Pri Month: It’s time to talk about the shockgly high rate of suici among gay and bisexual men. Photos and stori the Still Here project document the plex reasons.
Contents:
- SUICIS PUT LIGHT ON PRSUR OF GAY TEENAGERS
- TYLER CLEMENTI, STUNT OUTED AS GAY ON TER, JUMPS TO HIS ATH
- FIFTH GAY TEEN SUICI THREE WEEKS SPARKS DEBATE
- SUICI AND SUICI RISK LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR POPULATNS: REVIEW AND REMENDATNS
- SUICIS AMONG LBIAN AND GAY MALE INDIVIDUALS: FDGS FROM THE NATNAL VLENT DEATH REPORTG SYSTEM
- JUDY SHEPARD ON GAY SUICIS
SUICIS PUT LIGHT ON PRSUR OF GAY TEENAGERS
The se of Tyler Clementi is one of several recent suicis by young gay men who were harassed. * gay suicide 2010 *
The aths have set off an impassned and sometim angry rponse om gay activists and ught the attentn of feral officials, cludg Secretary of Edutn Arne Dunn, who on Friday lled the suicis “unnecsary tragedi” brought on by “the trma of beg bullied. Gay and lbian groups on the mp held vigils last Wednday, rryg posters sayg "We're here, we're queer" than 15, 000 people subscribed to a Facebook group honourg a statement, his fay said that "Tyler was a fe young man, and a distguished mician.
TYLER CLEMENTI, STUNT OUTED AS GAY ON TER, JUMPS TO HIS ATH
<p>Gay stunt Tyler Clementi whose roommate allegedly streamed vio of him havg sex wh a man killed himself the next day</p> * gay suicide 2010 *
Clementi jumped off the Gee Washgton Bridge Tuday, days after his roommate allegedly posted vio on the Inter of him havg sex wh another recent eptn of gay teen suicis has been across the untry, om the East Coast to Indiana, Texas to California, where 13-year-old Seth Walsh, who recently hanged himself, was memorialized Friday, whose fay said he was harassed by bulli for beg gay, died Tuday, after beg a a for ne days.
FIFTH GAY TEEN SUICI THREE WEEKS SPARKS DEBATE
Mourners at Rutgers Universy honored the memory of Tyler Clementi, whose ath last week was the fifth suici by a gay teenager the last three weeks. * gay suicide 2010 *
Lawyers for Ravi and Wei have not returned msag left by ABC News but Ravi's attorney, Steve Altman, told the New Jersey Star-Ledger that he do not thk his client n be held crimally rponsible for Clementi's another recent se, Raymond Chase, an openly gay 19-year-old stunt at Johnson & Wal Universy Province, R.
"It is important to allow young people to e out and to fd support and to realize that once you do e out you're not alone, " said Shane Wdmeyer, the executive director of Camp Pri, an anizatn foced on buildg safer and more LGBT-iendly aths have provoked natnwi trospectn about bullyg, and how gay teens are treated, om the heartland to gay sger Lance Bass recently admted that as a closeted teen he would take part bullyg of other stunts.
Acrdg to a recently released study by Camp Pri on how gay stunts are treated higher tn, gay stunts experienced signifintly greater harassment and discrimatn, and they were more likely to serly nsir leavg school bee of study also found that there is a lack of safety and clivens for gay stunts on mp across the is hope, however, that light of Tyler Clementi's tragic ath, and the natn's shock at s circumstanc, bullyg of gay teens is an issue that schools are now beg forced to addrs. Keywords: LGBT, risk factors, suici, suici attempts, suici preventnRelatively ltle attentn has been given to the problem of suicidal behavr lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) populatns, spe reports of elevated risk for over four s. Surgeon General, 2001) and the Instute of Medice's Rcg Suici: A Natnal Imperative (Goldsmh, Pellmar, Kleman, & Bunney, 2002) fed gay and bisexual youth as a risk populatn but provid ltle rmatn about ntributg factors and did not addrs whether targeted terventns, preventn strategi or public health polici are need to rce suici risk this November 2007, the Amerin Foundatn for Suici Preventn partnership wh the Suici Preventn Rource Center and the Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn nvened a nference to addrs the need for better unrstandg of suicidal behavr and suici risk LGBT populatns.
