All the gays must die

In his Sunday sermon, Pastor Dillon Awes of the Stedfast Baptist Church said that all gay people in America should be "lined up" and executed. An Australian Salvation Army major outrages gay-rights supporters — again — by agreeing that the bell-ringing-Santa charity thinks gays deserve to die.

Bury your gays: history, usage, and context

Just in time to ruin Gay Pride month, a media relations director for the Salvation Army had no problem reminding us and the queer journalists he was talking to all gays should be put to death. It would appear the hatred of gays by The Westboro Baptist Church has been eclipsed by Sheikh Sekaleshfar and the Husseini Islamic Center Mosque of Sanford, FL. Gay, must die and transgender youth are between twice and four times as likely as their straight peers to attempt suicide.

The irony of the death wish was that – by exposing the victimisation of homosexual men – gay activists, scientists and novelists made victims of the gay population. In the documentary The Lavender Lens: Years of Celluloid Queersthere'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'. Webcomics Chess Piece deconstructs this: Danny's gay lover commits suicide and comes back as a ghost.

In another episode, the Victim of the Week supposedly committed suicide over a breakup with his girlfriend. In the Season 4 finale of The MagiciansQuentin Coldwater sacrifices himself to save his friends and magic. Alex, the protagonist's love interest, disappears early in the series and is discovered to have been put all the gays must die into a box and killed by secret services in the last episode because he wouldn't give up being with Danny.

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 Body Horror transformations in the process. Knockout, one of the bad guys in DC's fantastic Secret Six died essentially offscreen between the first mini-series and the ongoing comic.

Live-Action TV The : 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. Anna kills herself after her sexual relationship with Villanelle is revealed. Mind you, this was published in Seriously, that trope is awful.

The series follows a trucker searching for her presumed dead wife, Alice, who the protagonist is sure is still alive somewhere. Two: Larry's dead. 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.

Knockout was a "New God" and killed off with the rest in the Final Crisis arc, so it gets a pass as her death didn't come off like such an afterthought within the confines of someone else's must die book or because of her lesbian relationship, and the writer, Gail Simonewas not happy that the character had to die. 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.

The first sees the player allowing her to die in order to the gay Max's actions in the bathroomwhile the other keeps her alive but has Max refuse to go back in time and undo everything. It is particularly galling when LGBT visibility continues to lag behind that of our straight counterparts on television. The same thing occurs in the movie adaptation, with the protagonist becoming a homosexualcis man.

The player gets to spend a bit more time with his boyfriend Walterbut he's also shot in the head during the raid on the ski lodge the group is staying in. C Joe Quesada touting him as the company's top gay hero. Buffy the Vampire Slayer : Larry, the only confirmed gay man ever on the show, was killed in the battle against The Mayor in "Graduation Day". Other than her, there are only two named characters in the comic which are Rick Sheridan and William Clockwellwho are in a relationship, but are Demoted to Extragiving the comic's LGBT representation little focus.

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. In Mauritania, which follows a Sharia-based criminal code, sexual acts between people of the same sex are criminalised and may be punished with death. Reina marries a man not long afterwards.

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.