prejudice" has a segment called Shoot the Poof. A hairdresser comes out to sign in on a chalkboard (like on ''Series/WhatsMyLine'') and is immediately gunned down.
349** In "The Adventures of Biggles," Biggles' secretary implies that his comrade-in-arms Algy is queer. When Algy comes in, Biggles asks if he's gay. Taking it as meaning happy and carefree, Algy says "I should bally well say so, old fruit!", after which Biggles shoots him dead. Then suddenly subverted when Ginger, a flaming gay, comes out and denies his sexual identity. Biggles buys it.
350* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'', set at the turn of the 20th century in Toronto, added a female love interest (Lillian Moss) for a main character (Dr. Emily Grace). Lillian is murdered -- days before she and Dr. Grace were supposed to leave for London. It is revealed that she had an earlier relationship with a married woman, and was killed by the woman's husband.
351* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' had one late series edition, Agent Dorneget, who comes out to [=McGee=]. Not a full season later, Dorneget tries to save a group of people from [[MoreDakka a chain of Bouncing Bettys]]. [[DiesWideOpen He doesn't make it]].
352* ''Series/TheNightAgent'': Maddie's professor turns out to have a boyfriend. Both die by the end of the first season, while they're the only LGBT+ people so far on the show.
353* New Zealand supernatural mystery ''Series/OneLaneBridge'' has BookEnd BuryYourGays as the main murder victim is revealed to have had an affair with a male ranch hand called Cotton, and in the final episode of Season 1 [[spoiler: Cotton is revealed to be the killer and is DrivenToSuicide by his guilt]].
354* Delphine from ''Series/OrphanBlack'' gets shot in the gut at the very end of the third season, and is presumed dead by all parties including her on-off girlfriend Cosima. Then it's {{subverted|Trope}} when it turns out she survived the shot and was taken away.
355* ''Series/TheOrville'': Charly, the only (human) LGBT+ character so far, dies sacrificing herself to destroy the anti-Kaylon weapon. She's also the only main crew member to die so far.
356* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'':
357** Subverted. The episode's BigBad tries to get the POI to commit murder by threatening to kill her wife. Reese and Fusco successfully extract the wife.
358** Root in the final season dies when she saves Harold's life by [[HeroicSacrifice purposely getting in the way of a sniper's bullet meant for him]]; she and (Miss) Shaw had consummated their relationship only shortly before. The Machine later takes on her voice and personality as a way to honor her sacrifice and she is technically reborn as the Machine and she makes a "physical appearance" in the series finale. Many feel Root's death is playing this trope straight, but the producers disagree [[http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/31/person-interest-lesbian-death-root because they planned her death before the trope became a trending topic]] along with some others making this a BrokenBase.
359** Shaw, who was a love interest for Root, survives the events of the series finale and it is implied she will continue the team's work with the Machine. Although to be fair, she was seemingly killed and disappeared for most of a season almost immediately after their first relationship upgrade.
360* ''Series/{{Poirot}}'':
361** ''Literature/CardsOnTheTable'' takes the AdaptationalSexuality trope to a whole new level by making ''four'' characters from the novel gay. This includes the murderer (who is presumably going to be tried and executed), the victim, and an originally innocent side character who is implied to be a PsychoLesbian before she dies. The screenwriter presumably noticed the UnfortunateImplications, as Superintendent Wheeler, a sympathetic CanonForeigner, is also revealed to be gay at the end and is allowed to live.
362** In ''[[HalloweenEpisode Hallowe'en Party]]'', we learn that Beatrice White and Elizabeth Whittaker were lesbian lovers, but once their relationship was found out, [[DrivenToSuicide Beatrice drowned herself]], leaving Mrs. Whittaker heartbroken and alone.
363* Pretty Little Liars received a lot of backlash for revealing the main villain [[spoiler: Cece]] was a trans woman. What's more is the next episode set her up for a RedemptionArc before killing her off at the end and later episodes revealed she was still evil.
364* A potentially justified example in Creator/{{RTE}}'s restaurant drama ''Series/{{Raw}}'' and gay character Pavel. Krystof Hádek declined to return for the fifth series partway through filming for the fourth leaving writers with little time to find a resolution for the show's sole gay couple while still retaining the other half as a character. Having only just found stability in their relationship, it would have seemed odd for the pair to suddenly implode with no real build-up, so killing Pavel was the only viable solution.