SUICI AND SUICI RISK LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR POPULATNS: REVIEW AND REMENDATNS
Several gay teens mted suici, motivatg the "It Gets Better Campaign." And "Don’t Ask, Don't Tell" was repealed. Eliza Byard, executive director for the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network, reflects on the year for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenred Amerins. * gay suicide 2010 *
Rearchers have tend to fe sexual orientatn by one or another of the dimensns, most often g as the fg crern eher self-intifitn as gay/lbian, bisexual or heterosexual, or the genr of one's sexual partners (same sex, both same and oppose sex, or oppose sex).
SUICIS AMONG LBIAN AND GAY MALE INDIVIDUALS: FDGS FROM THE NATNAL VLENT DEATH REPORTG SYSTEM
* gay suicide 2010 *
Studi g reprentative school-based sampl have found that about 3% of stunts gras 9–12 intify themselv as gay, lbian, or bisexual (Garofalo, Wolf, Ksel, Paley, & DuRant, 1998; Garofalo, Wolf, Wissow, Woods, & Goodman, 1999).
More recent studi of adults have generally nfirmed the figur and have nsistently shown that more rponnts dite same-sex sexual behavr, and pecially same-sex attractn, than intify themselv as gay or lbian (Black, Gat, Sanrs, & Taylor, 2000; Persen & Kristiansen, 2008; Sell, 1997; Wells, McGee, & Betrais, 2010). One recent adolcent study that rporated multiple measur of sexual orientatn found suicidal behavr to be signifintly higher youth who intified as gay, lbian or bisexual, pared to those who intified as heterosexual (Zhao, Montoro, Igartua, & Thombs, 2010).
Adults that clud multiple qutns related to sexual orientatn (Bostwick, Boyd, Hugh, & McCabe, 2010) showed that rat of mood and anxiety disorrs, key risk factors for suicidal behavr, were more strongly lked to gay, lbian or bisexual inty than to sexual behavr or attractn, particularly ntrast to sexual orientatn, genr inty refers to a person's ternal sense of beg mascule, feme, or androgyno.
JUDY SHEPARD ON GAY SUICIS
Although precise numbers are lackg, one survey of 515 self-intified transgenr persons found that 31% of male-to-female rponnts and 65% of female-to-male rponnts intified as gay, lbian, or bisexual (Clements-Nolle, Marx, Guzman, & Katz, 2001) this article, we foc first on summarizg the accumulated rearch lerature on suicidal behavr and suici risk lbian, gay, and bisexual people. Consistent wh wispread age the rearch lerature, we equently e the acronyms LGB (lbian, gay, bisexual) and LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr) while regnizg that they do not aquately reflect the heterogeney of self-intifitns or behavrs wh the populatns. In any se, nclns based on the small numbers reported mt be regard as San Diego study lacked a livg ntrol group and has been cricized based on the rearchers’ assumptn that the 11% of young male suici cents who were intified as gay approximated the expected prevalence rate for young gay men the populatn unr study (McDaniel, Purcell, & D'Augelli, 2001).
Usg a more likely prevalence rate of 3–4% would have suggted that young gay men were overreprented among suici cents by a factor of at least studi have ed Denmark's extensive registri of val statistics and other socmographic data to exame whether people same-sex registered domtic partnerships (a proxy ditor of sexual orientatn) were overreprented among suici cents. A recent meta-analysis of 25 ternatnal populatn-based studi that measured suicidal behavr LGB adolcents and/or adults (varly fed) nclud that the lifetime prevalence of suici attempt gay/bisexual mal was about four tim that of parable heterosexual mal (Kg et al., 2008).