6. Giovanni di Giovanni, Age 15 – Executed For Being Gay
Little is known about Giovanni Di Giovanni. Believed to be the youngest person ever executed for being gay, Giovanni lived in 12th-century Italy. At just 15, the boy was charged with being “a public and notorious passive sodomite.”
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As punishment, Giovanni was paraded on an ass to the “place of justice” past the Franciscan basilica of Santa Croce, where he was publicly castrated. He was ultimately mutilated in his nether region with a red-hot iron and died.
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