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Rights groups have warned this could allow the prosecution of anyone identifying as gay, bisexual or transgender.

Hundreds of thousands of Romani people were also killed by the regime, as were gay men and political opponents of the Nazis.

"We were still living in a time where if a kid told their parents they were gay in the Midwest or somewhere, they were disowned. New York was filled with the disowned".

Cheney was also close to his other daughter, Mary, who is gay.

He opposed a constitutional ban on gay marriage - supported by President Bush - because his daughter Mary was a lesbian.