Suici preventn and timate partner vlence for gay and bisexual men.
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SUICI AND SUICI RISK LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR POPULATNS: REVIEW AND REMENDATNS
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Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men are at overall creased risk of vlence bee of homophobia, harassment, and vlent acts directed towards gay persons. Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men are at even greater risk for suici attempts, pecially before the age of 25. A study of youth gras 7-12 found that lbian, gay, and bisexual youth were more than twice as likely to have attempted suici as their heterosexual peers.
Some risk factors are lked to beg gay or bisexual a hostile environment and the effects that this has on mental health. The Trevor Project – A natnal anizatn foced on crisis and suici preventn among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng (LGBTQ) youth.
72 MB] has shown that around 40% of gay men experienced sexual vlence (other than rape) their lifetime and around 47% of bisexual men experienced sexual vlence (other than rape) their lifetime. Acrdg to data om the Youth Risk Behavr Survey (YRBS) nducted durg 2001-2009 seven stat and six large urban school districts, 14% to 31% of gay and lbian stunts across the s and 17% of 32% of bisexual stunts across the s had been forced to have sexual terurse at some pot their liv. Clayton, MD1AbstractDpe strong ditns of elevated risk of suicidal behavr lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, limed attentn has been given to rearch, terventns or suici preventn programs targetg the populatns.