The Homosexuality Factor in the Youth Suicide Problem

Presented at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention, Banff, Alberta, October 11-14, 1995, (c) Oct 1995.

• Abstract, and Addendum
• Key Words: gay youth, lesbian youth, attempted suicide, suicide, youth problems, sexual abuse, male homosexuality demographic data.

• Introduction
• History of the Suicide Problem in Gay Communities
• The Gay and Bisexual Male Attempted Suicide Problem: 1930-1995
• The Bagley(1994) Confirmation of the Gay and Bisexual Male Over-Representation in the Male Youth Attempted Suicide Problem
• The Suicide Attempt Problem for Lesbian and Bisexual Female Youth, and for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual youth of Colour
• The Suicide Problem for Gay and Bisexual Males
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements

• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Bibliography
• Endnotes
• Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Tables 1, 2, 3, 4