Jimmy Owen As Suicide Prevention Month begins, a report from the Williams Institute discusses stats in the LGBTQ community Tammye Nash | Managing Editornash@dallasvoice.com Every day, according to the Centers for Disease Control, about 123 Americans die by suicide.
That means there is one death by suicide every 12 minutes in this country. And that makes suicide the 10th leading cause of death for Americans.
And for LGBTQ Americans, the percentages appear to be even higher, thanks to the constant discrimination and victmization the community faces.
This week, as National Suicide Prevention Month began, the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law released a summary of current data on suicidality among LGBTQ people.