365* ''Series/TheRookie2018'': Jackson's gay, the only LGBT+ person in the main cast, and killed off during the Season 4 opener.
366* ''Series/{{Sense8}}'': The TropeInAggregate nature of this trope is discussed InUniverse: After Lito, a famous telenovela actor, is outed as gay, most of the roles he is offered are gay men who die of [[TragicAIDSStory AIDS]] or drug overdoses.
367* ''Series/{{Siberia}}'' manages to have the only two main characters who die both also be the only two non-straight characters. Natalie disappears (and is later confirmed dead) only an episode after it is revealed she might be bisexual, and willing to give a relationship with Annie a chance. And then Annie gets shot in the last episode of the first season.
368%%* In ''Skins Fire'', a kind of "epilogue" to Effy, Naomi, and Emily's story from ''Series/{{Skins}}'' series three and four, Naomi is mercilessly killed off.
369* ''Franchise/StargateVerse'': Captain Alicia Vega was supposed to be the first canonically gay character in the Stargate-verse, 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 5 of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' and was heralded as a new recurring character, but almost all her scenes from her introductory episode were deleted for pacing reasons, [[HideYourLesbians 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.
370* Zig-zagged in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine.'' The Jadzia lifetime of the genderfluid, pansexual Dax comes to an end, but the Dax symbiote lives on, with all of Jadzia's memories inside it. Elim Garak, who is heavily implied to be bisexual, gets out of the series relatively unscathed and is still going strong in the novels, although executives ensured his relationship with Bashir never got beyond subtext.
371* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' is the first television entry to have a gay couple as main characters, engineer Paul Stamets and doctor Hugh Culber.[[note]]''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' established reboot-verse Sulu as married to a man, with whom he has a daughter.[[/note]] Then Culber is killed in the eleventh episode after figuring out too much. The showrunners predicted the backlash and put out interviews with the writers and Wilson Cruz (Culber) ''immediately'' after airing attempting to assure fans that they know and hate this trope and that Culber's death is not the end, but the beginning of an "epic" love story. This played out in Season 2. [[spoiler:After following Tilly into the mycelial network, Stamets and Burnham encounter Culber there, and Stamets realizes he inadvertently took Hugh's consciousness into the network after finding his dying body, so the Culber he saw during his previous visit to the mycelial network wasn't just an echo. Thanks to a sentient mycelial spore, they are able to send Culber back into the normal universe by creating a new body for him using his original DNA, effectively averting this trope.]]
372** Zigzagged once again in Season 3, when Adira (a human) and Gray (a joined Trill) were introduced to considerable fanfare as the franchise's first non-cisgender characters–and then, in a flashback in his first episode, we learn that [[DeadToBeginWith Gray is already dead]] (killed by a frigging meteorite collision, of all things). [[FirstEpisodeResurrection Then his symbiont is placed]] ''[[FirstEpisodeResurrection in Adira]]'', who then starts seeing visions of him suggesting that he's still somehow alive (in a way that past Trill hosts usually aren't). By the end of the season, other characters have seen him holographically [[spoiler:and in season 4 his consciousness is transferred into an android body.]]
373---> "If you like burying your queers, well you’ll ''love'' burying them inside another queer!" —[[https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/star-trek-discoverys-trans-representation-is-both-groundbreaking-and-heartbreaking Riley Silverman]]
374** With Jett Reno, downplayed in that she's alive, but she lost her wife in the Klingon war before we meet her. This does mean that, although the series has five recurring LGBTQ+ cast members, every single one of them has either been killed [[spoiler:(albeit resurrected)]] or widowed.
375** Ambiguous—probably deliberately so, considering the above—at the end of Season 4 of ''Discovery''. Ruon Tarka has spent the whole season trying to secure the DMA's power source, no matter the damage caused. He needs it to power a transporter he thinks can send him to an alternate universe to find Oros, a male scientist he was once imprisoned with and with whom he desperately wants to be reunited. The precise nature of their relationship isn't spelled out, but they are explicitly very tender toward each other and Booker refers to it as love. As Booker's ship is about to be destroyed, Tarka says he's going to try to run the transporter off of the energy released by the explosion, and he's last seen working on it. We'll never know if he was killed or if it worked.
