Those about to die gay characters

• Those About to Die stars a talented cast led by Anthony Hopkins, and is an intriguing swords-and-sandals titanic set in ancient Rome.
• The series explores the seedy underworld of crime surrounding the Roman Empire's sports industry, impacting the political dealings of Emperor Vespasian and his sons.
• The stand-alone historical series is a blend of activity and political drama with recognizable faces from Game of Thrones and Ted Lasso, among other noteworthy TV series and movies.

This trope is the presentation of deaths of LGBT characters where these characters are nominally qualified to be viewed as more expendable than their heterosexual counterparts. In this way, the death is treated as exceptional in its circumstances. In aggregate, gay 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 decision of their story is an early death.

The reasons for this trope have evolved somewhat over the years. For a good while, it was because the Depraved Homosexual trope and its ilk pretty much limited portrayals of explicitly gay characters to villainous characters, or at least characters