A couple of months after learning that she was about to be deployed to Afghanistan, Private Bethany Smith received an anoymous death threat. Smith, a 21-year-old lesbian who enlisted in the Army in 2006, was stationed at Fort Campbell, Ky., the same base where Barry Winchell was murdered in 1999. Like Winchell, Smith was continuously harassed about her sexuality, “receiving hundreds of anonymous “gay-bashing” notes,” according to Women’s eNews. She was also “grabbed, shaken and thrown on the ground by a male soldier daily.” The taunts of “dyke” had started as soon as she arrived, but “the abuse worsened exponentially after a soldier spotted her holding hands with another woman at a local shopping mall.” So when she got a note in 2007 that described how some of her fellow soldiers planned to steal keys to her room and beat her to death during the night, Smith fled Fort Campbell to seek asylum in Canada. “It was at that point,” she says, “that I knew I was more afraid of the people who were supposed to be on my side than people we were supposed to be fighting overseas.