376* An episode of ''Series/StrongMedicine'' had Lu being annoyed by her bickering neighbors. The fact that they're a lesbian couple is initially mentioned handedly and seems to be of no importance until one of them turns up dead. This being a Creator/{{Lifetime}} series, the instant the investigating officer learns that the two women were lovers, he arrests the other woman for murder with absolutely zero evidence to support this, then refuses to investigate the case any further, insisting that he has the guilty person in custody and muttering something about "crazy lesbians".
377* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
378** The first character to bite it in the Yellow-Eyed Demon’s special children Hunger Games is Lily, who discovered her TouchOfDeath powers by accidentally killing her girlfriend.
379** In the one-off episode "Ghostfacers'', the attraction the Ghostfacers' intern Corbett has towards one of the group is PlayedForLaughs, and he dies in the middle of the episode.
380** [[spoiler:Charlie’s]] death in Season 10, while not explicitly tied to her lesbianism, qualifies by virtue of being unusually vicious and insulting even by the show’s AnyoneCanDie[=/=]StuffedInTheFridge standards. [[spoiler: She’s left cut up in a bathtub by Nazis, in a situation where the experienced hunter she’s become would have been expected to be able to run or fight back.]]
381** In the final season, [[spoiler:Castiel declares his love for Dean]] and immediately gets dragged into what fans have lovingly nicknamed Super-hell, thanks to his deal with the Empty in the previous season. [[spoiler:Bobby's mention in the final episode that Castiel helped Jack rebuild Heaven does imply that he came back to life off-screen ([[UnexplainedRecovery somehow]]), but it doesn't change the still-poor optics of Cas' last on-screen appearance being him dying specifically because of his love for another man.]]
382** [[spoiler:Dean suffers a [[DroppedABridgeOnHim an anticlimactic death]] in the series finale, while Sam is given a happily ever after with an unseen wife and son, dying as an old man. In the English version, Dean's reaction to Cas's declaration of love is deliberately left ambiguous, but in some foreign dubs, he reciprocates. In either case, you have the straight brother living and the possibly multisexual brother dying young.]]
383* ''Series/TheTudors'':
384** Played with in the case of George Boleyn and Mark Smeaton. Only one other person even knows that they are gay, and they are actually executed for an (alleged) ''heterosexual'' sex act.
385** Played straight with William Compton and Thomas Tallis, however. Tallis originally rejected Compton's advances but eventually gave in. Compton then died of "sweating sickness" in the episode after they had consummated the relationship.
386* ''Series/ToddAndTheBookOfPureEvil'': Inverted in the fourth episode, since the wish made by the Victim of the Week, who wanted the straight guys in school to understand what he was going through, ended up switching the sexualities of every guy in Crowley High... making him the only straight male when an angry mob of students killed him.
387* A major occurrence in Brazilian soap opera ''Torre de Babel'' was a shopping mall explosion. Said explosion was also used by the author to kill characters the audience wasn't liking, including a lesbian couple.
388* ''Series/TheTunnel'':
389** The Chemist, a MadScientist villain who has a taste for young Brazilian men too and assaults many, is shot dead at the end of Season 2 (as he's an evil, sadistic person, nobody is likely to care).
390** Elise, the only LGBT+ main character (she's revealed to be bisexual in Season 2) sacrifices herself to save 11 innocent people during the series finale.
391* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' has had exactly four homosexual characters throughout the series. All of them were killed off. There are some bisexuals and pansexuals in the spin-offs of the series, but none of them have died yet.
392** Luke, a literal [[MagicalQueer magical gay man]] from Seasons 5 and 6, died when he merged with his sociopath brother Kai. Also was a HeroicSacrifice: he merged with Kai both to save Jo from having to merge with him and to save his twin sister Liv.
393** Caroline's dad Bill Forbes was initially vilified for leaving her mother to be with a man. Bill ends up dying ''twice'', the second time for refusing to become a vampire.
394** There is also the death of Nadia Petrova who was introduced having a [[ThreeWaySex three-way]] with Matt and Rebekah. She suffers a bad case of Death By Werewolf.
395** Spin off series ''Series/TheOriginals'' had the characters of [[StarcrossedLovers Josh the vampire and Aiden the werewolf]]. Aiden was killed off at the end of Season 2 to upset the supernatural politics of New Orleans. Josh was killed off in the final season but appeared to have been reunited with Aiden in the afterlife.
