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That the people with whom Brandon feels most at home would kill him if they knew his true gender is the movie's most tragic irony--and the one that lifts it out of the realm of gay-martyr hagiography and into something more complex and irreducible: a meditation on the irrelevance of gender.
Today, they can speak out against the "death penalty" without confusion or irony--and without being asked for clarification--because the traditional meaning of that phrase is no longer plausible.