Suicide and Homosexuality

Despite the inconsistency in data concerning the higher prevalence of mental disorders among homosexuals than heterosexuals, suicidality in homosexuals, particularly among adolescents and young adults have been consistently reported to be higher over the past 25 years . It has been recently stated that gay youth are 2 to 3 times more likely to attempt suicide than other young people which may comprise up to 30% of completed youth suicides annually.

Homosexually active gay and bisexual young adult males are over-represented in the male youth attempted suicide problem, and the same would apply for gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth of colour. An over-representation of these youth is also predicted in the suicide problem. It has been demonstrated that male youth who identify as being gay and/or bisexual are about 6-times more at risk for suicide attempts than heterosexual youth, and would account for about 40%, maybe 50%, of male youth suicide attempters.

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