396* ''Series/VanHelsing2016'' has a history of this:
397** Towards the end of the first season, Vanessa's girlfriend Susan is murdered by Sam as part of TheReveal that he was EvilAllAlong, and whereas other major characters who get killed off eventually get some kind of resurrection, Susan never does, precisely because her death fuels Vanessa's enmity with Sam.
398** A flashback in Season 3 reveals that Jack had a PseudoRomanticFriendship with classmate Shelley that ended tragically when Shelley got bitten by a vampire. They have just enough time for a BigDamnKiss before Shelley throws herself off a roof so that she won't turn. Happily, Jack gets a new female love interest a few episodes later.
399* Historical Drama ''Series/{{Victoria}}'' uses this trope, but with an odd twist: [[spoiler:Edward Drummond was murdered in real life]] but was a straight man as far as anyone knows, same with the real-life version of his lover. Even more confusing, the two men didn't exist in service to the British government at the same time, and likely never met at all. The writers turned two historically straight men gay purely to invoke this trope with one, and give massive {{gayngst}} to the other. One old conservative lady ends up being surprisingly sympathetic and understanding. She does, however, point out that he should maintain a StiffUpperLip in public.
400* ''Series/{{Vikings}}'': Lagertha and Astrid, the show's LGBT+ characters (they're both bisexual women who have a relationship for a time) are killed off by the end of the show (the latter by the former, [[SuicideByCop at her urging).]]
401* ''Series/WhyWomenKill'':
402** Karl, who's gay, is voluntarily euthanized due to having AIDS.
403** Bisexual Jade is killed by Taylor acting in self-defense. However, Taylor is also bisexual and lives.
404* Lampshaded in {{WebVideo/Dimension20}}'s ''Fantasy High'', where in the final battle of the series Kalvaxus attacks both Kristen Applebees and Ragh Barkrock (the only two queer characters present in the fight [[spoiler: as of that episode, since in the next season Riz Gukgak would realize he's on the asexual spectrum and Fig Faeth start dating Ayda Aguefort, Principal Aguefort's estranged daughter]], with Ragh only having come out moments before) as he insists that it's [[UnfortunateImplications "not a homophobe thing"]], he's just an evil dragon.
405--> '''Kalvaxus:''' I want to be very clear: I have no problem with your sexuality, this is not-\
406'''Riz:''' HOMOPHOBE!\
407'''Kalvaxus:''' It's not a homophobe thing!\
408'''Adaine:''' You hit both of the gay ones!\
409'''Kristen:''' Wow...\
410'''Riz:''' That's fucked up, man...\
411'''Kalvaxus:''' Alright, to be clear, I am very ''socially'' liberal, I'm ''fiscally'' conservative.\
412''General noises of disapproval and disgust from the table''\
413'''Kalvaxus:''' What? I'm a Libertarian! I'M A LIBERTARIAN!
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416[[folder:Music]]
417* Music/{{Spoon}}'s "The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine":
418-->''I wanna play the part of Eddie in ''The Stranger Dance''\
419He makes love to the duke\
420He swordfights the queen\
421He steals the whole show in his last dying scene''
422* Music/EltonJohn's "All the Girls Love Alice," about a lesbian who dies:
423-->''Gettin' your kicks in another girl's bed\
424And it was only last Tuesday...\
425They found you in the subway, dead!''
426* The name "Music/ScissorSisters" is a shortening of the band's original name, [[RefugeInAudacity Dead Lesbian and Her Fibrillating Scissor Sisters]].
427* The Music/VelvetUnderground's "Lady Godiva's Operation" is a BlackComedy song about a UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} person who accidentally gets sent to a brain operation and dies due to an incompetent surgeon.
428* Rich Mullins's "Awesome God" in its entirety has a line referencing God pouring out His wrath on Sodom, which [[SecondVerseCurse can partly explain why the chorus version of the song is more commonly used]].
429* The titular couple of Cosmo Jarvis's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dysG12QCdTA Gay Pirates]]" end up forced to walk the plank.
430* Music/RodStewart's ''The Killing of Georgie (Part I & II)'' was inspired by the RealLife murder of a gay friend during the 1970s.
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433[[folder:Podcasts]]
434%%* Happens in an arc of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZone'', and the writer for the show, [[Creator/McElroyBrothers Griffin McElroy]], took an apologetic tone in a discussion about it with a fan. He wasn't aware of the trope when writing the story, and wishes he had been.
