They did that down here. And if they got outed, they got fired. They couldn't get security clearances. Couldn't join up. Cops raided their clubs and terrorized them regularly. Texas and many other states imprisoned them. "Good citizens" attacked them, beat them, arsonized their dwellings, and murdered them.
In Texas in 1988, two good, clean, Gawd-fearin' Texans picked up two, took 'em for a ride, and murdered them. The judge gave them the minimum sentence because, and I quote, "it wasn't as if they had killed a mother of kids."
Maybe yours are just copycats and none of that ever happened in Canada, but down here they have reasons.
I think we have our share of horrible stories about GLBTQIA people in Canada and their experiences, but we don't hear it as often because the US *is* worse and they're a better story to 'hold up' as an example of the level of horrible it can reach.