I disagree.
At least they had the ability to hide, and give me a break on that involuntary institutionalization bit. You think the blacks volunteered to be purchased for use as farm equipment for 260 years? They endured the same treatment as cattle, including castration. Not only that, but if you were born to a mother who was a slave, that made you a slave by default, thanks to George Washington's temper tantrum over one of his slaves running away. There was nowhere to run, and no possible way to hide, since federal law mandated that runaway slaves must be returned to their owners upon recovery. What followed for a runaway after being returned was usually something unspeakable. The hotbox, hobbling, whipping, various torture techniques, extremely hard labor, deprivation of food and water, etc. Sometimes they'd just hang the runaway, and leave the carcass on the rope to serve as a visual warning for the other slaves.
Small potatoes.
Which isn't exclusive to homosexuals.