435%%** He then subverted (and in the minds of some fans, rectified) this, when he eventually [[spoiler:brought these characters back as dryads in the finales.]]
436* The premise of ''Podcast/AliceIsntDead'' is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin refusal to believe in this trope]]. The series follows a trucker searching for her presumed dead wife, Alice, who the protagonist is sure is still alive somewhere.
437* Played ''very'' straight in ''Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery''. Two {{occult detective}}s meet. It's LoveAtFirstSight. They become [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre partners]] and find themselves in Wormwood, a Creepy Town where they immediately spot a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] . . . you can guess where this is going.[[note]]Just had to know? One dies tragically in the other's arms.[[/note]]
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441* Subverted in ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica''. Although the deaths of Prior and Belize's friends are mentioned, the only one of the gay characters to die is Roy Cohn, [[ArmoredClosetGay the malicious, heartless bastard of a closet queen who refuses to think of himself as gay]].
442* ''Theatre/BareAPopOpera'' features two main gay characters, one of whom, [[spoiler: Jason, kills himself after he is outed by a fellow classmate.]]
443* Invoked and defied in ''Theatre/TheBoysInTheBand'':
444-->'''Michael:''' It's not always the way it is in plays. Not all faggots bump themselves off at the end of the story!
445* Parodied to the hilt by [[http://www.lashings.org Lashings of Ginger Beer]] in [[http://youtu.be/xPR5oMa8S2A their version]] of ''Buffy: The Musical'':
446--> It's true and also sad\
447that dykes in mainstream film\
448we end up either dead or mad...
449* ''Theatre/LizardBoy'': Subverted. While the audience is initially led to believe that Cary is dead, he wakes up right as Trevor finishes his goodbye song.
450* ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'' has sometimes been accused of using this trope, as gay drag queen/genderfluid character Angel dies of AIDS. His/her lover Collins and female couple Maureen and Joanne all survive, but it's still been a bone of contention among critics that the "queerest" of those four characters is the one who dies. Especially since Mimi, a straight girl who dies in [[Theatre/LaBoheme the source material]], is SparedByTheAdaptation.
451* The titular king of ''Theatre/RichardII'' is murdered by a follower of Bolingbroke. (It's 16th Century theatre, so he's not explicitly shown to be gay, but recent interpretations have been fairly consistent on this point; the historical Richard II was probably bisexual). Two of his [[HomoeroticSubtext close friends]], Bushy and Green, are also executed by Bolingbroke -- and one of the charges brought against them is that they have ''ruined Richard's relationship with his wife'' (although her onstage interactions with them and with Richard don't necessarily bear this out).
452** Christopher Marlowe's play ''Theatre/EdwardII'' is less ambiguous about the characters' sexuality, and the gay eponymous king and all of his lovers are murdered or executed over the course of the play (although all of this is based on historical events).
453%%* Lillith is killed by two demon cheerleaders while saving Tilly in the play ''She Kills Monsters'' during a D&D game. This character had a role in Tilly Evan's love interest, however she still lives in reality as a queer woman. It's revealed later in the play that she had feelings for the once-living teenager. Sexuality is a big topic mentioned in the story as Agnes Evans tries to learn more about her dead sister through Tilly's Dungeons and Dragons notebook.
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457* It's entirely possible for a player to either invoke this trope or trigger it by accident in ''VideoGame/{{Bugsnax}}''. The only time characters can die is during the climax, and they only die if you don't complete all their sidequests; consequently, if a player completes the sidequests of everyone ''except'' the gay couple Chandlo and Snorpy and the nonbinary Floofty, the game plays this trope completely straight. It's also zigzagged with the lesbian couple Elizabert and Eggabell; while their fate is left ambiguous in the bad ending, it's revealed in the good ending that they survived and managed to shake off their BodyHorror transformations in the process.
458* ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'': Seiko, the conspicuous lesbian, is the first to die in every installment (i.e., ''Corpse Party: Blood Covered'', ''Book of Shadows'', and ''Hysteric Birthday''). Yet, it is worth noting that everyone dies in this game except for a small handful of main characters.
459* In ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'', Thomas suffers a rather gruesome death after flipping out and going all DepravedHomosexual (thereby forcing the player to fight him).
460* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline'': [[spoiler:Little Leaf and Regent Cassipia]] downplay the nature of their relationship at first, even when directly asked. One only exclaims her true devotion after you've killed the other defending her. After both are defeated, you can find a journal written by the former professing her love in return, but the game continues to drive home how irreversibly dead you've just made them for the rest of the quest. This example is particularly notable for being both a Zone Story and the only way to unlock Nirnhoned equipment. Other examples of overtly queer characters in the game, if there are any, are much easier to miss.
461* The ''Dragonborn'' expansion of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' introduces an NPC gay couple. They are dead by the time you get to Solstheim.
462* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': While death isn’t exactly an uncommon thing in the wasteland, if the Courier sells Arcade Gannon (who is gay) to Caesar as his personal doctor, the ending slide reveals Arcade kills himself. Alternatively, if [[spoiler: Caesar dies of his brain tumor]] but you still sell him into slavery, the end slide will show him to either have been crucified by Legate Lanius if the Courier sides with the Legion, or an unfortunate casualty during the assault on The Fort if the Courier creates an independent New Vegas.
463* In "VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI", one of the major characters suffers this fate. [[spoiler:Dion, is explicitly shown to be a romantic relationship with one of his dragoons and even share a kiss on screen. Dion is also the dominant of the powerful Bahamut, making him a key ally against the big bad. He is shown injured and falling from the sky during the conclusion of the first part of the fight, and although his fate is somewhat ambiguous as the player never sees a body, his fate seems grim at best.]]
464* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' expansion pack ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony The Ballad of Gay Tony]]'' revolves around the titular character Tony, a gay man and club owner. During the first part of the story, Tony's boyfriend Evan Moss is killed during a diamond deal gone wrong.
465* You meet the only explicitly lesbian couple in ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' in a quest where one of them asks to deliver a flower to the other's grave. [[spoiler:And when you return to her after delivering the flower, she wilts and dies as well.]]
466* The DLC campaign "Left Behind" in ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' reveals that Ellie and Riley, who she mentions to Joel at the end of the game, weren't actually JustFriends -- the two of them snuck out one night before Riley was going to join the Fireflies, and Ellie kissed Riley, which convinced her not to go. Unfortunately, the two were attacked by clickers not a few seconds later, and both were bitten; Ellie's immunity kept her alive, but if Riley's refusal to kill herself means anything, we can assume that she succumbed to the virus. Her death still clearly bothers Ellie.
467* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' features the death of Chloe Price in one of two [[HesitantSacrifice distinct endings]]. The first sees the player [[TheNeedsOfTheMany allowing her to die in order to undo Max's actions in the bathroom]], while the other keeps her alive but [[DoomedHometown has Max refuse to go back in time and undo everything]]. It should be noted that of the two endings, Chloe and the main character specifically only ever share a romantic kiss in the ending where Chloe dies. Although WordOfGod states that the two are romantic no matter what -- they just felt it would be inappropriate to have Chloe and Max kiss while their hometown is being destroyed, or in the immediate aftermath.
468** Prequel game ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm'' confirms that Chloe and Rachel had a romantic relationship, retroactively making the revelation of Rachel's death in the original game a case of this.
469** ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange2'' has Finn, a potential GayOption for Sean, who can get killed not long after he's romanced in Episode 3 if Sean doesn't tell Daniel to use his powers to save him. Said potential death does not apply to Sean's other possible love interest, Cassidy.
470* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
471** On top of HoYay, the series has four explicitly non-hetero men. Scott Dolph, bisexual ([[BlackDudeDiesFirst and black]]), dies after the prologue in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty MGS2]]''. Volgin, the DepravedBisexual BigBad of ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater MGS3]]'', dies at the end. Raikov, Volgin's lover, can be killed off with no consequences to the story. Then finally there's Vamp, who is also a DepravedBisexual and survives ''2'' but dies in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots 4]]''. It should be noted that there is so much HoYay with Big Boss and Miller (to the point that they can go on a date in ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Peace Walker]]'') that they may as well count when they die, but only Miller's death is used to progress Solid Snake's story. However, even Solid has so much HoYay with Otacon and the two of them make it out fine. Therefore, the series has a unique spin on this trope given it's a natural consequence of the AnyoneCanDie setting and large number of implied or outright gay/bisexual male characters.
472** ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPortableOps Portable Ops]]'' confirms Raikov's survival... well, as long as you rescue him, that is. If you don't, it's fair to assume this happens. Either way, just as in ''[=MGS3=]'', it's up to the player to decide his fate.
