 Ames—who was bisexual—asserted that she loved the gay community and that she had a right to exercise her sexual autonomy.On 5 December 2017, two days after her tweet, Ames was found dead in a park in Camarillo, California, at the age of 23.Her death was ruled a suicide due to asphyxia by hanging by the Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office.