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. The latter had treated the other man's passion with indifference then coquetry, then cruel mockery and finally with an almost brutal contempt—making sport of his admirer's unattractive looks, his age and his individuality in general; and reading his letters to a third homosexual who made the situation common gossip in similisexual cliques. In the city of New York, several years ago, the suicide of a well-known and successful business-man, conducting a fashionable establishment, with various European, branches, referred positively to his relationships with young man, between whom and himself there had come about a formally adoptive connection. The matter was hushed up assiduously. Its details were umnistakeably homosexual—and intensely passional.

Here is an example of a double suicide, because of the mere passion of a coming separation:

The mutual suicides, in the artillery-barracks at Laibach, in February, 1909, of two young under-officers, Adolf Waldeck and his friend Kogei, had a strong accent of homosexualism. Such affairs are far from rare in military or civilian life.