473** Ocelot is a borderline example: his [[SingleTargetSexuality insane devotion]] to Big Boss is what gets him killed in the end.
474* In ''VideoGame/MyHouse'', triggering the HouseFire [[EarnYourBadEnding after collecting all of the artifacts]] and accessing the secret passage in the fence that normally leads to the highway and gas station reveals a tombstone with a QR code that links to a newspaper obituary for the mod's [[DeadAllAlong alleged author, Steve Nelson]], [[TogetherInDeath alongside that of his "childhood sweetheart" Thomas Allord]], whose house was the basis for the map.
475* In ''VideoGame/TheOrionConspiracy'', Devlin discovers that his dead son Danny was gay. Devlin was surprised because he and Danny had been so distant from each other that Devlin simply did not have a clue. He also finds out that Kaufmann is gay and that he was Danny's boyfriend. Kaufmann and Devlin get into a shouting match because Kaufmann thinks Devlin disapproves of the relationship. Devlin, on his part, feels that he would not have held that against Danny. Sadly, Kaufmann is found dead and disemboweled shortly afterwards. Devlin finds out later that Captain Shannon killed Danny and Kaufmann. Why? Because Shannon blames Devlin for the death of Shannon's wife, and so he murdered Danny for revenge. Shannon killed Kaufmann to frame Devlin. Naturally, Shannon is planning to kill Devlin. Despite this reasoning, Danny and Kaufmann are the first characters confirmed dead, and they were both gay, so the trope still stands.
476* In ''VideoGame/Persona2'', Yukino Mayuzumi is revealed to be bisexual and hold a romantic affection for Anna... but only in her [[EarnYourBadEnding bad]] [[WhatTheHellHero ending]] where Anna is killed and Yukino promptly suffers a complete ego death.
477* In ''[[VideoGame/Persona3 Persona 3 Portable]]'' the Female Protagonist is one of few explicitly bisexual characters not just in the game but the franchise as a whole and she has the option to romance [[DiscountLesbians Aigis or Elizabeth]] in addition to the male romance options. The story [[TheHeroDies ends with her death]] after she [[HeroicSacrifice uses all of her life essence]] to save humanity from being destroyed by sealing Nyx away with a magic spell.
478* Used in ''VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh''. 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 [[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]].
479* In ''VideoGame/Prey2017'', Chief Danielle Sho and crew member Abigail Joy were revealed to be in a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sapphism}} sapphic]] relationship. Shortly after the period in which the player gains access to the Crew Quarters which contains the pieces which reveal this, Abigail's body is found murdered. The player optionally meets Sho, who is spacewalking outside, at a window and informs her of her partner's death.
480* Played with in ''VideoGame/{{Rift}}'': In the Defiant start zone, you're informed that the [[RebelliousPrincess rebellious bahmi princess]] Uriel Chuluun was killed in the razing of Meridian. However, it's not until you go back in time to when she's still alive (and thus, actually ''avert'' the BadFuture in which she dies) that she's able to meet (and, it would seem, fall for) Kira. Later, you have to save her from herself when she almost goes over to a death cult and almost gets herself killed in the process.
481* In the PSP version of ''VideoGame/TheSims2'', which is supposed to be a sequel to the PC version, Nervous Subject, who is canonically gay, is revealed to have died at some point.
482* In ''VideoGame/StarControl 2'', practically the only named character to die is [[DepravedBisexual Depraved Omnisexual]] Admiral ZEX. Also applies to the Androsynth race from the original Star Control. Yes, the ''entire species''.
483* A two for one deal in ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline''. During the Age of Discovery story arc, they make Ellen Landry from early in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' retroactively gay. They give her a girlfriend and then kill her within two missions. [[spoiler:Then Landry dies on the show.]]
484* 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.
485* In ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter: Dark Mirror'', Mara and Elsa are revealed to be a lesbian couple and are subsequently killed.
486* Walter and Matthew from ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonTwo'', also being the first openly LGBT characters in the main series. Matthew is unceremoniously shot in the neck by Nick, causing him to stumble and fall down the bridge the group is on before we even got to share more than a few words with him. The player gets to spend a [[MauveShirt bit more time with his boyfriend Walter]], but he's also shot in the head during the raid on the ski lodge the group is staying in. They're both introduced in and die during episode two, which is a very short lifespan, even in this series. The [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonThree future]] [[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonFour seasons]] are much better about their treatment of LGBT characters, even to the PreserveYourGays degree -- the following two protagonists, Javi and Clementine respectively, are both revealed to be bisexual in their respective seasons.
