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:
- EXPERIENC OF LIGHT GAY AND LBIAN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENC
- THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
EXPERIENC OF LIGHT GAY AND LBIAN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENC
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Suici is the send leadg e of ath among young people aged 10 to 24 (Hegaard, Curt, & Warner, 2018) — and lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng (LGBTQ) youth are at signifintly creased youth are more than four tim as likely to attempt suici than their peers (Johns et al., 2019; Johns et al., 2020) Trevor Project timat that more than 1. Among gay or lbian youth, 37% serly nsired suici and 19% attempted.
Journal of Gay & Lbian Mental Health, 21(3), 194–202.
THE HEARTBREAKG TE STORY OF THE GAY TEEN AND HIS DAD BEHD ‘JOE BELL’
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Associatn of sexual orientatn acceptance wh rced suici attempts among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and qutng youth. Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr youth and fay acceptance. (2003) Prejudice, social strs, and mental health lbian, gay, bisexual populatns: Conceptual issu and rearch evince.
Fay rejectn as a predictor of negative health out whe and Lato lbian, gay, and bisexual young adults. High school gay–straight allianc (GSAs) and young adult well-beg: An examatn of GSA prence, participatn, and perceived effectivens.
Gay and bisexual men are four tim more likely to attempt suici their lifetime than heterosexual men. Rearchers now timate that suici kills more gay and bisexual men than AIDS.
Death vtigators Utah are among a handful of groups tryg to learn how many gay and transgenr people die by suici the Uned Stat. * gay and die *
Gay and bisexual men are rarely mentned mental health polici.
Homophobia — wh fai, schools, muni and even doctors and unsellors offic — is a key e, acrdg to the Still Here project wh the Men’s Health Rearch Program at the Universy of Brish Columbia. As a postdoctoral rearch fellow nursg at the Universy of Brish Columbia, I work on the Still Here project to engage gay and bisexual men who have prevly stggled wh suici (or who have lost another gay or bisexual man to suici) to tell their stori through photographs. Twenty-ne gay and bisexual men have participated Still Here th far, ntributg more than 300 photographs.
"Joe Bell" is a new movie that tells the heartbreakg te story of Jad Bell, a gay teen who died by suici, and his father's walk his memory. * gay and die *
Together, the photos and stori are helpg better unrstand the multiple factors that lead gay and bisexual men to nsir suici.
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