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490* ''WebAnimation/LoboWebseries'': Both Slaz and Major Snake, a gay couple die by the end of ''Breakout''. Lobo shot Snake's head because his bike can't carry three people. Slaz and his brother [[DeathByIrony impale each other by hugging]] by the time they reunite at Lil One Lung's Bar.
491* There are three homosexual characters in ''Machinima/TacticalNoobs'', all of whom die horribly within seconds of being introduced. The first blasts himself with a rocket launcher. The second two are [[KillItWithFire flame-throwered]] by someone who disagrees with their choice to vote UsefulNotes/BarackObama for president.
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495* ''Webcomic/ChessPiece'' deconstructs this: Danny's gay lover commits suicide and comes back as a ghost. It's [[DrivenToSuicide implied as to why]], but still.
496%%* Jamie in ''Webcomic/DaughterOfTheLilies'' is dead before the comic starts. He shows up as a corpse in his dad's mental landscape, because [[spoiler:his father feels guilty about causing his son's suicide]].
497* ''Webcomic/LegendOfTheBlueDiamond'':
498** [[spoiler: Asher, Meerkat's boyfriend, is killed by Indigo out of jealousy.]]
499** [[spoiler: Meerkat is also killed and used by Queen Ekala as a lure.]]
500* ''Webcomic/SuitorArmor:'' Lucia was raised by two fathers, [[spoiler: before they were killed.]]
501* In Chapter 2 of ''Webcomic/TailsGetsTrolled'', it's revealed Bugs and Daffy were in a relationship. In Chapter 3, Shadow kills them both.
502* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': [[StraightGay Turas]], the first confirmed queer character in the story, gets murdered and eaten. Then a flashback introduces Jon and Mallory, who died on the same night in separate confrontations. Mallory's suitor Roger survives the night, to face a slow FateWorseThanDeath starting that night and carrying to the present, where he is quickly succumbing.
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506* Criticized in the ''Website/{{Springhole}}'' article [[https://www.springhole.net/writing/moreoffensivemistakes.htm 7 MORE Offensive Mistakes Well-Intentioned Writers Make]]. It’s stated the trope implies that the only way LGBT+ people can deal with the bigotry surrounding them is to die.
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510* Played with on ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman''. Herb, a gay man, is the first character to die within the timeline of the show, but the audience knows he is going to die before they know he's gay. The first thing we learn about Herb is that he has cancer and has six months to live. However, his cancer goes into remission, and he actually dies by crashing into a peanut truck. The crash itself didn't even kill him—he's just deathly allergic to peanuts. In addition, the show has a number of other gay characters (like Kelsey Jannings and Hollyhock's eight dads), all of whom survive the events of the series.
511* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'' has seven canon LGBT+ characters. Two of them are dead, and one is currently trapped inside a magic coin, and is assumed to be dead by his husband and other family.
512* ''WesternAnimation/KoalaMan'': Alison has been trying to become the most popular girl in her school by removing the other popular girls. When she gets to Rosie, who's the No. 1 most popular, she and Rosie become friends and then later they would both fall in love with each other. Unfortunately, the beginning of their relationship is cut short when Rosie sacrifices herself to save Alison from her triplet sisters.
513%%* {{Parodied|Trope}} and {{inverted|Trope}} in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLlklPxA1Q0 Halloween special]] for ''WesternAnimation/SuperDrags''. Let's just say it ends [[BlackComedyRape badly]] for everyone else instead.
514* In ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', Adam, Shiro's ex-boyfriend, dies shortly after being introduced to the audience - the only things known about him was that he was a pilot and was in a relationship with Shiro, the latter not even being explicitly shown and relying on WordOfGay (which the creators [[BaitAndSwitchLesbians played up in the hype]] for the season). Adding to the conspicuousness is that he was the only friend or family of one of the core cast to die when they returned to Earth; even the characters in prison camps made it out just fine.
515* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': Marie Logan, mother of Beast Boy, is killed during the time gap between Seasons 1 and 2, and a tie-comic reveals that it's because she was enthralled by Queen Bee into driving off a waterfall -- an ability known to be used against men and previously implied to be effective against lesbians. A later scene includes a photo Garfield had of her and her partner.
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